The Sacramento Kings’ dismissal of Mike Brown on Friday left a bad taste in some NBA coaches’ mouths, and they expressed it as much over the last few days.

The Kings replaced Brown with Doug Christie. Sacramento dropped to 13-18 on Thursday, which led to the decision to fire Brown. However, it was the way the head coach was fired that didn’t appear to sit well with others.

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Sacramento’s front office informed Brown of the decision on the phone as he was driving to the team plane, ESPN reported.

Denver Nuggets’ Michael Malone, Golden State Warriors’ Steve Kerr and Detroit Pistons’ J.B. Bickerstaff were among those to speak out.

Malone had some choice words.

"I'm not surprised that Mike Brown got fired, because I got fired by the same person," Malone said after the Nuggets’ loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, via ESPN. "And what really p----d me off about it was the fact that they lost [Thursday] night, fifth game in a row, I believe. Tough loss. . . . They had practiced this morning. He does his postgame media, and he's in his car going to the airport to fly to L.A. and they call him on the phone.

"No class, no balls. That's what I'll say about that."

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Kerr told reporters he was "disappointed" over the firing.

"Mike is a great friend, great coach. I talked to him, and we all kind of know this is the nature of the business," Kerr said, via NBC Sports Bay Area. "But it just seems so shocking when a guy is a unanimous Coach of the Year, a year and a half ago."

Bickerstaff echoed Malone’s words, calling the firing "classless."

"He deserves better than that, you can make whatever decision you want to make, we understand that," he added, via The Athletic. "But the way you treat human beings matters, and it's extremely disappointing to see a coach, a guy that you care about, a guy that you know how good and talented he is, be treated that way, you know, and it's disappointing that people wouldn't have the thought to treat people as human beings and show them the respect that they deserve, knowing the sacrifices that coaches make from their families, their personal health, everything, you know, that Mike has done for that team and that organization. 

"You know, I just thought it was s----y, to be honest with you, the way it was handled."

Brown was in the middle of his third season with the Kings. He led them to the playoffs in his first year in 2022-23. He was 107-89 as the head coach.

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Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James had a message for the NFL following the team’s close win over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night.

James scored 31 points and dished out 10 assists as Austin Reaves’ go-ahead bucket gave the Lakers a 115-113 win. But with the NFL creeping up on what was the NBA’s most exciting day of the regular season, James sent a warning shot to the league.

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"I love the NFL. I love the NFL. But Christmas is our day," he declared.

Last year, the NFL scheduled three games on Christmas Day as it fell on a Monday. This year, two games were scheduled on Christmas. In 2022, regular season games fell on Christmas Day.

NFL officials said last year the league wouldn’t schedule any games on Christmas if it fell outside of a normally scheduled day.

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"We’ve seen the opportunity with Thanksgiving and some of the audience that we’ve continued to build there," NFL executive vice president of media distribution Hans Schroeder told The Wall Street Journal at the time. "We think there’s an opportunity when the calendar allows it on Christmas now, too, when we know our fans are going to be together."

It was only four months later when the league did an about-face.

"The fans clearly spoke," Schroeder told The Wall Street Journal in March. "There’s a big demand."

The report noted that the NFL would usually give the day away to the NBA and other programming and even moved the old NFL championship off of Christmas if it fell on that day.

This year, the NFL’s games were seen on Netflix. When the ratings come out, everyone will get to see whether James is right.

The NFL dispatched the first round of the College Football Playoff last week in their rare head-to-head matchup.

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