A day after level guard De’Aaron Fox was named clutch participant of the 12 months within the NBA, the Sacramento Kings have acquired one other particular person award with Mike Brown voted the season’s finest coach.
Brown grew to become the primary coach in league historical past to unanimously win the award, receiving all 100 first-place votes from media members to beat out finalists Mark Daigneault, of the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Boston Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla.
Daigneault, who has overseen this season’s rise to prominence of Australia’s Josh Giddey on the Thunder, completed with 48 second-place votes and 164 factors, whereas Mazzulla tallied 18 and 77 respectively.
Brown, 53, is in his first season as coach of Matthew Dellavedova’s Kings after serving as an affiliate head coach for the Golden State Warriors from 2016-22.
He helped Sacramento again to the playoffs for the primary time since 2006, a 16-year drought which had been the longest post-season chilly spell in all 4 main North American sports activities leagues.
The Kings, who completed third within the Western Conference by going 48-34, at the moment maintain a 2-0 lead over Golden State of their first-round playoff sequence.
Game 3 is scheduled for Thursday evening (Friday AEST) in San Francisco.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
