For your weekend listening pleasure
Kings coach Mike Brown tells Turner Sports' Chris Haynes and me many, many good tales about his first year in charge in The 916 soon after Sacramento clinched its first trip to the playoff in 17 years
On the day after Sacramento clinched its first playoff berth since the 2005-06 season, Turner Sports' Chris Haynes and I recorded a podcast with Kings coach Mike Brown.
It might have been our best podcast yet.
Brown was so open about so many things, taking us inside his coaching philosophy, his playbook, his locker room — even his phone. Subjects we covered in the pod that dropped Friday include:
🏀 How the Kings celebrated the achievement on the road in Portland
🏀 The challenges involved in trying to implement a new culture for a whole franchise
🏀 The jobs he didn’t get before landing Sacramento’s
🏀 Resetting for the playoffs and convincing his players that they haven’t achieved anything yet
🏀 The narrative about teams in the West like the Warriors and the Lakers wanting to play inexperienced Sacramento in Round 1
🏀 The video clip in his phone that he shared with the team about that narrative
🏀 Some of the X-and-O secrets to explain the Year 1 success of the De’Aaron Fox/Domantas Sabonis partnership
🏀 And more!
It's the usual jam-packed episode that hopefully fits into your weekend nicely.