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Sam Amick

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The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

They have not done that to this point, but he's not happy with the vision here or the path that they are on um the part that is tough to speak to is how much of the mike brown decision was truly player driven because everybody i talked to that was downplayed um the influence and the pressure applied by the players for the most part

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

They have not done that to this point, but he's not happy with the vision here or the path that they are on um the part that is tough to speak to is how much of the mike brown decision was truly player driven because everybody i talked to that was downplayed um the influence and the pressure applied by the players for the most part

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

was was secondary if that makes sense like you can't there's a lot of the stuff we all saw the press conferences matter it's tough to be that hard on players when you are losing yeah um by the way this gets glossed over too mike mike's an old school coach you know it's practicing every day it's having shoot-arounds every game day um that stuff flies when you are

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

was was secondary if that makes sense like you can't there's a lot of the stuff we all saw the press conferences matter it's tough to be that hard on players when you are losing yeah um by the way this gets glossed over too mike mike's an old school coach you know it's practicing every day it's having shoot-arounds every game day um that stuff flies when you are

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

was was secondary if that makes sense like you can't there's a lot of the stuff we all saw the press conferences matter it's tough to be that hard on players when you are losing yeah um by the way this gets glossed over too mike mike's an old school coach you know it's practicing every day it's having shoot-arounds every game day um that stuff flies when you are

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

kind of the bell of the ball and you're the beam team and everybody loves you but when you're losing games that stuff you know kind of wears thin um sabonis and brown were known to have a tricky relationship where demonus would push back a lot on mike uh and so some angst on that front but you have to also realize that

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

kind of the bell of the ball and you're the beam team and everybody loves you but when you're losing games that stuff you know kind of wears thin um sabonis and brown were known to have a tricky relationship where demonus would push back a lot on mike uh and so some angst on that front but you have to also realize that

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

kind of the bell of the ball and you're the beam team and everybody loves you but when you're losing games that stuff you know kind of wears thin um sabonis and brown were known to have a tricky relationship where demonus would push back a lot on mike uh and so some angst on that front but you have to also realize that

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

You know, Vivek Ranadive, the longtime owner of the Kings, who has been through so many coaches at this point, my feeling is that at least part of this calculus was him being concerned about De'Aaron's future. He does not want to lose De'Aaron Fox.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

You know, Vivek Ranadive, the longtime owner of the Kings, who has been through so many coaches at this point, my feeling is that at least part of this calculus was him being concerned about De'Aaron's future. He does not want to lose De'Aaron Fox.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

You know, Vivek Ranadive, the longtime owner of the Kings, who has been through so many coaches at this point, my feeling is that at least part of this calculus was him being concerned about De'Aaron's future. He does not want to lose De'Aaron Fox.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

In fairness to De'Aaron, who has pushed back on social media publicly about the idea that he played a part here, De'Aaron is not responsible for the organization fearing what he might do, if that makes sense. If they made choices based partly on that, that's not his fault. He's simply trying to figure out his situation. So a lot of layers to it. I think where I land, guys, we don't really get...

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

In fairness to De'Aaron, who has pushed back on social media publicly about the idea that he played a part here, De'Aaron is not responsible for the organization fearing what he might do, if that makes sense. If they made choices based partly on that, that's not his fault. He's simply trying to figure out his situation. So a lot of layers to it. I think where I land, guys, we don't really get...

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

In fairness to De'Aaron, who has pushed back on social media publicly about the idea that he played a part here, De'Aaron is not responsible for the organization fearing what he might do, if that makes sense. If they made choices based partly on that, that's not his fault. He's simply trying to figure out his situation. So a lot of layers to it. I think where I land, guys, we don't really get...

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

paid to pick sides here. We're trying to convey what happened. Mike Brown's a hell of a coach. If you look at the room and point the finger and say, yep, he's the problem right there, I would not agree with that. I like Doug Christie. I'm curious to see how he does as a coach. The roster is the roster. The roster has holes. This is not a good team. It has holes. You said it in your piece.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

paid to pick sides here. We're trying to convey what happened. Mike Brown's a hell of a coach. If you look at the room and point the finger and say, yep, he's the problem right there, I would not agree with that. I like Doug Christie. I'm curious to see how he does as a coach. The roster is the roster. The roster has holes. This is not a good team. It has holes. You said it in your piece.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

paid to pick sides here. We're trying to convey what happened. Mike Brown's a hell of a coach. If you look at the room and point the finger and say, yep, he's the problem right there, I would not agree with that. I like Doug Christie. I'm curious to see how he does as a coach. The roster is the roster. The roster has holes. This is not a good team. It has holes. You said it in your piece.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

um they're they're in a bind i mean they're very active on the trade market right now um and in fact even kind of in the days leading up to the mike brown firing i don't know all the specifics but i was told that they were you know they were pretty deep in some different trade stuff that where they were looking for something to change

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

um they're they're in a bind i mean they're very active on the trade market right now um and in fact even kind of in the days leading up to the mike brown firing i don't know all the specifics but i was told that they were you know they were pretty deep in some different trade stuff that where they were looking for something to change

The Athletic NBA Daily
Cavs on cruise control | Mike Brown’s final days with Kings

um they're they're in a bind i mean they're very active on the trade market right now um and in fact even kind of in the days leading up to the mike brown firing i don't know all the specifics but i was told that they were you know they were pretty deep in some different trade stuff that where they were looking for something to change