Mike Brown was Jordi Fernandez’s mentor in Sacramento, and the first-year Nets head coach was saddened to learn the Kings fired his close friend on Friday.
Brown was named the NBA’s Coach of the Year in 2023, but he was axed after the Kings got off to a 13-18 start this season.
“He’s just very good at what he does, in my opinion, one of the best. I would not be here without him,” Fernandez, who served as Brown’s ᴀssociate head coach from 2022-24, said before the Nets’ 96-87 loss to the Spurs at Barclays Center. “Obviously, to me, it’s really sad news, and I don’t like it. It’s part of the business. Things can go one way, where you think about a year and a half ago, he’s Coach of the Year, and now this situation happens.
<ʙuттon class="ʙuттon ʙuттon--modal-trigger" aria-label="Open the image in a modal." data-modal-image="34227447">Nets coach Jordi Fernandez says Mike Brown being fired as the Kings’ coach was “really sad news.”
“So I wasn’t there in the last few weeks, months, but Mike means a lot to me. Mike is, like I said, one of the best. And seeing this is something that, as we can all say, part of the business. But me, personally, I don’t like it.”
Fernandez, a native of Spain, added that the 54-year-old Brown “brought me to the U.S. and to work in the NBA all the way through last year.”
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