Sacramento Kings coach Mike Brown has agreed on a contract extension that’ll take him by the 2026-2027 season with an annual increase to $8.5 million a season, his agent Warren LeGarie advised ESPN on Friday evening.
Brown — the 2022-2023 NBA Coach of the 12 months — will get a $4.5 million increase on his 2024-2025 contract and two new seasons at $8.5 million, LeGarie stated. Brown has performed a major half in bringing the Kings again to relevance with a 94-70 report the previous two seasons and the top of a 16-year playoff drought.
Brown and the Kings had briefly tabled talks, however either side have been decided to succeed in a deal that saved him with the franchise and landed there on Friday evening. Brown led the Kings to the Western Convention playoffs for the primary time in 16 years in 2022-23, steering Sacramento to a 48-34 report and the No. 3 seed within the Western Convention a yr in the past — ultimately shedding a seven-game opening-round collection to the Golden State Warriors.
The Kings have been a No. 9 seed this season, beating the Warriors within the play-in match earlier than the New Orleans Pelicans eradicated them.
Brown is the primary Kings coach to have a profitable report in every of his first two seasons with the franchise since Rick Adelman from 1998-2000, based on ESPN Stats & Info analysis.
Brown is a two-time NBA Coach of the 12 months — together with with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2009. Brown had two stops with the Cavaliers as head coach (305-187, .620) and a season-plus because the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers (42-29, .592).