Mike Brown agrees to sign new contract with Sacramento Kings

Sacramento Kings are set to sign a contract extension with Mike Brown keeping him until the 2026/27 NBA season. According to reports, in the 2024/25 contract, he gets $4.5 million, but now the new contract gives him an $8.5 million raise. He won the NBA Coach of the Year award in the 2022/23 NBA Season. Mike Brown has played a big role for the Sacramento Kings over the past two seasons. Sacramento Kings won 94 games and lost 70 ending their 16 years of long wait in playoffs. 

They last appeared in playoffs in 2006. This season Sacramento Kings finished the season with 46 wins and 36 loss and finished on night position and were in a play-in spot. They won the Play-in tournament against Golden State Warriors but couldn’t get pass through New Orleans Pelicans

 Since the franchise came to Sacramento Kings in 1985, only Brown and Rick Adelman have led the Kings to a winning season. Brown has a 441-286 career record for Cleveland, the Los Angeles Lakers, and Sacramento. This season's No. 9 seed, the Kings defeated the Warriors in the play-in tournament before being eliminated by the New Orleans Pelicans.

Sacramento Kings possesses the 13th overall choice in the 2024 NBA draft

Brown is the first Kings coach to have a winning record in his first two seasons since Rick Adelman from 1998-2000. As per reports Sacramento Kings had offered Brown a three-year, $21 million contract with bonuses that could total $27 million, with Brown asking $10 million per year. According to the data released on Friday, Brown, who was due to earn $4.5 million next year, received the majority of his requests.

At the very least, Sacramento possesses the 13th overall choice in the 2024 NBA draft. There are additional contracts that might be shifted, such as those of Harrison Barnes and Kevin Huerter, while Malik Monk is scheduled to enter free agency.