Stephen Curry scored 50 in the winner-take-all Game 7 on the Kings’ home court as the Warriors became the first defending champion to come back from a 2-0 deficit to win a postseason series. The organization was terrific this year and you wish you could’ve gotten more, especially for the city and for the fans, but nobody in our organization should be dropping their heads right now.” “I’ve got a lot of gratitude for every man in that locker room, not just the players, but the medical performance staff, the coaching staff and everybody else in the front office.
Our guys are definitely hurting right now, which obviously they should be,” Brown said. “We’ll be better from this experience going forward. You take that and you build off of it.”īut Sacramento will have to wait until next season for another chance to Light the Beam, and Brown took a moment to thank the Kings’ loyal supporters who helped so much during his team’s triumphant return to the playoff stage. You got to feel what it was like to play against a team who’s a championship contender just about year in and year out.
This is a lot of our first times in the postseason. We learned a lot and you just try to build off that. “I feel like we learned a lot this series, and like I said, that’s why this is a blessing and a curse to play against this team in the first round. “Whoever’s back next year, we’re still a relatively young team,” he said. “We’ll live with whatever happens,” Brown would say.įinally back in the postseason after a 16-year drought, the Kings played the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors down to the wire before falling 120-100 in Game 7 of their first-round series Sunday to end this special season.įox praised the Kings for their fight and growth. They were mostly playoff first-timers after all. That’s the only way you learn in the big moments, Brown repeated time and again.
The NBA coach of the year showed the utmost confidence in De’Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis to take whatever shots they liked and not worry about the results as long as they were making smart decisions with the ball. He instructed rookie Keegan Murray to “let it fly” when his shot wasn’t falling. (AP) - Through every playoff triumph and every glaring mistake, Mike Brown stuck by his young Sacramento Kings knowing how much all of these moments will mean for the future.
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