<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">PHILADELPHIA -- Exit Iverson. Enter Brown. And so it goes with the Philadelphia 76ers, who rehired Larry Brown for their front office nearly three weeks after trading away the player who tormented him during much of his six years as their coach -- Allen Iverson. The 76ers said early Saturday that Brown returned as an executive vice president. He will assist team president Billy King and the basketball operations department, and work on special projects. "Oh yeah, I think he's very happy back in Philly," said Brown's agent, Joe Glass. The move was expected after Philadelphia traded Iverson to Denver last month. The day after the deal, King said he was talking to Brown about the possibility of rejoining the franchise he coached to the 2001 NBA finals. The 66-year-old Hall of Fame coach had a contentious relationship with Iverson, but the two worked together despite several disputes. Iverson was often late for practices, or skipped them, leading to blowups with Brown. Former team president Pat Croce acted as mediator, once sitting the combustible pair in a room and persuading them to hash out their differences. "That's a good move. He'll do a great job," Iverson said after the Nuggets' loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Brown, fired by the Knicks in June after going 23-59 and clashing with team president Isiah Thomas in Brown's only season in New York, had been acting as an unofficial Sixers consultant this season. Brown advised King on the Iverson trade.</div> Full Story
I already stated my opinion on this before. Larry Brown left us once, who is to say he won't do it again. Not only that, but we brought him back in a position he has never really proven to be a successful in. Hopefully, this doesn't come back to smack us in the face.
Maybe he can get something done in the front office; unlike King who hasn't mad a major move since the Chris Webber trade. I also have a feeling that if things get bad enough; Mo Cheeks might get fired, and then Larry Brown would end up being an "interm" coach or something like that.
I think larry brown can help the sixers out alot. He's a proven winner, something that no other person on the sixers can say they are. They need an attitude change on both the court and in the front office. Hopefully brown can do that.
<div class="quote_poster">Answer_AI03 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I think larry brown can help the sixers out alot. He's a proven winner, something that no other person on the sixers can say they are. They need an attitude change on both the court and in the front office. Hopefully brown can do that.</div> Maurice Cheeks has two NBA championships, so technically he is a proven winner as well. Brown is a proven winner as a coach, not a front office personnel. Same with Cheeks being one as a player and not a coach.
Still, i think larry brown brings a different mentality to a soft sixer team. He's made every team he has coached for better except the knicks.
<div class="quote_poster">Answer_AI03 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Still, i think larry brown brings a different mentality to a soft sixer team. He's made every team he has coached for better except the knicks.</div> Great so that means no Greg Oden
Larry Brown is a joke. Larry literally begged Dolan and Isiah to trade for Jalen Rose and Steve Francis and a few weeks later wanted them traded. He doesn't have a grasp on the game like he used to. He set a record for starting lineups with 45 I think and expected consistency from our lineup. People say he has an eye for talent but said he would have drafted Jared Jeffries first (over Yao, Amare). With Brown, I see a lot of moves happening, but not necessarily the right ones.
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Larry Brown is a joke. Larry literally begged Dolan and Isiah to trade for Jalen Rose and Steve Francis and a few weeks later wanted them traded. He doesn't have a grasp on the game like he used to. He set a record for starting lineups with 45 I think and expected consistency from our lineup. People say he has an eye for talent but said he would have drafted Jared Jeffries first (over Yao, Amare). With Brown, I see a lot of moves happening, but not necessarily the right ones.</div> This was coming off a year where Jared Jeffries and the Indiana Hoosiers made a run to the National Championship game. You really can't blame Brown for that being that Amare and Yao were both two virtually unknowns being one was straight from HS and one was from overseas. Personally, I like Larry Brown back here. He's a proven winner at all levels, and I think the guys will respond to him.
<div class="quote_poster">C.K. Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">This was coming off a year where Jared Jeffries and the Indiana Hoosiers made a run to the National Championship game. You really can't blame Brown for that being that Amare and Yao were both two virtually unknowns being one was straight from HS and one was from overseas. Personally, I like Larry Brown back here. He's a proven winner at all levels, and I think the guys will respond to him.</div> True, but I think a real talent evaluator would be able to look past the hype surrounding certain players and make a proper judgment. Jerry West was about to draft Stoudemire, but his staff advised him not to, because they thought Drew Gooden would be better going to college and all. And you can't really be an "unknown" if you go #1, even if you are 7'5".
