Sacramento Kings And Mike Brown Contract: Not Much Optimism For Now
your report in the Kings beat subscribe today at the Kings beat.com really got the ball rolling on the Mike Brown contract discussion um Adrian wowski on Friday reported quote after engaging in contract extension discussions the Sacramento Kings and Coach Mike Brown have tabled talks there remains a golf on a potential deal for brown who has one guaranteed season left on his contract Mark Stein also reported along the lines backing up what you reported on Friday uh it appears that the combination of Browns this is from markstein it appears that the combination of Browns desire for a significant salary bump and the King’s postseason disappointments of the past uh two Springs have given his bosses pause yikes man yeah I don’t this is tough like look I you know again negotiating I isn’t a a great negotiating in the Press sure isn’t isn’t a great thing and like this has been brewing it’s been coming to ahead for a little while from what I could from what I know MH and we just we’re just now seeing it bleed out where you know initially you you kind of understood what Mike was looking for like I I think Amic and Slater wrote the number as like 10 to 12 million uh we saw that’s what they were hoping to negotiate around um we saw from Jake fiser last week a week and a half ago that you know they were hoping to have a contract around the uh what was it eight figure number um which again you know whether that’s 10 or 11 million whatever it might be um but again those were just what the parameters of negotiations were expected to be around I don’t think that that’s where the Sacramento Kings uh plan on uh having those discussions be around um and maybe they’ve come up a little bit from their previous offers and maybe that’s a good thing maybe there’s some momentum as far as the dollar amount but I also think that there’s uh I don’t think the two sides are on the same page when it comes to years as well and so uh the kings are a franchise that multiple times during the time I’ve covered the team have been paying you know two three coaches head coaches at one time because they’ve fired so many from the previous years that had four four-year contracts or fiveyear contracts or still had two years remaining on their deal when they got let go and so you still have to keep paying those contracts no doubt and then you hire a new coach and now you got two contracts you’re paying then you pay another coach you can get up you know it can get a little ugly but at this point um like look I I like ownership wasn’t super happy about the way the season ended and that’s in in general that wasn’t just aimed at Mike that was in general like they’re they’re not super happy that they didn’t get a playoff run that they didn’t grow from the previous year that um that they didn’t get to sell playoff tickets uh and all that stuff like in the way that they would have liked to um and and so like look this is going to be a situation that I’m not sure like there isn’t like some super positive like this is heading the right direction from from everything that I’m hearing and I don’t know if it gets done or not like it and then again someone could wake up today and say you know what let’s just do this thing let’s just get it over with because like it’s part of doing business in the NBA and I know there’s a lot of conversation out there about how much the franchise has raised in value over the last few years we had some people you know in the chat yesterday when we had the king speed podcast um who you know pointed out that the king’s franchise valuation since making the playoffs has jumped like over 300 over three billion dollars um and it’s jumped up a ton a and so like the positive momentum that Mike Brown has something to do with that uh also TV contracts and everything else have something to do with that um but also just like there’s a reality that has to be in place here that if it’s not Mike Brown then who and and if it’s not if it’s not8 to 12 million a year then what are you doing because that’s the new going rate for head coaches and like at some point whether it’s Mike or someone else that’s what you’re going to be paying and the guys again we can keep saying this but I I don’t think people in the back are are hearing it like this team has been over 500 10 times in their 39 years in Sacramento eight of those are Rick Adelman two of those are Mike Brown straight up he ran an 18 game improvement over the previous year in his first year coaching the the team he took a two two game step back in year two but still ran 46 wins I mean this is a team that should be on the rise that has a positive vibe going about it that has a culture of that’s building and a lot of that is the Mike Brown culture and I’m confused why that’s not being embraced as much as it is hey X’s and O’s or or a couple of wins here a couple of wins there and this thing could have totally looked different this year yeah man that’s my problem with this is it’s not about the dollars it’s not about the years it’s that the Kings at all would sit here and look at this because here’s how I read it from the Kings perspective everything you just said about well if you give a guy a four-year contract and you fire him in year two of that deal you owe him x amount of dollars over the next two years because you have to pay them out you have to pay out that contract which to me says the kings are concerned about the direction the team is going or the direction they went this year whatever it is and instead of paying Mike Brown up front and saying you are building a program here is the going rate for an NBA head coach uh there are is a really easy comp with Mike buen holder and what he just got uh what he get 10 a year he got a fiveyear 50 10 a year five right so five and 50 okay you don’t want to give him 10 because Mike buen holer has a title so you want to make it nine or whatever it is I don’t I don’t care like I said the the the problem for me is the commitment because this basically says the kings are saying we don’t want to pay the going right for a head coach and if I’m wrong on this please let me know I’m viewing this from from a space that you’re not um the the Kings don’t want to pay a head coach because if they miss the playoffs next year they don’t want to move forward with Mike Brown or if they don’t make the growth that they think they should be making then they don’t want to move forward with that coach which is why they don’t want to give him a sizable contract because they don’t trust him enough to stick around for the length of that contract yeah I would say that as much as it is about the dollar for year one or year it’s the length of the contract that is always going to be in question which is asinine to me they’re not they’re not that to me says their concern and and their priority is not building a program is not having continuity and is not saying great here is this we have given Mike Brown and Monty McNair this roster and let’s see where this thing goes over the next four to five years I guess if you include the last year six to seven years and let’s see what this can grow into it’s I need success now yes and if I don’t have it now then we’ll find somebody else and that in itself creates a whole bunch of other problems with players who signed up to play her under Mike Brown and with players like Malik monk who may or may not be signing up to play her for Mike Brown yes and that’s like I said that the dollars don’t even necessarily matter it’s the unwillingness to commit to a coach who has had success like what are you doing why is it here yeah it’s it’s the inability to commit to the plan like you chose a path yes right you chose a path they did they did everything right to this point yeah and look there could come a point I’ve said this before there could come a point where Mike Brown can’t get you over the hump where he’s a coach that you think okay like let’s just say the kings make it to the Western Conference Finals once or twice but you can’t get over the hump and you say okay I might need a coach that can get us over the hump and and I don’t even know what that coach would look like to be honest with you but there might be some coach out there that you think okay this guy might be the guy who has a couple of championship rings and and can push us over the top in the right situation we just aren’t there yet we’re not even close to that like you’re trying to build a program and and that has to be from top down like there has to be an identity of what that program looks like a way that you’re developing players a way that you’re you’re bringing in players for offseason the way that you’re building your training camp uh roster the way you’re building everything it has to be a program a a plan that’s in place to have everybody moving in the right direction and I don’t know that we’re quite there yet I think that there’s an idea of what a program looks like from a couple of sides and then you know this isn’t just a coach and a general manager a there’s also ownership involved and so there’s all of these different Avenues and they all have to be on the same page for the Synergy has to work for this thing to move forward and as of right now I don’t know where how close we are to finding that Synergy and I I think it’s a shame me too my concern when you say when you when as we talk about this and we’ll we’ll continue talking about this kind of throughout Today’s show but I I I know VC comes from Golden State and I know that there have been so many things where he’s tried to kind of replicate what they did in Golden State and my biggest fear with this is that he looks at Mike Brown as Mark Jackson in this situation where the sooner they get out from under this coach the sooner they can really take off yeah and that I again maybe this is a negotiation tactic and maybe cooler heads will prevail in August and or they get together at summer league and they hash this thing out and Mike Brown’s got a four-year deal by the time the season starts but there are just so many things that have led up to this point that make me really really wary of being optimistic that that’s going to happen I I think that that’s realistically the problem it’s it’s the history here and like look you can compare yourself to the warri is all you want if you’re willing to pay that tax bill and put that type of Talent on the court then you can start worrying about whether your head coach is the the problem or not that’s it but until you do that which hasn’t happened yet I I don’t think you got the right man for the job right now
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I know you guys don’t know a lot, but he’ll get his contract