AzulaKahn | Knicks

199 | 6 hours ago

As a head coach, hes made finals with the warriors as an assistant since then

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

9 | 6 hours ago

Is your username a reference to ATLA?

Longjumping_Kale3013

54 | 5 hours ago

Is yours a reference to craving vegetables?

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

33 | 5 hours ago

No, I have literal vegetable teeth.

Longjumping_Kale3013

13 | 5 hours ago

in that case your username is wrong. Should be Vegetable-teeth8463

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

37 | 4 hours ago

I’m down to just one now

ripkin05 | Hornets

1 | an hour ago

you know a lot more of your terrible takes in the hornets sub make a lot more sense when i picture this as you

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

1 | 42 minutes ago

LOL, what bad takes have I even given in the Hornets sub? I rarely give takes there.

mrspaintbrush | Mavericks

1 | 6 minutes ago

Its a rough place dont expect hugs

AzulaKahn | Knicks

9 | 4 hours ago

ATLA and Mortal Kombat lol

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

4 | 4 hours ago

Nice, you gonna see the movie?

AzulaKahn | Knicks

7 | 4 hours ago

The new MK or Avatar? Because yes and yes

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

4 | 4 hours ago

Mk, I didn’t know there was a new Avatar film coming out.

AzulaKahn | Knicks

3 | 4 hours ago

Yeah its supposed to be in September or October of this year. Its an animated movie

Either_Imagination_9 | Knicks

1 | 6 hours ago

Yes

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

11 | 6 hours ago

Wrong account lol

AzulaKahn | Knicks

5 | 4 hours ago

Thats not my account

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

2 | 4 hours ago

ah

TheStrongTaint

2 | 5 hours ago

Lmaoooo

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

186 | 6 hours ago

One thing I always respected about Mike Brown was, when he realized he wasn’t fit to be a Head Coach, he deliberately stepped back and spent time as an assistant under Kerr. I feel most people have too much of an ego to do that.

TyposIncoming | Lakers

149 | 6 hours ago

He had spent a decade as a head coach with three different stints as head coach at that point.

It’s not like he choose to be an assistant, nobody wanted to hire him to be a head coach at that point

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

23 | 6 hours ago

While that is possible, seeing how quickly fired coaches get rehired makes me think he could’ve gotten a new gig quicker if he had sought it out.

TyposIncoming | Lakers

36 | 6 hours ago

He did get rehired, twice. How many coaches get rehired after their third firing?

enigmatic_dankness

13 | 6 hours ago

I don’t think there’s any stat tracking on RPF (re-hires per firing)

shirokabocha-14 | Spurs

6 | 4 hours ago

I know a doctor that keeps getting away with it

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-19 | 6 hours ago

Did you seriously downvote me for giving a civil response? Lmao

Knickstape08 | NYK

5 | 3 hours ago

Nah he had a really bad run in 2013 and 2014 getting fired by 2 teams in less than 2 years. That type of run is what makes coaches have to sit a couple years as assistants.

p_pio

18 | 6 hours ago

He made conference final and had 2 60+ wins seasons in Cleveland.

His only full season in LA was solid and he was fired at the begining of the 2nd season which was generally mess of Kobe-Nash-Dwight Lakers.

Only really bad full season was return to Cleveland, and even then, he got Kyrie and that’s all. They made massive overhaul next season with LeBron return.

It would be strange if he really couldn’t find new job with that resume if he insisted.

Phenomenal2313 | Raptors

19 | 5 hours ago

I loved how the reason Brown was fired very early on during the Kobe/Dwight era was that they couldn’t run the fucking Princeton offense properly

TyposIncoming | Lakers

4 | 6 hours ago

That wouldn’t be strange at all. How many coaches ever get a 4th chance?

p_pio

6 | 6 hours ago

There are few.

Simple example: Don Nelson. Never made finals and never had over 60W season.

Mike Brown in 2014 made 1 final and had 2 such a seasons.

TyposIncoming | Lakers

-3 | 5 hours ago

Okay so you admit it’s not common

p_pio

4 | 5 hours ago

How many coaches made NBA finals? How many had 2 seasons with over 60W?

As I said: there are examples. Don Nelson. George Karl. Doc Rivers. Rick Carlisle. Butch van Breda Kolff to put not only HoFers. Etc, etc.

So it does happend, and Mike Brown in 2014 got resume on par with these coaches.

The_MadStork | NYK

1 | 5 hours ago

Doug Collins. Larry Brown. Even Frank Vogel had four. Plenty of others.

None of the guys either of us have mentioned have a winning percentage higher than Mike Brown’s

tore_a_bore_a | Warriors

1 | 3 hours ago

That 2nd Cleveland stint roster is wild looking at it

PG: 3rd year Kyrie Irivng

SG: 2nd year Dion Waiters / Jarrett Jack

SF: Luol Deng/ Alonzo Gee / CJ Miles

PF: 3rd year Tristan Thompaon

C: Andrew Bynum / Spencer Hawes / Anderson Varejao

mioraka | Raptors

1 | 35 minutes ago

I mean, wasn’t he getting paid by 3 teams, coaching 1 of them against the other 1 in the finals or something?

I’m my mind he’s always the legendary bag getter Mike Brown.

whydoesgodhateus

59 | 5 hours ago

I guess it doesn’t count “officially” but didn’t he coach most of the games in the 2017 playoffs when Kerr had back surgery?

refugee_man

25 | 5 hours ago

I thought that was Luke Walton?

Basic-Collection5416 | Pistons

25 | 4 hours ago

That was the year before. Walton filled in at the start of the 2016 season for their crazy win streak.

Knickstape08 | NYK

13 | 3 hours ago

It sucks for Walton he doesn’t officially get credit for those wins. He was the head coach for over half the season and was 39-4 yet Kerr won the coach of the year.

Piats99 | Spurs

1 | 30 minutes ago

All the credits to him, but as an assistant there’s for sure a hierarchy and it’s likely Walton was following Kerr’s orders from the training sessions and premade material set up before the games.

I’m sure Walton’s coaching schemes weren’t so different from what Kerr would have done in his place.

refugee_man

1 | 3 hours ago

My mistake, got them confused. I knew Walton got a ton of credit for taking over at one period

22797 | Warriors

10 | 3 hours ago

Kerr got back surgery in 2016 where Luke Walton started 39-4. Kerr had spinal fluid leak in 2017 but no surgery and Mike Brown coached from the start of the playoffs until game 2 of the finals.

Designer-Mobile-974 | Knicks

3 | 2 hours ago

Your team was so OP back in the day man

NBAccount | Warriors

4 | an hour ago

For any of us that were fans from before, that period feels like a fever dream now. New fans are all talking about how we are going to find a perfect piece that will let this team run off a couple more chips, but the older fans are all settling back in to the Baron Davis, Monta Ellis, Marco Belinelli era of being a perennial .500 team.

Deep-Possession-6290

35 | 6 hours ago

People clown coaches constantly but surviving multiple roster eras and still reaching the Finals deserves respect. That reminds me of when he coached James. They’re both still around today.

TyposIncoming | Lakers

-11 | 6 hours ago

but surviving multiple roster eras

This is his first year coaching the team…

theblackyeti | Knicks

9 | 6 hours ago

He was a head coach in 2007 and 2026. That is pre-Curry NBA and post-Curry NBA. He’s coached a team to the finals in both.

TyposIncoming | Lakers

8 | 5 hours ago

Sure but I wouldn’t refer to that as roster eras. I’d say NBA eras. Saying roster implies a team’s roster.

ZOOTV83 | Celtics

3 | 2 hours ago

Yeah roster eras would be like Spo leading the Heat to the Finals in both the Big Three era and then years later with Jimmy Butler & Co. Same franchise, totally different roster.

Equivalent-Poetry-98

2 | 6 hours ago

He meant like different era and play style of basketball displayed through the different types that came through in his career. Was around for the LeBron Heliocentric Cavs, then curry came and changed the whole outlook of basketball to take more than double the threes , now he’s playing with Kat adopting a point center role in the nba famously utilized atleast this century by Jokic ( I know dad sabonis was like a point center in the 90s). Mike has been able to adapt coaching around all these league trend changes.

It’s crazy hard to adapt to the league, and when he started games only took 12-13 threes a games and averaged 100 points or less, to see his offense where he came is great

Media-critique | Knicks

1 | 5 hours ago

The more I think about it, the more I realize these players possibly look up to Mike as a “father figure” in some ways considering how they all watched him on TV when they were kids.

Must’ve been harder for Mike to coach back then in a league that pretty much revolved around the BIG all-star and his supporting cast. Now he’s coaching with a bunch of moldable guys who have looked up to him. Must be a great feeling for those guys

Yellow_Evan | Lakers

10 | 5 hours ago

If there was ever any coach we fired prematurely it’s him.

SJCitizen | 76ers

6 | 4 hours ago

I always thought he got a raw deal in LA. His second Cleveland stint was kinda weird for both parties

eninety2

3 | 4 hours ago

I still remember vividly, him giving Lebron a kiss on the forehead. I think it was after that buzzer beater Lebron hit.

Brilliant_Rush9182

2 | 5 hours ago

Don’t let Doc Rivers see this

borfmantality | Wizards

2 | an hour ago

It would be downright hilarious if the Spurs make the finals and complete the circle by sweeping the Knicks, just like they did the Cavs in 2007.

Methamine | Knicks

1 | an hour ago

Carlilse went to the finals in 2011 before last year. Although Mike brown wasn’t coaching last year

Diabolicat | Supersonics

1 | 23 minutes ago

There’s no way 2007 was 19 years ago

Mike Brown set a record for the longest gap between finals appearances in NBA history as a coach