After a 1-4 start to the season, the Los Angeles Lakers parted ways with ex-coach Mike Brown on Nov.9 and since replaced him with Mike D'Antoni. Today, Brown is out of work but harbors no bad feelings towards the Lakers franchise.
"I still have a fondness for all the guys on the team. I really enjoyed working with all of them," Brown said. "The coaching staff was unbelievable, in my opinion. I hope they win.
"In terms of watching them, it does not intrigue me enough to watch them. I guess I just don't feel like I have a need to do it. But I hope they do well because these are people I work with and care about. I learned so much from working with Kobe [Bryant] and I hope he learned something working with me."
Brown had been named Coach of the Year in his tenure with the Cleveland Cavaliers and he helped guide that team to the NBA Finals. However, Brown could not find the same success in Los Angeles.
Still, Brown remains optimistic about his future and doesn't believe that the way how things ended with the Lakers will have any effect on his future in the league as he believes he will one day return to the sidelines.
"I think I will eventually coach again, but I don't know when. I don't know if it will be next year, the following year," he said. "The reality is I have this year plus two more on my contract, so I don't necessarily need to be in a rush. I'm just going to keep enjoying the family and life and figure out what's the next step in this whole thing as time goes on. Right now there has not been any thought to me coaching at all."
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