Are Kings seriously playing hardball with Mike Brown? 2023 Coach of the Year wants $10M annually, per report

Are the Sacramento Kings serious? One day after Los Angeles Cilppers coach Tyronn Lue signed a contract extension reportedly worth about $70 million over five years, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported that the Kings have offered coach Mike Brown an extension worth $21 million over three years, with bonuses that could bump that number to $27 million.

Brown wants around $10 million annually, per The Athletic. This jibes with previous reporting from Yahoo’s Jake Fischer and The Athletic’s Sam Amick and Anthony Slater.

For context, in addition to the Lue deal, here are some recent head-coaching contracts:

Monty Williams, Detroit Pistons: Six years, $78.5 million ($13.1 million per year)Gregg Popovich, San Antonio Spurs: Five years, more than $80 million (more than $16 million per year)Doc Rivers, Milwaukee Bucks: Three and a half years, $40 million ($11.4 million per year)Erik Spoelstra, Miami Heat: Eight years, more than $120 million (more than $15 million per year)
Steve Kerr, Golden State Warriors: Two years, $35 million ($17.5 million per year)Mike Budenholzer, Phoenix Suns: Five years, more than $50 million (more than $10 million per year)

Last week, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Sacramento and Brown had tabled extension talks and The Kings Beat’s James Ham reported that the Kings’ “failure to repeat the success of [2022-23] hasn’t sat well with ownership.” Hmm!

A quick refresher on the Brown era: Two years ago, in his first season in Sacramento, Brown became the first unanimous winner of the Coach of the Year award. The Kings finished No. 3 in the Western Conference with a 48-34 record and the best offense in the NBA before losing to the Golden State Warriors in seven games in the first round. In Brown’s second season, Sacramento won only two fewer games (46-36), but dropped all the way to No. 9 in the West. It beat the Warriors in its first play-in game, then lost to the New Orleans Pelicans and failed to qualify for the playoffs.

The 2023-24 season was not ideal for the Kings. They went from a historically dominant…

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Author : James Herbert

Publish date : 2024-05-31 16:44:55

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