Michael Mike Brown (born March 5, 1970) is an American basketball head coach. He has coached both the Cleveland Cavaliers and later the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and is widely regarded as a defensive specialist.
He began coaching the Cavaliers in 2005 and turned the Cavaliers into one of the top defensive teams in the NBA and guided them into the 2007 NBA Finals. Brown was honored as NBA Coach of the Year for leading the Cavaliers to a team record and league best 66 wins in 2009, and 61 wins, again a league best, in 2010. However, after losses to both the Orlando Magic in the conference finals in 2009 and the Boston Celtics in the 2010 conference semifinals, he was fired after failing to win an NBA title with the Cavaliers. He succeeded Phil Jackson as the head coach of the Lakers in 2011 before being fired after the start of the following season.
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