07-27-2005, 01:03 PM
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What would have happened if Larry Brown actually came to the Cavs?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...nba/index.html
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With the fortunes of the hometown team seemingly assured, picture the typical Cleveland Cavaliers fan donning his or her usual stylish nighttime wear and shuffling off to bed: unaware, of course, that a vivid nightmare awaits. Tossing and turning, the fan imagines a work day spent scouring newspaper Web sites -- if only to follow the impending arrival of a creature so vile the fan can barely speak its name.
Larry Brown!
With terror-stricken eyes, the fan reads all about Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert's late-July weekend in the Hamptons, spent plying the former Pistons coach and his family with Cavs paraphernalia -- complete with mini replica LeBron James-issue Hummers for the kids. The fan reads about Brown's signing as president of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Spinning the computer mouse with a heavy heart, the fan reads about Brown's "eagerness" to learn the ways of an NBA GM and how the peripatetic coach is "confident" he'll create a winning team to surround James despite the scores of free agents who have already committed to other teams.
The Cavs fan groans while reading new Knicks GM Danny Ferry has secured the rights to All-Star center Zydrunas Ilgauskas and guard Larry Hughes in sign-and-trade deals. The fan mutters while reading Gilbert's plea to Ray Allen and Michael Redd to "Boozer-ize their teams, and come play for us!" The fan's loudest shriek is saved for a note at the end of the article, something about Brown bringing aboard the newly unemployed Isiah Thomas as his second-in-command. "After all," Brown says, "I could use the help crunching numbers, and nobody knows how to spend other people's money like Isiah."
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