DENVER (AP) — Oklahoma City Thunder coach Scott Brooks was on the bench leading his team in Sunday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets one day after his 79-year-old mother’s death.
Brooks said in a statement that he decided to coach the game because that’s what he feels his mother, Lee Brooks, would have wanted.
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“I appreciate the thoughts and prayers that are with my family,” Brooks said. “I know my mom would want me to coach tonight’s game and I do so to honor her memory and all that she meant to me as a mother and as an invaluable role model.”
There was no immediate word on the cause of death.
Lee Brooks had continued operating a family-owned car wash business in Manteca, Calif. She raised Brooks and six siblings after his father left the family when Scott Brooks was still a toddler.
