On Thursday, the National Basketball Coaches Association announced Larry Brown as the recipient of the 2021 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the game of basketball throughout his coaching career, which began in 1965 as an assistant to Dean Smith…
One day last summer, SMU assistant coach Jerry Hobbie looked over the roster that his boss, Larry Brown, had been holding while attending a recruiting camp. The sheet had scrawls all over, but they weren’t Brown’s thoughts on the players he was supposed to be evaluating…
Larry Brown coached the University of Kansas Jayhawks to the NCAA men’s basketball championship in 1988. A decade and a half later, Brown guided the Detroit Pistons to the 2004 NBA championship, becoming the only coach to ever to lead team to both an NCAA and NBA championship…
At the age of 72, with the Naismith Hall of Fame on his résumé and his standing as the only basketball coach ever to have won both an NCAA championship and an NBA championship, you have to wonder why Larry Brown is riding the team bus nearly four hours down I-35 through Waco, Georgetown…