Does Brown want his cake?

[Reality]

Allegedly,

The Pistons have asked for assurances that Brown can coach the entire season without another outage.  Entirely reasonable from what facts on Browns health and he himself are stating.  Pistons job is 2nd best coaching position in all of hoop, and the Pistons could be at or near the top for the 2-3 more years.  Brown cannot/willnot give any health/commitment assurances, yet refuses to step down.

Now, his agent and he are wanting the Pistons to force them out.  What will that do?

a)  Give him his entire next 3 years worth of dough, like 15+ million.  (? post if otherwise)

Bee)  he can go and coach for another team, because he was *fired*.

Is this Brown being a scam artist?

I read the other article on jns thread about the Pistons being so (allegedly) harsh to other ex coaches.   I side with the Pistons on this current one, unless otherwise facts come out.

Update:  Brown can indeed coach for another team next season.  Bought out by Pistons.

Brown can't even come close to promising a whole season, then what is this, the persons with disabilities act milking the system?  By this i mean in the real world there are tons of disabled who are in dire need of taxpayer assistance yet cannot recieve it.  Yet there are also plenty of weasles who bilk the system for gross overpayment.

[Reality]

Brown was not fired.  He accepted a buyout.  Big difference.  Like 30 million or more bucks when combining the buyout and whatever Brown will make with his next coaching job.

If it really was Browns undying wish to coach the Pistons next season, he could have refused the buyout.

I love his agent in slease defense lawyer style taking *umbrage*.  "I take umbrage with the Pistons, or sources, saying it's a buyout," Joe Glass said Tuesday morning before the announcement. "A buyout encompasses a mutual agreement, and that's not what is happening. Larry Brown is saying, 'I want to coach the Pistons,' and they want to pay him off for whatever reason."

Man shut your piehole.  It certainly was a "buyout" and "mutual agreement".  

For *whatever reason* :rofl:

 :cry:  :cry: Poor Larry forced to take his millions and now be free to make millions more.

And the poor billionaire Pistons owner. :cry:  :cry:  

[westkoast]

It seems like he has a problem with being a coach of a successfull team or a team who has had success in recent history.  How many times has he bolted from a team after improving their situation?

[rickortreat]

That's his MO, make the team better and then go.

Well, the Pistons got what they wanted, a Championship.  Brown always gets away with extra money.  I don't know why NBA front offices kiss his ass so much.  I'm not so sure they wouldn't have won with Carlisle as the coach anyway, if they did they'd be in a better position now.

I sure wouldn't have been nice to him after he allowed rumours about Cleveland to enter the picture while his team was fighting in the playoffs.  

[JoMal]

Larry Brown is turning into the whore-coach of the NBA. Everybody wants to pay him, they all have a good time, but then he pats them on the butt and bids farewell as a new sugardaddy comes into the picture.

What moron owner would even contemplate giving this guy more then a one-year contract? Oh...right. Because the moron owner in the next town will do it if you don't, so they jump at the chance to act dumber then dirt first.

And then there is Isiah Thomas. Could a serial killer let loose in the Knicks locker room do more damage then their own GM? At what point do the New York owners sober up and dry out and admit they are perpetuating the myth of Big Apple superiority as long as they have that closet queen running the reputation of their team into the Hudson River?

I hope they do hire Brown, who will actually get some production out of the junk that Thomas has thrown up on the court, then after a year or two bail out on them to replace Stan Van Gundy in Miami, as Pat Reilly snickers about "stealing" Larry away from the hated Knicks by giving him another five year, upteen million dollar contract.

[Reality]

Larry Brown is turning into the whore-coach of the NBA. Everybody wants to pay him, they all have a good time, but then he pats them on the butt and bids farewell as a new sugardaddy comes into the picture.

What moron owner would even contemplate giving this guy more then a one-year contract? Oh...right. Because the moron owner in the next town will do it if you don't, so they jump at the chance to act dumber then dirt first.

 

Detroit got their moneys worth from him.  The extra they had to buyout?  Pales in comparison to how much the club value went up for back to back Finals.  

NYKnicks should absolutely sign him.  

Even if, make that when he only stays 1-2-3 years he always makes the team much better then it was.  Most of the time taking them either to the finals (UCLA-Kansas-Phily 6ers-Pistons) or further then they have ever been.  (Clippers in playoffs, ABA Coach of year '73 '75 '76).