American Brown resigns from coaching Australian basketball team due to "travel difficulties"

American Brett Brown resigned, on Tuesday, from coaching the Australian basketball team, nine months before the start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Brown, who was sacked from the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers training at the end of August 2019, took over the duties of training Australia in November of the same year with the aim of leading it in the Olympic Games that were scheduled last summer before being postponed to next year due to the emerging Corona virus.

"The doubts surrounding my career mean that I cannot devote the time and preparation that this position deserves and demands," Brown said in a statement published by the Australian Game Federation.

The former Philadelphia coach also touched on "the difficulties of traveling abroad with his family" during the outbreak of the new Corona virus.

The Philadelphia 76ers fired Brown after a resounding elimination from the first round of the NBA "Playoff" by losing to the Boston Celtics 0-4.

In seven seasons with the opposing team in the Eastern Province, Brown has scored 221 wins and 344 losses, leading him to the playoffs in the last three seasons.

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