I Just heard on Sportscenter that 2 league sources had informed them that Larry Brown has agreed to become the teams president at seasons end. So basically hes been lying to all of Detroit that he is going to stay and coach if healthy.
he wasn't lying to anyone...you have to read between the lines: he's not healthy enough to handle the rigor's of coaching but he's healthy enough to be president of basketball operations.
larry's a great teacher but i don't know how great of a judge of talent he actually is.. but we'll see i suppose.. but yeah.. as president of basketball operations he won't need run day-to-day duties but just make major personnel decisions.. from my understanding at least..
I'm someone shocked Larry Brown is going to move from coaching into a front office role, especially on another team. Does this mean Mike Brown becomes a lameduck coach until Larry Brown is healthy enough to coach again? Let's see how many ex-players he tries to recruit this summer with the Cavs having plenty of cap space.
The thing I'm anticipating the most is wether he and Leron can co-exist he can serve as a teacher for lebron even though hes not coaching.
well,espn commentators said that lb changes his mind that easy and than dan gilbert shouldn't believe it until lb sits w/ him in a press con...but i thnk he'll aceept the job esp.if detroit dont get past miami...
LARRY IS A BEING A TRADER. If it were a player making deals with other teams while being under contract, the media would be going CRAZY! Just imagine Rasheed Wallace talking to Cleveland while under contract, the media would have a FIELD DAY!! Everybody would be talking about how selfish the new "Hip Hop generation" is. Commentators would overreact, saying the game is going down the drain, and the players are all about themselves. But I guess since Larry Brown's a coach, and not percieved to be a threat to society, then the media will give him a pass. I think what he's doing is just a bad as Ron Artest promoting his rap album during the season. But obcourse Ron Artest is a much easier target for the media to pick on. I wonder why?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Rockfan06:</div><div class="quote_post">LARRY IS A BEING A TRADER. If it were a player making deals with other teams while being under contract, the media would be going CRAZY! Just imagine Rasheed Wallace talking to Cleveland while under contract, the media would have a FIELD DAY!! Everybody would be talking about how selfish the new "Hip Hop generation" is. Commentators would overreact, saying the game is going down the drain, and the players are all about themselves. But I guess since Larry Brown's a coach, and not percieved to be a threat to society, then the media will give him a pass. I think what he's doing is just a bad as Ron Artest promoting his rap album during the season. But obcourse Ron Artest is a much easier target for the media to pick on. I wonder why?</div>Man, you just played out the double standard card. Just make it a black and white issue if you feel so strongly about it, and stop beating around the bush. If the guy isn't healthy enough to continue coaching, then let him move to the front office.
I agree with rockfan to an extent...Bill Walton actually said something very smart on Monday, how Larry Brown is doing something that Larry Brown would never tolerate, and that's being a distraction to the overall goal...
Can't understand I can't understand bringing in Larry Brown to GM and Mike Brown to coach when for the same money (around 2.5 for Mike Brown and at least 7 for Larry) you could get an expirienced GM and Head Coach. They are taking risks with their Front office which is stupid. Larry has never GM'd before so it makes sense to figure because he is a good coach he will be a shrewd negotiatior and evaluator of talent? You know that Joe Dumars never let Larry have too much say in what happened in Detroit so why would he deserve 7 MILLION dollars to be a first-time GM?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting briang8818:</div><div class="quote_post">Man, you just played out the double standard card. Just make it a black and white issue if you feel so strongly about it, and stop beating around the bush. If the guy isn't healthy enough to continue coaching, then let him move to the front office.</div> It's true. If we we're talking about Ron Artest doing this, the media would be all over him. I think race has everything to do with it.
I actually think that your right. Sadly, we live in a society were if someone with a bad rep who happens to be black did this, they would be all over him calling him a cheat and a liar.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting playmaker31:</div><div class="quote_post">I actually think that your right. Sadly, we live in a society were if someone with a bad rep who happens to be black did this, they would be all over him calling him a cheat and a liar.</div> First off, Larry Brown has been successful in coaching and because of that he is respected. Artest has always been known as a mental case, so he is not well respected for his decision making. If a successful respected black basketball player were to do this like Grant Hill, Karl Malone, Dekembe, Tim Duncan, Shaq, they wouldn't be criticized very much, just like Brown isn't either. I think Shaq or Charles Barkley or Lebron James could say anything they wanted and get away with it with very little consequence. I don't think it racism, I think its merely they are too respected as players and the league needs them to promote itself. Larry Brown won the NBA trophy last year so he has to receive respect for that, as well as he is probably the best or second best coach currently in the league. (Popavich is probably up there too).
I saw some videos and brown said why would people say that and he said he loves the pistons and he wants to saty in detroit and he says it"s all lies... it"s intresting
