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Just before Mike Brown took over as coach of the Sacramento Kings last summer

he looked up a fact about one of his mentors, Gregg Popovich.

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When Popovich became coach of the San Antonio Spurs in 1997, he was a few months shy of his 48th birthday (Pop turns 74 on Saturday

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happy early birthday, Pop).

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Popovich is now the winningest coach in NBA history.

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Brown was only 52. His career was not yet defined. He had time to write a new chapter

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It can be easy to cast head coaches in a certain mold and not appreciate that they mature and develop just like players

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That might have happened to Brown over the past eight years. After he was fired by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014

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the third time in four years he lost a head-coaching job, he was left by the side of the coaching road

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repeatedly not considered when jobs opened

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