\n\t<\/aside>\n\u201cWhen it happened, you process it real quickly and then literally my wife and I, we went to Australia for UFC 313,\u201d Brown said. \u201cWe went to hang out in Brooklyn, we hung out in Puerto Vallarta [in Mexico], and then we went to St. Barts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI probably shouldn\u2019t say all that. \u2026 But in this life, you\u2019ve gotta keep moving forward. You can really beat yourself up if you try to guess what should have happened, why it happened, all that stuff. Life is short.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown has experience moving on after getting fired four times as an NBA coach, although the last dismissal from Sacramento felt the most abrupt or unwarranted. <\/p>\n\n<\/aside>\nAnd it was probably even easier to reflect positively Tuesday, with Brown standing after practice at his old home Golden 1 Center on the eve of his first game against the Kings since getting canned just a year ago.<\/p>\n
After all, Brown recovered quickly and fortuitously. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s guiding a championship hopeful with the Knicks (25-14), who are on pace for a third straight season of 50 wins or more. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s no longer coaching the Kings (10-30), who are playing better lately with a current two-game winning streak but remain a huge disappointment since Brown left.<\/p>\n
The coach came out of the ordeal looking better. <\/p>\nMike Brown shouts out instructions during the Knicks\u2019 loss to the Suns on Jan. 9, 2026. AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Kings, meanwhile, look much worse with Doug Christie steering the ship.<\/p>\n
There weren\u2019t regrets upon reflection Tuesday \u2014 only a hope the roster was healthier.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur first year we won 48 [games], and this is my personal two cents: if Kevin [Huerter] doesn\u2019t get hurt [with] two months to go and Malik [Monk] doesn\u2019t get hurt [with] a month to go, we probably win 50 that second year and then we\u2019re in the playoffs,\u201d Brown said. \u201cSo first year we played injury free, second year we got hit with the injury bug especially late, a starter and our sixth man. If there\u2019s anything I regret, I know I had no control over that, and neither did the guys, but I wish we were injury free at least at the end of the season to give ourselves a better chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Brown is fortunate the Kings didn\u2019t crater his future as an NBA coach. <\/p>\n\n\n