The Sacramento Kings just fired Mike Brown right before the team boarded a flight to LA. He just ran a full practice and spent 15 minutes talking to the media.
Just bad man. Bad bad bad.
Domantas Sabonis hit with a super soft technical foul after "fouling" Anthony Davis.
Looks like Sabonis is telling the officials his frustration was directed at his teammates.
De'Aaron Fox flew out three of the top high school women's basketball stars in the country; Jacy Abii, Bella Flemings & Leona Sneed to Sacramento to help with his camp and get in a workout, led by Kings assistant coach Luke Loucks.
Kinda a cool moment pregame. Russell Westbrook has talked a lot about how grateful and blessed he is to be playing his 18th NBA season.
You can see him looking around the crowd, seemingly taking it all in before tonight's start vs the Atlanta Hawks.
A very emotional Mike Brown isn't talking basketball tonight. He spends his press conference passionately speaking on tonight's mass shooting in Maine.
His full press conference:
This is embarrassing from Adam Silver.
1. After working for years to make regular season games matter, you are basically saying they dont matter enough to watch other than highlights.
2. This comes off as telling the priced-out consumer "I don't care if you can't afford to
Adam Silver was asked about the rising cost to watch a season of NBA games as a fan of a particular team, considering all the games on either cable or streaming services. He said that there a bunch of games that will go on free, broadcast TV, and that fans can also consume the
These were Mike Brown's first words as the head coach of the Sacramento Kings. He preached accountability & togetherness on all levels of the organization. Less than a year later, he ended the longest playoff drought in NBA history.
The Kings really just fired him.
It's nuts that the Kings traded De'Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs and didn't get one of Castle, Vassell, Sohan or Keldon Johnson back.
NOT A SINGLE ONE.