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After back-to-back trips to the NBA Finals under Larry Brown, the Detroit Pistons will have a new coach next season. Pistons president Joe Dumars told ESPN that the team and Brown are in ongoing talks for a buyout of Brown's contract, which has three years left at an estimated $18 million.Dumars added that Brown's staff has been told that the talks are ongoing. No one has been fired or dismissed.
There was no immediate word whether the buyout would contain any stipulations that would prevent Brown from coaching another team for this upcoming season.
Dumars added that ex-Minnesota coach Flip Saunders, who turned down a lucrative offer from Milwaukee while waiting for the months-long Brown saga to reach a climax, is the leading candidate to replace Brown in Detroit but has yet to interview with the Pistons.
Brown said as recently as Friday that he was "confident" about returning to the Pistons next season, having overcome season-long speculation about new jobs to lead Detroit to within one victory of back-to-back championships.
Yet Brown, according to sources, could not guarantee that his health would hold up for a full season, which Pistons owner Bill Davidson had made a prerequisite for the 64-year-old's return.
The morning after last month's NBA draft and less than a week after Detroit lost Game 7 of the NBA Finals to the San Antonio Spurs, Brown was hospitalized for treatment of a medical problem that developed from complications following hip surgery in November and persisted after a second procedure in March.
It was not immediately known if the buyout arrangement would be finalized Monday.
It also remains to be seen whether Brown will take some time away from the NBA, stay with the Pistons in some capacity, or immediately pursue a coaching position with New York Knicks. New York president Isiah Thomas has held off on making Herb Williams his full-time head coach in the event that Brown becomes available.
Darko Milicic既好消息:icon101: 活塞會唔會退步... Originally posted by AI3 at 2005-7-19 01:14 PM:
Darko Milicic既好消息但睇佢SUMMER LEAGUE真係唔多掂... Originally posted by Liverman at 2005-7-19 04:33 PM:
但睇佢SUMMER LEAGUE真係唔多掂...
佢playoffs 係咪有場打正遺拎左22分?? 睇完仲以為好掂tim :icon099: Originally posted by 下雨天 at 2005-7-19 11:37 PM:
佢playoffs 係咪有場打正遺拎左22分?? 睇完仲以為好掂tim :icon099: 常規賽最尾幾場
佢喺summer league對住班新人都只係打出咁既水準, 難怪布朗教練唔肯用佢 布朗會唔會過ny呢?:o Originally posted by Stanley Traore at 2005-7-20 09:15 AM:
布朗會唔會過ny呢?:o
No.1 PG有福了 唔想佢走. 好鬼想佢留低. 我覺得佢真係最好既教練. dumas,thomas,bird...呢d有偉大歷史既紅褲子
為健立自己的班子~不聽話不合心水的很多時不惜大刀闊斧
什至犧牲,吃虧都在所不惜:icon054: Flip Saunders replaces Larry Brown
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