<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Here's what you do: Offer him a piece of the team, a little piece, but one big enough to egg on his ego. Give him one of those faux titles like executive assistant vice chairman of Comcast-Spectacor or something like that. Either that, or let him call you Ed. I know. That's pretty much what Pat Croce wanted back in 2001, and you told him right then and there what he could do with his sunny disposition. But that was different. Pat wanted to run the 76ers and Flyers, wanted to push you out of the picture, and no one does that to Mr. Snider, not now, not ever. This would not be like that. You still would be the big, big, big boss. Mr. Snider to everyone in the world (except Billie Jean King for whatever reason). Titles aside, Larry would be around only to fix the Sixers. What we need Larry to do is build us a contending team, the way he did way back when, pulling the likes of Eric Snow, Aaron McKie, Matt Geiger, Theo Ratliff, Tyrone Hill and Dikembe Mutombo from the rosters of other teams. Yeah, yeah, he also gave us Derrick Coleman, but that was a desperation move, when that core group all got old or injured at once. What have you got to lose? It's not as if the guy who followed him did better. Or the guy who followed him. Or the guy who . . . well, you get the drift. It's not as if the GM he left behind has made us believers, either. I know Larry floated out that tripe when he got to Detroit about not having control here, but you and I know he was just filling notebooks on a slow day. You and I know Larry builds them and then breaks them, like a smart, but hyperactive child. Larry got a ready-made team over the hump in Detroit, won his first-ever NBA championship, then parlayed it into the New York job. Like everything else in his life, his maneuverings were the strokes of both a master and madman, securing oodles of money from the clueless folks who own the Knicks, making himself sick as he failed, for the first time, to improve a team he took control of. </div> link: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...ts/14609126.htm I?m pretty intrigued by the thought of LB returning and helping us build a franchise. The guy has been there and done that. He is a winner, and I think he knows exactly what we need to be a good and successful team in the NBA. But the chances are slim to none, and even if we do have a chance, remember, the guy is an emotional roller coaster. At times, he loves the whole roster, and at times, he wants to trade everyone away. With that being said, I don?t think he will ever have much success in the front office.
No way. The 76ers have got to comit to a coach, they can't keep changing coaches every year. Imagine being a player and having to learn a new every few years, that would not be fun, and your team would most likely not be good. Edit-MY bad, as far as managment goes, why not? I might be able to manage a team better than King, so I know for sure LB can.
I got the impression in the first post that Larry Brown could be part of management, not as a coach. Am I correct? I think a mangament/GM postition could be more suited for Brown and his age, as I am not sure he is comfortable with his health enough to coach a new team.
^ yeah, if they want him back it will be part of the management. again, i dont think he will have much success in the front office because the guy is an emotional roller coaster. one day, he loves the team, the next day, he wants them all gone.
