Because the Sacramento Kings continued to wrestle, Mike Brown grew to become more and more stern in his postgame information conferences. These messages Brown was sending by the media started to put on on some gamers and performed a component within the determination to fireplace him, sources inform The Athletic.
Brown’s last postgame press convention was largely directed at De’Aaron Fox and got here a couple of days after his future with the franchise got here into query.
Reporters noticed Brown talking with Fox for an prolonged dialogue after Friday’s apply, which sport roughly 90 minutes earlier than he was fired by the Kings.
“Once you undergo adversarial occasions, you already know who was actually there for you,” Brown stated in his last media session as Kings head coach. “Folks will bounce off the bandwagon fast. The help, wherever it could come from, it could not all the time be there. However that’s a part of what I’ve to cope with, not simply from myself however holding everybody collectively. I’m OK with anyone criticizing me. I receives a commission to deal with that. I receives a commission to get us by this. However whether or not it’s anybody that’s shut — workers, gamers, associates, household — you’ll have the ability to inform who jumped off after we had some making an attempt occasions. You all the time keep in mind that as you go ahead as a result of you already know who is actually within the foxhole with you and who isn’t. However on the finish of the day, you greatest imagine I’m going to deal with all of the smoke irrespective of the place that smoke comes from. That’s what I’m paid to do.”
