After losing his NBA position earlier this year, former Sixers head coach Brett Brown has now elected to step down from his international coaching job as well. Brown has resigned from his role as Australia’s head coach and won’t lead the Boomers at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics, the program announced today in a press release.
“Whilst I have a deep and long-standing passion for Australian Basketball, I am currently unable to commit to coaching the Boomers at next year’s Olympic Games,” Brown said in a statement. “The uncertainties around the direction of my professional future unfortunately mean that I cannot commit to the time and preparation that this job deserves and requires. The difficulties around traveling internationally with my family during the pandemic have also contributed to my decision.”
Basketball Australia CEO Jerril Rechter said in a statement that the program is “naturally disappointed” that Brown will no longer be coaching the team, but understands his decision.
Brown initially finalized a deal to coach the Australian national team last November, after the club had clinched a spot in the Tokyo Olympics with its fourth-place finish at the 2019 World Cup. Those Olympics had originally been scheduled to begin on July 24, 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the new start date for the Tokyo games is July 23, 2021.
Aron Baynes, Matthew Dellavedova, Joe Ingles, and Patty Mills are among the notable players expected to represent Australia in Japan next summer, as long as they’re able to work around the revamped NBA schedule. The selection of Brown as the Boomers’ head coach led to speculation that Sixers star Ben Simmons may elect to participate as well — it’s not clear if Brown’s resignation will influence Simmons’ decision one way or the other.
Do you think this had anything to do with the next two years that the Sixers owe him?
Or a potential job in the NBA. But I always thought if a coach was fired he would make what his previous contract paid him unless the new one was higher. So if he was making 5mil and hou signs for 1 then phi still on the hook for the other 4
All coaching contracts are guaranteed. Only way they are not is by a buyout which would make no sense for the coach.
Maybe he’s in on the OKC job?
“The uncertainties around the direction of my professional future
Yeah, I suck as a Head Basketball Coach, so I am going to lay off for awhile and then quit for good
he fooled the Sixers though for how many years?
Since 2013
SMH
Why does the word whilst exist?— just to be annoying? By starting off his statement with whilst, is he trying to stick it to those Yanks? Brownst is the worst.
From an Australian perspective, I always liked Brett Brown in the NBL
He coached great players and teams back in the 90’s, he has always helped our national teams, despite always having our usually one and only solid player sitting out of international competition…but in the NBA he just didn’t cut it…the NBL completely stuffed their league in the mid 90’s and we have never recovered it, the NBL is closer to the Euro Leagues play style than the NBA in every single way from rules, court size and 40 min games…I really hate 40min games…
Philly since they finally started to play Simmons and Embiid together, just went nowhere they looked the same two years ago as they do today…and that’s got to be on the coach…really disappointed that he couldn’t help Simmons adapt better and grow.
Embiid is worse! Not sure I would even want him around, much less coach him. Some players do not stay stable in the hurly-burly in the lane. I think that’s Westbrook’s problem— HOU traded away Capella to give him more room inside, but he was not comfortable there. I am going by compensatory behavior seen, as well as stats and success of both.
There’s a story to be told about Philly but I doubt it would be that surprising. The FO should not hang on to both stars if it doesn’t work with Rivers either.
Simmons is on the Aussie team so avoidance of awkward moments probably the main reason.