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Mike Brown was named the 17th head coach in Cleveland Cavaliers history on June 2, 2005. In his first four seasons at the helm of the Cavaliers, Brown has quickly recorded the best winning percentage of any coach in the team’s 39-year history.

Brown earned Coach of the Year honors after the 2008-2009 season, was named Coach of the Month three times during the season (December, February and March) and along with his coaching staff earned the opportunity to coach the Eastern Conference All-Star Team at the 2009 All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the NBA’s top young coaches, Brown also led the Cavaliers to becoming only the 12th team in NBA history to have 66 wins, a franchise high. Brown was the fourth youngest coach in NBA history to win 60 games.

With a combined regular season record of 211-117 (.643), which is the fifth-best record in the NBA over the last four years, Brown has posted at least 45 wins in each season. This represents the first time in franchise history that Cleveland reached at least that mark in four straight seasons. After posting a 50-32 record in 2005-06, which was the most wins as a first-year head coach in team history, Brown became the first rookie head coach since the 2001-02 season to post 50 wins in a season. Brown followed that up with another 50-win season (50-32) in his second year, 45 wins (45-37) in his third year and 66 wins (66-16) in his fourth year.

In the postseason, Cleveland is the only team to have reached at least the second round of the playoffs in each of the last four seasons and one of just six teams in the NBA that qualified for the playoffs in each of the last four seasons. In those four playoff appearances, Brown has led the team to a record of 36-24 (.600), which tied for the second-best playoff winning percentage in the NBA over that span, and 7-4 (.636) in playoff series, making him the winningest playoff head coach in team history. It was also the first time in franchise history the team had a winning record in four consecutive postseasons.

During his first playoff run as head coach, Brown led Cleveland to the Eastern Conference Semifinals in the 2006 Playoffs and became the first coach in franchise history to lead his team to a playoff series win in his first season by defeating Washington 4-2 in the First Round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs in 2006. In the 2007 Playoffs, Brown led the Cavaliers to their first Eastern Conference Championship and a trip to the NBA Finals after Cleveland knocked off the Pistons 4-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals. He guided the Cavaliers to their first series sweep in the first round versus Washington and then led Cleveland to a 4-2 win in the conference semifinals against New Jersey. In the 2008 Playoffs, the Cavaliers defeated the Washington Wizards 4-2 before taking the eventual NBA Champion Boston Celtics to a seven-game series.

In the 2009 playoffs, the team swept the first two rounds, over the Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks, for the first time in franchise history. The team finished the postseason at 10-4 (.714), which is the best record based on winning percentage in franchise history and the second-highest number of wins in a postseason, trailing only the 2007 playoffs when the team went 12-8 (.600).

Brown joined the Cavaliers after spending two seasons as the associate head coach of the Indiana Pacers and three seasons as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs. His career record as an assistant coach was 341-201 (.629) and he won a division title with Indiana in 2003-04 and three straight division titles with San Antonio. He helped lead Indiana to consecutive playoff appearances including a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2004. He was also on the bench for the Spurs during their 2003 World Championship season. While with the Spurs, Brown’s teams won at least 58 games each season. He also was the head coach for the Spurs’ summer league teams in Boston and Salt Lake City.

Brown spent three years with the Washington Wizards’ staff beginning in 1997, spending the first two years as an assistant under Bernie Bickerstaff, and his final year as the team’s professional scout.

The 39-year-old (born March 5, 1970 in Columbus, Ohio) began his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets in 1992, where he spent five seasons, first as the team’s video coordinator and then as a scout.

He participated in the NBA’s Basketball without Borders program in Johannesburg, South Africa in the summer of 2006. Mike and his wife, Carolyn, are actively involved in the Cavaliers’ community relations initiatives including “Domestic Violence Center”, “Cleveland Municipal School District”, “Cleveland Christian Home”, and “Shoes & Clothes for Kids”.

Brown is a 1992 graduate of the University of San Diego with a degree in business. He played basketball two seasons at USD after spending two years at Mesa Community College. He attended high school in Germany at Wurzburg American High School. He and Carolyn have two sons, Elijah and Cameron.