By Joe Vardon | The Athletic, 2026-06-04 05:04:44
圣安东尼奥——就在18年又361天前，迈克·布朗 (Mike Brown) 在这座球馆执教了他的首场 NBA 总决赛，尽管当时球馆门头上的名字还不一样。
2007年6月7日，时年37岁的布朗带领勒布朗·詹姆斯 (LeBron James) 和克利夫兰骑士队造访了圣安东尼奥的 AT&T 中心。布朗在周三表示，那个时候的自己“作为一个年轻人，情绪很容易大起大落”。
从那以后的历次执教经历——在克利夫兰下课、重新上任、再次下课，在湖人的短暂执教，在金州勇士担任夺冠助教，随后执掌萨克拉门托国王，直到如今出任尼克斯主帅——这些波折让布朗变得更加从容和豁达，也让他的性格多了一份“沉稳冷静”。
至少他自己是这么认为的。直到2026年 NBA 总决赛第一场打响。现年56岁的布朗发现自己在上半场不得不为自己的行为向主裁判斯科特·福斯特 (Scott Foster) 领衔的裁判组道歉。
“我说，‘嘿，我至少应该先跟你们打个招呼，然后再冲你们发火的，’”布朗说道，“但我没能把注意力集中在比赛本身，我们的球员也是如此。我们都对裁判抱怨得太多了。”
甚至在史蒂夫·科尔 (Steve Kerr) 生病期间，布朗还曾代替他执教过勇士的总决赛并赢下了比赛。他本不应该表现得如此失控。
尼克斯在经历了一个艰难的上半场后重新调整，凭借杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 砍下的30分，以105-95赢下了第一场比赛。在上半场，纽约全队——包括布朗，但不仅仅是他——对裁判的判罚感到极其愤怒。他们抱怨的焦点在于：哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 撞到了布伦森的膝盖，而且布伦森还在卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 的脚上扭伤了脚踝，但这两次身体接触裁判都没有鸣哨。这两次对抗都让布伦森一度一瘸一拐，这让他的主教练非常恼火。
布朗、布伦森以及他们的教练组成员对裁判进行了严厉的斥责，他们挥舞着手臂、挥拳怒吼，做出了各种各样的抗议动作。
事实上，是布伦森的父亲、曾在1999年代表尼克斯征战总决赛的布朗助教里克·布伦森 (Rick Brunson) 及时拉住了布朗。“他让我闭嘴……他让我闭嘴或者安静点，他还让队里的其他人保持安静，别再去烦裁判。”
“他这么做太棒了，因为当时我们都有点失去理智了，我也是。其他队员也是。这帮助我们将精力重新集中到比赛中，尤其是在下半场。”
半场结束时，尼克斯以48-55落后，并在第三节一度落后达14分。接下来发生的事情虽然不像东部决赛首战那样富有戏剧性（当时纽约在比赛还剩8分钟时落后22分，却顽强扳平比分，拖入加时并最终取胜），但他们依然奉献了一场令人惊叹的逆转。三节结束时，双方战成76平，随后布伦森和OG·阿奴诺比 (OG Anunoby) 在最后一节联手砍下25分。
“这显然不是我们希望陷入的境地，但我们始终保持着‘专注于下一个回合’的心态，”布伦森说道，“我们必须控制自己能控制的事情，我们球队会打出高潮。比赛中总会有各种状况发生，而我们总能找到办法重新振作起来。”
只需要一点点冷静，而在布伦森的父亲让主教练冷静下来之后，尼克斯重新找回了这份沉着。
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Mike Brown thanks assistant Rick Brunson for Game 1 help: ‘He told me to shut the hell up’
SAN ANTONIO – It was 18 years and 361 days prior when Mike Brown coached his first NBA Finals game, in this building, no less, albeit with a different name over the doors.
On June 7, 2007, Brown, 37 at the time, brought LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers into San Antonio’s AT&T Center. That version of Brown, he would say Wednesday, “had a tendency as a young guy to get too high or too low.”
All the stops along the way since, from his dismissal, rehiring, and dismissal again in Cleveland, his short stint with the Lakers, his time as a championship assistant coach with Golden State, and then tenure as head coach in Sacramento before taking on his current job directing the Knicks, gave Brown levity and perspective while sprinkling a little “even keel” onto his demeanor.
Or so he thought. Then Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals happened. Brown, now 56, found himself apologizing to lead official Scott Foster’s crew in the first half for his own behavior.
“I said, ‘Hey, I should have said, “Hi,” to you guys at least, first, and then jump you,” Brown said. “But I didn’t do a good job of keeping my mind present in the game, and neither did our players. We were all bitching too much at the officials.”
Brown even coached finals games for the Warriors when Kerr was sick and won them. He shouldn’t have been acting crazy.
The Knicks recovered from a rough first half to take Game 1, 105-95, behind 30 points from Jalen Brunson. New York — Brown included, but it wasn’t just him — was furious with the refs in the first half. Among their complaints – Brunson had Harrison Barnes crash into his knee, and he turned his ankle on Luke Kornet’s foot, and neither play drew a whistle. Both plays left Brunson momentarily hobbling, which was upsetting to his coach.
There was berating, arm waving, fist pounding and any number of other gestures directed toward the refs by Brown, by Brunson, and their colleagues.
In fact, it was Brunson’s dad, Rick, Brown’s assistant who played in the 1999 Finals for the Knicks, who had to get a hold of Brown. “He told me to shut the hell up … he told me to shut up or be quiet, and he told the rest of the team to be quiet and leave the officials alone.
“It was great of him because we were all kind of losing our mind, and I did it. Rest of the guys did it, and it helped us put our energy elsewhere, especially in the second half.”
The Knicks trailed, 55-48, at halftime and were down 14 in the third quarter. What happened next wasn’t quite as dramatic as Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, when New York trailed by 22 with eight minutes left and tied the game, sent it to overtime and won in the extra session. But there was still another impressive comeback to be had, and the Knicks did it. They were tied at 76 through three quarters, and then Brunson and OG Anunoby combined for 25 points in the final quarter.
“It’s a position we obviously don’t want to be in, but it’s always a next-play mentality,” Brunson said. “We have to control the things that we can control, and our team is going to go on runs. Things are going to happen, and somehow we bounce back.”
Just takes a little composure, which the Knicks regained after Brunson’s dad told the head coach to simmer down.
By Joe Vardon, via The Athletic