Warriors’ Steve Kerr confident Mike Brown will help Kings snap 16-year historic postseason drought

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr is sticking as much as his perception that former assistant and now head coach Mike Brown can lead the Sacramento Kings again to the postseason prominence.

The Kings have been within the NBA’s peculiar place for 16 years, now having the worst playoff drought throughout 4 main American skilled sports activities leagues after the MLB’s Seattle Mariners snapped their over 21-year shedding seasons earlier this month.

 But now beneath the brand new steerage of Brown, Kerr has nothing however optimism on the franchise’s fortunes transferring ahead.

“Thrilled for him,” Kerr mentioned about Brown following the Dubs’ 130-125 win over the Kings, in courtesy of Sacramento Bee’s Jason Anderson. “It’s a great opportunity. A lot of good, young talent in Sacramento. I’ve watched them a few times in preseason and early on, and he’s got them playing hard and playing at a high level. I know they lost two close games so far, but they look good, and I think Mike’s going to do a great job there.”

The Kings certainly includes a promising expertise spearheaded by De’Aaron Fox, Domantas Sabonis and Keegan Murray, as they even gave an enormous scare in entrance of the Chase Center spectators on Sunday.

Though the Warriors established a big lead and an 89-point first half rating card – third-most factors in a half in franchise historical past – the Kings fought their means again till the tip. They sparked off a 15-1 blitz down within the fourth and even splitted the Dubs’ margin to four-point lead over a minute remaining. But because of Jordan Poole’s free-throws and Andrew Wiggins’ thunderous transition dunk, the defending champs managed to take care of that grip en path to their second win of the season.

“They did a good job getting back into the game, but we won, so I’m looking at the positive,” Kerr mentioned. “We played, at times, brilliantly, and we couldn’t sustain it. It was closer than it should have been, but I give Sacramento a lot of credit.

“Mike is doing a great job with those guys. They are fighting. They’re competing. They’ve had three close losses now to start the year. They’ve gotten a lot better and we let our guard down and they took advantage of it, but we got the win and I’m pleased with that.”

Prior to the match, Golden State performed a pregame ceremony for Brown and Leandro Barbosa to obtain their championship rings – honoring their contributions on the staff’s title quest final season.