Report: Kings, Brown agree to three-year, $30M extension originally appeared in NBC Sports Bay Area
Mike Brown isn’t leaving Sacramento anytime soon.
Brown and the Kings have agreed to a three-year, $30 million contract extension through the 2026-2027 NBA season, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Friday, citing sources.
Sacramento coach Mike Brown has agreed to a three-year, $30 million contract extension through the 2026-27 season, sources said @TheAthletic @Stadium.
-Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 1, 2024
The 54-year-old coach has a 94-70 regular season record during his two seasons in Sacramento and was instrumental in ending the Kings’ 16-year playoff drought, finishing the 2022-23 NBA season as the No. 3 seed. in the Western Conference.
Friday’s news comes a week after ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Brown and the Kings had “negotiations presented” around a possible contract extension.
On Thursday, Charania reported that the Kings extended a three-year contract offer to Brown worth up to $27 million, with the 54-year-old coach seeking a deal worth at least $10 million per season, which he I would have gotten it on Friday.
The Kings finished the 2023-24 season with a 46-36 record, earning them the ninth seed in the Western Conference. Sacramento dispatched the Golden State Warriors in the first game of the play-in tournament before suffering a season-ending loss to the New Orleans Pelicans.
Despite failing to earn back-to-back playoff berths, Brown created a winning culture that the Kings organization had long craved, establishing Sacramento as a legitimate threat in the Western Conference for the first time in nearly two decades.
Now, Brown and the Kings can turn their focus to taking the next step and making a deep playoff run as Sacramento seeks its first NBA championship since the team moved to California’s capital.
