Everything you need to know about the NBA's Coach of the Year award can be summed up in Mike Brown's two-and-a-half-year tenure with the Sacramento Kings . The 2022-23 Kings won 48 games with a plus-2.6 net rating. The 2023-24 Kings won 46 games with a plus-1.8 net rating. The rosters were nearly identical. All eight players who played more than 1,000 minutes for the 2022-23 Kings were back on the team for the 2023-24 season. Brown more or less had two identical seasons. They were, at most, within the margin for error of one another. In 2023, Brown was chosen as Coach of the Year unanimously. In 2024, he did not receive a single vote.

This is not an award that honors coaching quality. Miami Heat maestro Erik Spoelstra has never won it. It's an award that honors performance relative to

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