Mike Brown Biography
American basketball coach, Michael Burton Brown was born on March 5th, 1970 in Columbus, Ohio in the United States of America.
He excelled in basketball and football while attending Würzburg American High School in Würzburg, Germany, where he graduated in 1988.
Brown transferred to the University of San Diego after spending two years studying and playing basketball at Mesa Community College.
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There, he played two seasons of collegiate basketball for the San Diego Toreros and earned a Bachelor of Business Management degree in 1992.
Mike Brown career
Brown is the National Basketball Association’s head coach of the Sacramento Kings (NBA).
Brown has served as the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and most recently, the Golden State Warriors. He is also the Nigerian national team’s head coach.
In 2005, Brown took over as the Cleveland Cavaliers’ head coach. The club advanced to the NBA Finals in 2007, but the San Antonio Spurs defeated them in straight games.
A team record and league-best 66 victories for the Cavaliers in 2009 earned Brown the title of NBA Coach of the Year.
In 2010, the Cavaliers won 61 games, which was again a league high. Brown was sacked, nevertheless, after the Cavaliers were defeated by the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals in 2010.
Before being fired five games into the 2012–13 season, Brown took over as the Los Angeles Lakers’ head coach when Phil Jackson retired in 2011.
In 2013, he rejoined the Cavs, but was let go after just one season. The Golden State Warriors went on to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals of 2017 and 2018 as well as the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals of 2022 after Brown joined the club in 2016 as assistant head coach.
In 2022, he left the Warriors to take the helm as coach of the Sacramento Kings. The Kings made the playoffs for the first time in 17 years under Brown’s leadership in his first season as head coach, ending the longest playoff drought in NBA history.
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Mike Brown net worth
Mike Brown has a net worth estimated to be about $12 million.
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