Jumping in here in what is kind of a painful thread to read through. As a general nit to this point, why is the assumption that Vivek made the decision to extend Brown and then made the decision to fire him? Seems more likely Monte pushed to extend brown over the summer, arguing for continuity and stability that would come from that. I definitely agree Vivek wanted Brown gone, but I mean half this board was happy with that decision. From my perspective, it was actually nice that our owner agreed to eat that contract in an effort to save the season. I do appreciate that in a small market, Vivek is not a penny pinching owner (certainly could take issue with the ticket price hikes but that seems common everywhere).
I believe Vivek is a goofball, nerdy, weird guy with some wacky Silicon Valley out of the box thinking and a healthy does delusion caused by people telling him how much of a genius he was as he became a billionaire. He is impatient. When things are going well, I think he is fine keeping out of the decision making process. Happy to bask in the limelight of sitting with the random celebrity he invited to the game, and awkwardly lighting the beam with the players.
However, when things aren’t going well, he absolutely meddles. He’s inpatient and a know it all that believes he can shake things up, get us back on track, and get him back to his beam lighting fun. I absolutely believe he was generally hands off for Monte’s first couple years and he was rewarded with some fun kings basketball. Likewise, I believe he will let Perry do his thing for the next couple years. If things are headed in the right direction all will be ok, but there will absolutely be a point in time where the mood sours and the meddling returns. That’s probably true of 75% of the owners in the nba; however, Vivek’s personal peculiarities make him stand out as particularly weird and annoying when it happens.