{"id":88662,"date":"2025-07-24T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88662\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:53:08","slug":"inside-knicks-coach-mike-browns-history-with-nba-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88662\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Knicks coach Mike Brown&#8217;s history with NBA superstars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kobe Bryant once famously said that he expected Mike Brown to be \u201ca pushover\u201d based on previous reputation, but that he was pleased to quickly discover that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>This was early in the 2011-12 season, Brown\u2019s first with the Lakers after spending five years coaching LeBron James with the Cavaliers, including one trip to the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>When Brown publicly called out Bryant \u2014 a five-time NBA champion and former league MVP \u2014 for a defensive mistake following one December defeat, Kobe shrugged and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/los-angeles\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/7374434\/kobe-bryant-says-new-los-angeles-lakers-coach-mike-brown-not-pushover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made it clear he was on board with such criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019ve heard about him was he was a pushover, he doesn\u2019t say what he\u2019s thinking and all this other sorts of stuff. I haven\u2019t seen that at all,\u201d Bryant said. \u201cHe\u2019s been the complete opposite. He\u2019s been detail-oriented, he\u2019s been up front and open and honest. He praises guys when they do well, he jumps on them when they\u2019re messing up right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant once famously said that he expected Mike Brown to be \u201ca pushover\u201d based on previous reputation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[7200,40142,28459,3363,3141,24282,1260,3122,2229,3143,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-88662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-deaaron-fox","9":"tag-inside-the-knicks","10":"tag-kobe-bryant","11":"tag-lebron-james","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-mike-brown","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","17":"tag-sacramento-kings","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114908313096181546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}