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OAKLAND, Calif. -- A foot-long dark burn scar going from Mike Browns right quadriceps down his lower leg reminds him each day of his good fortune.There are also the dozen or so round burn blotches on his right arm, and a tiny spot on his lip that would go unnoticed except that the new Warriors assistant knows its there.The old coach of stars like LeBron James and Kobe Bryant during stints with the Cavaliers and Lakers endured quite a memorable couple of years out of the NBA spotlight. He worked informally for Gregg Popovich in San Antonio. He found a place in Albuquerque so he could regularly watch his oldest son, Elijah, play basketball for New Mexico. Then, Brown survived a frightening May kitchen fire at his Cleveland home with his younger son.He has moved forward and found himself in an ideal situation that might just lead to another opportunity to be a head coach down the line. He replaced former top assistant Luke Walton, now coaching the Lakers.NBA Coach of the Year with the Cavs in 2009, Brown realizes he landed in a great spot with Golden State, next to reigning Coach of the Year Steve Kerr and up close to MVP Stephen Curry and prized offseason acquisition Kevin Durant.Brown is thrilled to be talking basketball again, back to the daily routine of practice, meetings, film study and scouting opponents. He was fired in May 2014 by the Cavs after a second stint as coach.All of the scrutiny he faced there seems so minor now.One scary day in May, Brown was upstairs in his Cleveland home packing for a fun weekend away in Florida with a buddy when son Cameron screamed from the kitchen below that there was a fire. The 19-year-old was frying pecan dessert he had made before when the oil caught fire. Brown rushed down, stepped in to stop the flames and slipped on some oil. He found himself on the kitchen floor, his right side burning.It was May 27, Brown says. Ill never forget the day. Thats my youngest sons birthday.Brown was wearing shorts. Had he been in long pants, it would have been far worse. His right foot burned, too, the flames going right through a good pair of sneakers.They didnt call 911, driving to a hospital five minutes away. Brown walked into the emergency room and was immediately hit with two shots of morphine. He spent the night.You just react, Brown recalled of the terrifying ordeal. And then when its over you realize, `Boy, I cant believe that it happened. I could have died, my son could have. You think of stuff like that after its over and you just realize how precious your time is here. ... It was a crazy experience to say the least.Brown walked around Warriors media day last month with a big grin and distinctively dressed in long basketball shorts with a suit jacket and tie, clearly comfortable and thriving in his new surroundings.Its pretty hard not to with the vibe Golden State has going. After capturing the 2015 NBA championship, the Warriors set NBA records with a 24-0 start last season and a 73-win finish before losing to the Cavs in Game 7 of the Finals.Its very refreshing to see the true relationships everybody has, Brown said. From top down, its been refreshing, its been fun, its been a learning experience. You always want to be able to contribute something.And it is the defensive-minded Brown who recently proposed a new substitution pattern to Kerr with the idea of keeping two starters on the floor at all times -- meaning Curry, Durant and fellow All-Stars Draymond Green and Klay Thompson will get their much-needed breaks throughout the course of a 48-minute game.Mike is very detail-oriented. Hes brought me a lot of good stuff in terms of Xs and Os but also substitution patterns. Were really revamping our substitution look this year, said Kerr, who played in San Antonio at the end of his career while Brown was an assistant to Popovich. Mike was better in math than I was, so Mike is very methodical and sort of numbers-oriented. Hes been great in practice, hes fun to be around, so hes doing a great job.Brown spent part of the past year observing and offering input to Popovich in an unofficial capacity.He hopes to do something to repay Popovich someday for the opportunity.Pop is obviously a great coach but hes a great man. I cherish the relationship that I have with him, Brown said. This past year for me was fantastic because it gave me an opportunity to be involved in the game but to get close to my boys in the same breath. Whenever they werent playing or I wasnt visiting with them, I was with the Spurs. I was traveling with them, I was in their meetings, I was at all the practices. I didnt do any on-court coaching because I wasnt working but again hes open. He would ask me my opinion, I would sit in the coaches meetings, sit in the locker room before the games, halftime, the end of games. It was a great experience for me just being connected to the game again.With all Brown went through over the past year, he is enjoying every moment of his new gig.Now Im here in the Bay Area, Im a Warrior, Im hanging with Steve, the rest of the staff, Draymond, KD, he said. Its good.Kyle Connor Jets Jersey . -- Linebacker Myles Jack ran for four touchdowns, defensive end Cassius Marsh caught a scoring pass, and No. Jack Roslovic Jets Jersey . Jane Virtanen scored two, and Alex Roach and Elliott Peterson rounded out the offence for the Hitmen (40-15-6). Brady Brassart chipped in with three assists. 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This raises the question for lesser established developers: What makes you think youll succeed? Game developers and leagues alike face the daunting task of putting together a game that must stand out among the masses in order to thrive in the esports industry.Such is the state of affairs for Jack Felling and the rest of the Gears of War esports team over at The Coalition. The Canadian-based game studio previously known as Black Tusk created the Gears of War remake, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, and has been working on their next blockbuster title: Gears of War 4.With that comes a project built from the ground up designed to revitalize the once vibrant Gears esports scene. This is going to sound a bit funny, but we actually took many of our cues from the UFC, shared Felling, esports Producer and Game Developer at The Coalition. The UFC does a great job of building anticipation and storylines. We want to focus on doing the same things.The Gears of War esports narrative has been one of peaks and valleys throughout the years. The first Gears of War installment was released in 2006 on the Xbox 360 and quickly found success. Without a proper league or circuit to play on, Gears esports was birthed on the Gamebattles ladders. Off the back of player interest (in 2007 there were nearly 5,000 teams registered on the GB ladders), Major League Gaming announced that there would be a LAN tournament at MLG Meadowlands, the first of its kind.This tournament provided an opportunity for people to put faces to a name, and for players to prove their worth. MLG Meadowlands in 07 was where it all began. In a hot and humid parking garage, players waited in line for check-ins to enter the venue and that was when we became a real community. We were able to match faces with gamertags and weve been a hardcore scene ever since, said Loviel Velly Cardwell, former player and longtime Gears of War enthusiast. Alongside Halo 2 and Rainbow Six: Vegas, Gears made such an impression at its debut season that it made a return for the second season in 2008.More importantly, for Gears esports, that first season of tournaments provided international exposure to ambitious players around the globe. The second season saw more players, more teams, better production value, and more hype.Unfortunately, it was at the end of the second season that Gears esports began its crippling decline. The successor to the popular franchise opener, Gears of War 2, was not nearly as popular of an esport title. Plagued by inconsistencies and frequuent title updates, participation tanked and Gears of War 2 only saw one year on the circuit before being dropped.ddddddddddddTwo years of deafening silence in the competitive scene were broken by the launch of Gears of War 3, but that title fared even worse than its predecessor. What was once a thriving scene filled with promise became nothing but an empty silhouette of disappointment.The Gears of War esports scene was, for all intents and purposes, dead.Gears of War: Ultimate Edition served as an attempt to kindle the once glowing embers of Gears of War, and although strides were made with the Pro League that was run by ESL, the success or failure of Gears esports rests on Gears of War 4.The project is a international circuit that visits the likes of Paris, Mexico City, and Las Vegas and brings with it a $1 million prize pool and the promise of crowdfunding to grow the pot. Multiple open LAN events are not common in esports these days, but TC is reuniting with Major League Gaming and Gfinity to make it all happen. We believe its important for players to compete on LAN as much as possible - not only does it foster a sense of community, but it also allows the game to be played at the highest level of competitive integrity and allows us to capture the most amount of content as possible, said Felling. The roots of the Gears of War competitive community has been on LANs, and so we want to go back to that in an even bigger and better way than ever before with our Gears Pro Circuit.Even with the project they have in place, The Coalition faces a crowded market. When a new multiplayer game is launched, questions like, Does it have esports potential? are raised.With the new title comes a new approach to how the game is played at a competitive level. Known for a high-intensity 4v4 Execution game type, Gears 4 introduces something they are calling Escalation, a 5v5 round based Domination style game that is punctuated by longer respawn times as the rounds go on, and the ability for teams to place different weapons across the map in between rounds.We want to invest not only in prize money, but also in the program infrastructure and in the game modes and features developed for eSports, said Felling.The esports community as a whole has certainly taken notice. Major organizations such as OpTic Gaming, and NRG have already acquired teams ahead of the launch and kickoff of the circuit. Even in our remake title (Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, a remake of Gears of War 1), we saw the highest number of teams ever in our recent ladders and tournaments, said Felling.Gears of War 4 launches on Oct. 11. ' ' '