Lakers fire Mike Brown

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/lakers/2012/11/09/mike-brown-fired-by-lakers/1694785/

Deserves its own thread, not NBA Running Thread.

I've never seen anyone literally win a staredown so decisively.

 

Didn't the owner come out and say Mike had nothing to worry about... Appears the pat on the back also included a knife!

 

So who does Kobe hire next?

 

Sounds like Magic Johnson and Paul Westhead in 1981.

Part of the problem in the NBA is that a small group of star players have too much power. This is just the latest example.

That being said, I never understood why Brown was hired by the Lakers to start with. Never liked him when he was in Cleveland. Maybe they should go get Larry Brown, if he would tolerate the star show the NBA has become nowadays.

 

What a colossal mistake by Byron Scott to take the Cavs job a couple years ago rather than just wait til Phil retired and take over last season.

 

Not the shortest tenure ever, say Mike Price and George O'Leary.

 

Except that management had decided to fire Westhead days before Magic's outburst. Once they had decided to dump Westhead, Sharman asked Buss to wait a week or so to pull the trigger so he could see who was out there as a possible replacement.

Then Magic has his outburst, and Buss is flummoxed.

"NOW what do I do?" he asked Sharman and West. "If I fire Westhead, people will think it was because of Magic. And if I don't fire him, it WILL be because of Magic."

So they went ahead and stuck with the original plan, knowing Magic would be taking the heat for it.

"Magic fired Westhead" is just another one of those myths that will not die.

 

The players were already miserable during training camp...long practices with too much standing around, too much talking. None of the stars are 100%, the bench sucks, Brown was already on thin ice after season's early exit. If you're going to make the change eventually, make it now. But not going to be an easy fix for the next guy.

 

Who are you blaming this on? Kobe? Okay.

Not Brown for mismanaging rotations, minutes, offense, defense. Kobe fired him. Got it.

 

Go easy on Mark. It's confusing for him to choose which person to pin the blame on as both of them are black.

 

Wow.

5 games in. 77 games left.

Jumping the gun maybe?

 

Who's up now?

Back to Phil?
D'Antoni?
Kiss and make-up with Shaw?
Stick with Person?
Let Kobe be player/coach?