<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class="bi">Brown Almost Joined C's</div> <div> <span style="font-style: italic">Oct 23</span> - Doc Rivera admitted last night that former Knicks coach Larry Brown, over the summer, "was close" to joining his Celtics staff as an assistant.</p> </p> "We talked about it a lot, through the summer," Rivers said. "You know Larry and I are very close. I know Larry and I knew I could not count on him until it was actually signed. Because he's got a lot of things going on with his kids and (his father-in-law) has not been healthy. I knew that was out there, too. At one point, I thought it was going to happen. And then I kind of realized it wasn't. It would have been pretty cool." -- <font color="#000000">New York Daily News</font></p></div></div>
