Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown spent his post-game press conference, following his team’s win over the Utah Jazz, discussing the Maine mass shooting.
The Sacramento Kings won their season debut over the Utah Jazz Wednesday night, but the team’s victory and their performance were not what the Kings’ coach wanted to address after the game. Instead, he turned his attention to the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine.
„I don’t even want to talk about basketball,“ a visibly emotional head coach Mike Brown told reporters at a post-game press conference. „We played a game, it was fun. Obviously, we won but if we can’t do anything to fix this, it’s over. It’s over for our country for this to happen time after time.“
Brown initially addressed reporters saying he was walking over to the press conference when someone told him about the mass shooting in Maine that spanned two locations Wednesday night leaving at least 22 people dead and 30 wounded. He said: „If that doesn’t touch anybody, then I don’t know. I don’t even know what to say.“
„It’s a sad day. It’s a sad day for our country. It’s a sad day in this world,“ the coach added.
