What Can Brown do for Purple & Gold? <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Most of all, if the Lakers need a coach, there's another intriguing possibility: Larry Brown. A source says the Lakers' short list is Jackson, Brown and Pat Riley. Because there are issues with Jackson, and Riley turned them down last summer and swears he's out of the coaching biz, Brown may be the most probable and the best. Brown loves superstars (except the ones he's coaching) and is crazy about Bryant. Bryant venerates great coaches (except the ones coaching him) and loves Brown. Despite Brown's recent retractions, he's likely to leave Detroit at season's end. He has done all he can there and doesn't think of it as somewhere he wants to retire. Despite their indignation, the Pistons are all for it so they can hire someone who'll play Darko Milicic, their unused second pick in the 2003 draft. Brown may have his choice of coasts. However, his wife, Shelly, is from here and they have a place in Malibu, so they're odds-on to take Kobe and the Lakers over their place in the Hamptons, Stephon Marbury and the New York Knicks. This will leave Jackson alone atop the Knicks' list and, hard as it is for me to believe, he may take it. Phil has always had a fascination with New York and, as much as he's loving his world tour, wants to work. Of course, he might not enjoy it any more than Rudy Tomjanovich enjoyed it here. Jackson, Isiah Thomas, Marbury and Jamal Crawford together would be worth the price of admission, the tabloids will only dance to Phil's tune for so long and, serene as he is, he won't like being eviscerated on WFAN.</div> Source
