Mike Brown (basketball, born 1970)

Mike Brown

Brown coaching the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2008
Sacramento Kings
Position	Head coach
League	NBA
Personal information
Born	(1970-03-05) March 5, 1970 (age 54) Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school	Würzburg American (Würzburg, Germany)
College	Mesa CC (1988–1990) San Diego (1990–1992)
NBA draft	1992: undrafted
Position	Guard
Coaching career	1997–present
Career history
As coach:
1997–1999	Washington Wizards (assistant)
2000–2003	San Antonio Spurs (assistant)
2003–2005	Indiana Pacers (assistant)
2005–2010	Cleveland Cavaliers
2011–2012	Los Angeles Lakers
2013–2014	Cleveland Cavaliers
2016–2022	Golden State Warriors (associate HC)
2022–present	Sacramento Kings
Career highlights and awards
As head coach: 2× NBA Coach of the Year (2009, 2023) NBCA Coach of the Year (2023) NBA All-Star Game head coach (2009) As assistant coach: 4× NBA champion (2003, 2017, 2018, 2022)

Michael Burton Brown^[1] (born March 5, 1970) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Brown was previously the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Los Angeles Lakers, and most recently an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors. He is also the head coach of the Nigerian national team.

Brown began coaching the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2005. The team reached the 2007 NBA Finals, where they were swept by the San Antonio Spurs. Brown was honored as NBA Coach of the Year for leading the Cavaliers to a team-record and league-best 66 wins in 2009. The Cavaliers won 61 games, again a league-best, in 2010. However, after the Cavaliers lost to the Boston Celtics in the 2010 Eastern Conference semifinals, Brown was fired. Brown succeeded Phil Jackson as the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers in 2011 before being dismissed five games into the 2012–13 season. He returned to the Cavaliers in 2013, but was fired after one season. Brown then joined the Golden State Warriors as associate head coach in 2016; the team went on to defeat the Cavaliers in the 2017 and 2018 NBA Finals, and the Boston Celtics in the 2022 NBA Finals.

He departed from the Warriors in 2022 to become the head coach of the Sacramento Kings. In his first year as head coach, Brown led the Kings to their first playoff appearance in 17 years, snapping the longest playoff drought in NBA history. For his efforts, Brown became the first-ever unanimous NBA Coach of the Year award winner and was named to the NBCA Coach of the Year award in 2023.