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JGKoblenz · 04-21-2004, 06:22 PM

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The playoffs hadn't yet begun when Hubie Brown shared two provocative proclamations with us.

No matter what was about to happen against the San Antonio Spurs, Brown was already ready to say that "this is probably the best coaching job I've ever done."

And ...

"If I were voting as a TNT employee," Hubie said, "I would vote Jerry Sloan for Coach of the Year. I hope he wins it."

The bloody Spurs and the blasted voters have dashed Hubie's hopes. San Antonio's withering defense snuffed Memphis twice to welcome the Grizzlies to playoff basketball. The majority of Coach of the Year ballot-holders, meanwhile, have apparently decided that the 70-year-old who took the Grizz -- the Grizz -- from 28 wins to 50 had no choice but to extend Sloan's COY drought in Utah to 16 seasons.

"I sat down the other day and counted this up," Brown said. "There are 10 guys you can legitimately vote for in the Coach of the Year (category). I hope (Sloan) wins because he has been overlooked on a minimum of three -- maybe five -- occasions. He has done a marvelous job with that Utah team. He's a man's man and a great coach and if I were voting, that's who I would vote for."

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Nice to see Hubie giving Sloan credit.

**Locke** · 04-21-2004, 06:33 PM

That really is a classy thing for him to say that. Most people would never admit they thought someone else deserved an award or something more than they did.

**JazzMan** · 04-22-2004, 02:19 AM

THat's nice to read. It's a shame he's missed out again.

Hubie deserves enormous credit for what he has achieved, and I can't say he doesn't deserve the award, but SLoan does too. But there can be only 1 winner.

**Arclite** · 04-22-2004, 03:18 PM

It was a very, very close race.. Hubie got 62 first place votes and Sloan got 56..

**Geaux Tigers** · 05-13-2004, 09:39 PM

well they are both from the fricken jurrasic period

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