{"id":1263479,"date":"2022-12-09T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/09\/how-a-military-upbringing-for-mike-brown-is-helping-the-kings\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:29:13","slug":"how-a-military-upbringing-for-mike-brown-is-helping-the-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/09\/how-a-military-upbringing-for-mike-brown-is-helping-the-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"How a military upbringing for Mike Brown is helping the Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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epa10340768 Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown points out to the floor in a play against the Indiana Pacers during the second half of the NBA game at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, USA, 30 November 2022. EPA\/JOHN G. MABANGLO SHUTTERSTOCK OUT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sacramento Kings have been one of the more impressive teams on show in the NBA season thus far, boosting hopes that the California franchise can end a 16-year absence from the playoffs \u2013 the longest active spell away from the postseason of any NBA team.<\/p>\n

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The talk surrounding the Kings\u2019 success goes hand in hand with the culture coach Mike Brown is working to build. He left an assistant coaching position with the Golden State Warriors to start anew as Sacramento\u2019s 21st coach.<\/p>\n

Brown has revealed that his strict but mobile upbringing in a military family \u2013 which included living in Japan and Germany \u2013 has helped to shape the values he has as a coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cI attribute a lot of my success to my upbringing,\u201d Brown noted. \u201cThe values that [my parents] taught me helped me become the person who I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brown family lived on base surrounded by four-story apartment buildings, occupied by other military families where his father served more than 25 years in the Air Force. Despite the diversity between individual families, there was an overarching sense of unity.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody that lived in those buildings, their parents \u2014 their mom or their dad or both \u2014 were in the service,\u201d Brown explained. \u201cAnd because everybody was in the service, there was a commonality amongst the different families that were there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cEveryone looked out for one another\u2026 and so you took care of one another. So having that sense of community, togetherness, accountability \u2014 not just from your family but from other families \u2014 was really, really, really huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown continued, \u201cMy dad was enlisted \u2014 he wasn\u2019t an officer and so he had a few people above him \u2014 but the neat part about it is I never interacted a ton with his boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times he did his own thing and it wasn\u2019t like there was some drill sergeant above his head, yelling every five minutes for him to do this [or] do that. It was like he had the assignment to do and he went and he did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s father also encouraged his son\u2019s love of basketball \u2013 the NBA, and specifically the Kings, are the current beneficiaries of this: \u201cHe knew that I liked the game and I wanted to be as good as I can, [so] after dinner he would take me to the gym and he\u2019d rebound for me \u2014 time after time after time after time without complaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat type of work ethic, in my opinion, translated to me and what I\u2019m trying to accomplish not only with my family but also in my professional life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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