A Peripatetic Pro on the Precipice
5th Sep 2005, 13:58 GMT
One of Larry Brown's dearest friends once described him as "the vagabond genius of basketball coaching." It should come as no surprise that Brown appears ready to leave Detroit even though the Pistons are defending their championship in the Eastern Conference finals. This isn't new. In fact, it's pretty standard stuff for the vagabond genius. In 1983, on April 7, with six games left in the regular season and his New Jersey Nets cruising into the playoffs with a 47-29 record, Brown resigned. Bang, zoom, gone. Went to the University of Kansas -- where, by the way, he would lead the Jayhawks to an NCAA championship.