The Kings have offered incumbent head coach Mike Brown a three-year, $21M contract extension that would keep him under team control through the 2026-27 season, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (via Twitter).
Brown, who is seeking something in the neighborhood of $10M annually, has not agreed to the deal thus far, Charania adds.
As Kurt Helin of NBC Sports notes (Twitter link), the offer represents half the per-season value of Clippers coach Tyronn Lue‘s just-signed five-year extension worth around $70M, and for two fewer years.
Sacramento has gone 94-70 during its two regular seasons under Brown, and has made the postseason both times.
Brown was named the league’s Coach of the Year (for the second time in his career) for returning the Kings to the playoffs for the first time in 16 seasons during a charmed 2022-23 run that saw the team finish with a 48-34 record and the Western Conference’s third seed. The Kings fell in seven games to the No. 6-seeded Warriors that spring.
In 2023-24, the 46-36 Kings were merely the No. 9 seed in a more crowded West and did not advance beyond the play-in tournament, although they did beat the No. 10-seeded Warriors in their first play-in game.
Prior to his Kings tenure, Brown served as the associate head coach for Golden State from 2016-22, winning three titles under head coach Steve Kerr. Before that, he had served two stints as the head coach of the Cavaliers, making one Finals appearance, and the Lakers. He boasts a 441-286 overall regular season record as a head coach, plus a 50-40 playoff record.
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