Hello, Larry

While we wait to see what's up with Mark Jackson and Donnie Walsh, two pieces of news that shouldn't be surprising.

According to the San Jose Mercury News, Stanford has put out feelers to Larry Brown about its head-coaching vacancy.

This came before the 76ers officially announced Brown's resignation Thursday as their executive vice president _ with a statement from general manager Ed Stefanski suggesting Brown is after a coaching job again.

Brown, remember, was hired by the GM Stefanski replaced, Billy King, so this parting was only a matter of time.

Knowing Brown's history, though, this could be Larry calling Stanford, rather than the other way around, because if you're familiar with LB, he's like a buzzard flying around, searching for prey.

These days it almost sounds like he's about to put out feelers for biddy-ball jobs, so anxious is he to either coach at another place when he's already at one place, or in this case, simply anxious to coach again to rid himself of the stench of his 23-59 Knicks experience.

Expect his name to pop up, too, when other NBA jobs open up along the way (and some will), as it already did in Milwaukee and to a lesser extent with the still-vacant Chicago job. It's already been out there with jobs that aren't vacant yet in Charlotte and Memphis (where his buddy John Calipari is guilty by association as his broker).

Frankly, if we were the Knicks, we might say to Larry, "We paid you $18.5 million to go away after giving you $10 million to go 23-59 _ so come back and earn some of that money."

Not really, but wouldn't that be a hoot?

Yet, based on a track record in which teams in his second year show dramatic improvement, imagine where the Knicks would be today (in what would've been his third season) if he hadn't been fired,

Maybe playing the Celtics, Pistons or Magic in the first round?

Comments

[MJ]

Brown stole that money from the Knicks with the awful job he did. Set this team back years. I never want to see that thief set foot in the garden again

[knicksdefense]

yeah, i hated larry for that season, starting different players based on locations of home towns, ect. it was chaos, in a different way than this season's madness. the only bright spot was the six game win streak in january.

don't get me wrong, i'm not defending brown's antics, but, where is the bright spot from this season? wilson chandler leading us to a three-game win streak at a time when they should have been losing to get the top pick?

isiah as you know also (mis)led the knicks to 23 wins.

and i'd love for isiah to leave new york entirely and never set foot in the garden again as well.