<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">If you ask Billy King, he'll tell you that Larry Brown's return to the 76ers is no big deal. King will spew the usual rhetoric - saying things are being overblown. The Sixers' president and general manager will say that all he's doing is leaning on the counsel of a great basketball mind that was hibernating right in his backyard, recuperating from the worst basketball experience of his life. And if you believe that, perhaps you're the fool who believes these 76ers are worth $400 million. Or maybe you're the cynic who finds Brown's official return to the team yesterday as executive vice president a bit more than sheer coincidence. After all, he's back just three weeks after Allen Iverson was replaced by guys who want to "play the right way," just weeks after Iverson said, "Maybe [Brown] should be the team president, if he's the one making the decisions." Perhaps you're the idiot who actually cares, who's too busy lamenting the way Brown departed for Detroit in 2003 to be focusing on the present state of the Sixers, who happen to be in desperate need of reconstruction. Brown, one of basketball's great minds, has returned to Philadelphia. Go ahead and connect the dots, then try to explain why this should be a problem for anyone. Before the atrocity that was Brown's 2005-06 season as coach of the New York Knicks, the man known as "Mr. Fix-it" was recognized as one of the great coaches of our time. He was a great coach in Denver in the 1970s, in college at Kansas in the late 1980s, with the Indiana Pacers in the early 1990s. And he most definitely was a great coach in Philadelphia by the end of the century.</div> Read more...
