Knicks’ Mike Brown returns to scene of his unceremonious firing
NY Post
SACRAMENTO — Mike Brown didn’t stew at home after getting fired by the Kings. He took a trip.
Lots of them, actually.
“When it happened, you process it real quickly and then literally my wife and I, we went to Australia for UFC 313,” Brown said. “We went to hang out in Brooklyn, we hung out in Puerto Vallarta [in Mexico], and then we went to St. Barts.
“I probably shouldn’t say all that. … But in this life, you’ve 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.”
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.
And 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.
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