Timing of Kings firing Brown raises several important questions

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Timing of Kings firing Brown raises several important questions originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Just six months ago, De’Aaron Fox spoke to Sacramento media about how grateful he was to finally have something that had been lacking throughout his then-seven-year NBA career with the Kings.

Stability.

His comments came after Mike Brown, who entered the 2024-25 NBA season with one year remaining on his original Kings contract, signed a three-year extension to remain the man in charge through the 2026-27 season.

Instead, 163 days after signing that multiyear extension, Brown was fired following a 13-18 start to the season that reached a new low point with a 0-5 homestand and losing 12 of their last 17 games. And instead of that stability Fox raved about, he’ll now experience his fifth coach in eight years while Sacramento sees its eighth since Vivek Ranadivé bought the team in 2013.

No coach has lasted more than three years under Ranadivé’s ownership.

Something needed to change, there’s no denying that. A team with Fox, DeMar DeRozan and Domantas Sabonis should be better than the No. 12 seed in the Western Conference.

But that change – at least right now – should not have been parting ways with the man who brought winning basketball back to Sacramento for the first time in nearly two decades.

Brown joined a Kings team that hadn’t been to the playoffs in 17 years. He left it almost two and a half years later with a 107-88 record, joining Rick Adelman (395-229) as the only two Kings coaches with winning records since the franchise moved to Sacramento in 1985. The team had 21 coaching changes in that span.

Brown’s 107 wins also are the ninth most in franchise history.

That wasn’t good enough, however, to Ranadivé and general manager Monte McNair.

But on the outside looking in, it seems the Kings don’t have a coaching problem – they have a personnel problem. Over the past two offseasons, they didn’t address their biggest concerns: Size and wing depth.

Keegan Murray has been the do-it-all wing the team has long dreamed of, but as a third-year 24-year-old, he needs some help. He has been tasked…

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Author : NBC Sports BayArea

Publish date : 2024-12-28 16:51:00

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