Larry “Diapers” Brown might be making a comeback in Philly?
There’s no question that a low-life on the magnitude of a Larry Brown desperately wants back into the NBA so he can begin to work off the blemishes of the last two years. Beginning with the poor job he did at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, continuing in a distracted championship defense in Detroit, and culminating in perhaps the worst coaching job in NBA history last year in New York, Brown needs a chance to repair his image. But why in Philly? Their roster is terrible right now. And even if they get Greg Oden and two other high-profile rookies with their three first round draft picks, will Brown really enjoy coaching a team that would be even younger than the 2005-2006 Knicks?
At this stage in Brown’s career, he needs to cherry-pick and pull a Phil Jackson by simply finding a championship-ready team that he can hitch his fallen star to. But hey, if Philly wants to bring Brown back, I’m willing to sit back and watch the show. If Brown can find a way to change, if he can tolerate rookie mistakes and control his whiny nature, it will only serve to highlight the fact that everything that went wrong in New York was 100% his fault. And if he can’t change his behavior, if he insists on berating players in the press, benching rookies in favor of less-talented veterans, if he trades young players for older ones, then he’s setting the Sixers back and I’m all for that.
The real question is this: what do loyal Sixers fans want? Do they want another roll in the hay with Larry Brown? Because if it comes out that Brown in stepping back in after orchestrating Allen Iverson’s trade out of town, then we’ll know that Brown hasn’t changed a bit. And isn’t it funny that Iverson was traded to Larry Brown’s little bitch, George Karl. So the next time Brown and Karl are spooning under Carolina Blue satin sheets after a hot night under a mirrored ceiling, I wonder if Karl will ask Brown how he used to handle AI?
There’s no question that a low-life on the magnitude of a Larry Brown desperately wants back into the NBA so he can begin to work off the blemishes of the last two years. Beginning with the poor job he did at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, continuing in a distracted championship defense in Detroit, and culminating in perhaps the worst coaching job in NBA history last year in New York, Brown needs a chance to repair his image. But why in Philly? Their roster is terrible right now. And even if they get Greg Oden and two other high-profile rookies with their three first round draft picks, will Brown really enjoy coaching a team that would be even younger than the 2005-2006 Knicks?
At this stage in Brown’s career, he needs to cherry-pick and pull a Phil Jackson by simply finding a championship-ready team that he can hitch his fallen star to. But hey, if Philly wants to bring Brown back, I’m willing to sit back and watch the show. If Brown can find a way to change, if he can tolerate rookie mistakes and control his whiny nature, it will only serve to highlight the fact that everything that went wrong in New York was 100% his fault. And if he can’t change his behavior, if he insists on berating players in the press, benching rookies in favor of less-talented veterans, if he trades young players for older ones, then he’s setting the Sixers back and I’m all for that.
The real question is this: what do loyal Sixers fans want? Do they want another roll in the hay with Larry Brown? Because if it comes out that Brown in stepping back in after orchestrating Allen Iverson’s trade out of town, then we’ll know that Brown hasn’t changed a bit. And isn’t it funny that Iverson was traded to Larry Brown’s little bitch, George Karl. So the next time Brown and Karl are spooning under Carolina Blue satin sheets after a hot night under a mirrored ceiling, I wonder if Karl will ask Brown how he used to handle AI?
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