Mike Brown learned firsthand that “super teams” don’t inevitably produce super results.
At the start of his second season as the Lakers’ head coach in 2012, Brown was tasked with melding Dwight Howard and Steve Nash into a group that featured Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Easy, right? After Los Angeles stumbled to a 1-4 start with a $100 million payroll, Brown was fired.
Now, just four years later, he is the lead assistant coach for a Warriors team many consider the best collection of talent ever assembled.