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it's on espn news.
Just heard it on the radio, its been substantiated.
Let me get a source...
it's on espn news.
http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar...ah_takes_over/ i think isaiah will do a better job just because the players respect him but larry is a better coach theres no question about it.
I wonder if they can fire Flip and get Brown back in Detroit.
Other than the fact that he is an awful coach and has assembled the laughingstock of the NBA, this is exactly like Riley.
maybe he was inspired by what riley did and thought to himself "hey i could do it too". what a horrible franchise.
i dont think anyone will hire brown for a while because its becoming very obvious that all the guy wants is money. he comes in for one year and then leaves with alot of the owners money. thank god geoff petrie didnt go after him.because if he did i would have called him an
Here is how Larry Brown's statement will go
"I just don't understand why I was fired? I wanted to stay and coach this team."
Always playing the victim card
then he will go on to say that he doesnt plan on coaching anytime soon and end up in washington or golden state.
Cue ShoogarBear in 3, 2, 1...
This is going to be like watching a car crash in slow motion. You won't be able to look away, even though you know you should.
It looks like I was a little long in my pool for Larry Brown's firing. I had it happening over the Fourth of July weekend, just after the NBA Draft. Next time I guess I will have to take the under.
P.S. What kind of horrible people skills do you have to have to get fired from one of the worst and one of the best teams in under one year?
Knicks hire an incompetent
Larry Brown will join MJ in Charlotte
Coaching that mess is actually a fitting punishment for Isiah
mark berman said thats a possibilty on espn but i doubt that will happen.
Well said Aggie
True. I think Thomas deserves to coach the team he assembled--no one else can
According to this NYT story, the Knicks fired Thomas "for cause" and will NOT be paying him the balance of his contract.
Knicks Fire Brown, Refusing to Pay Out Contract
By HOWARD BECK
GREENBURGH, N.Y., June 22 — Larry Brown was fired by the Knicks this morning after just one, surprisingly tumultuous season as their head coach. And the team indicated that it did not plan to pay him the more than $40 million left on his contract.
Isiah Thomas, the team's president and general manager, was immediately named as Brown's replacement. James L. Dolan, the chairman of Madison Square Garden, made the decision just before 10 a.m., after a one-hour meeting with Brown, Thomas and Steve Mills, the Garden president.
The decision ends a strange and protracted drama that began in mid-April, when the Knicks concluded their first season under Brown with a 23-59 record, their worst in two decades. It ranked among the worst seasons in Brown's Hall-of-Fame career.
Yet Dolan's disenchantment went far beyond the poor results on the court, and he ultimately fired Brown for a number of other transgressions. The Knicks, contending that Brown violated several provisions of his contract, fired him "for cause," and thus do not intend to pay him the balance of his contract, in excess of $40 million.
Under terms of Brown's contract, a five-year deal, he can appeal the team's decision to withhold his pay. Commissioner David Stern will ultimately decide the issue.
The Knicks hired Brown, with considerable fanfare and optimism, last July. Although they kept expectations modest, team officials figured that Brown, who has won both an N.C.A.A. and N.B.A. championship, would reverse a half decade of failure. Instead, Brown exacerbated the franchise's misery, losing games by the dozen, alienating his players and engaging in a public war of words with Stephon Marbury, the team's star point guard.
Dolan wanted specific assurances from Brown that he would change his behavior, both publicly and privately. When Brown wavered, Dolan decided to fire him.
Neither Brown nor any team officials were available for comment. Dolan and Thomas issued a statement expressing their frustration.
"Larry has had a long and storied career," Dolan said in the statement. "We hired him last summer with the expectation that he would be with the Knicks for a long time. Sometimes, decisions work and sometimes they don't. After careful consideration, despite the best intentions from everyone involved, this current structure did not work for us last season and I did not think it was going to improve next season. I have great personal admiration for Larry, but have concluded that it is best for our franchise if we make this change."
Thomas, who assembled the Knicks' unwieldy roster over the last two and a half years, becomes the Knicks' fifth coach since January 2004. He previously coached the Indiana Pacers from 2000-03, compiling a 131-115 record.
stern is going to side with knicks because he wants the knicks to save money and win more then 23 games a season
good without pay he will not want to be an assistant with spurs
OUCH LARRY BROWN JUST LOST 40 million for being a bad coach for the knicks and not doing what his BOSS tells him to do
sucks for him
even if he did get paid his 40 million i dont think his ego would allow him to take an assistant job.
I wonder what took so long? And is Thomas really going to coach or will they try to find someone else. Maybe he thinks he can do what Riley did with no coaching experience.
That will be comical to see Brown and Arenas or Brown and Baron.
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