Mike Brown had one of the briefest tenures of any Los Angeles Lakers head coach, overseeing Kobe Bryant and the rest of the team’s roster for just for 83 regular season and playoff games combined, the 11th-shortest time any coach has ever run the team.
Brown was fired just five games into the 2012 regular season after the Lakers’ superteam of Bryant, Steve Nash, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard failed to be as fun as that infamous Sports Illustrated cover promised.
And it would be understandable if Brown was bitter about his tenure there after it ended in dysfunction and Bryant-death-stares.