Counting the ABA's Carolina Cougars, the Bobcats will be Brown's 10th job as a professional basketball coach. He's a turnaround specialist in that he likes to take teams with losing records and make them winners. He has a career winning percentage of 0.577. Here is a list of his team's records before and after his arrival:
Denver Nuggets: 37-47 ?> 65-19
New Jersey Nets: 24-58 ?> 44-38
San Antonio Spurs: 31-51 ?> 21-61 ?> 56-26
Los Angeles Clippers: took over a 22-25 team and went 23-12 down the stretch, went 41-41 the next season
Indiana Pacers: 41-41 ?> 47-35
Philadelphia 76ers: 22-60 ?> 31-51 ?> 28-22 ?> 49-33
Detroit Pistons: 50-32 ?> 54-28 (NBA Champions)
New York Knicks: 33-49 ?> 23-59
As with the Spurs and the Sixers, it sometimes takes Brown two or more seasons to turn his team into a winner. The only team that Brown left as a loser without at least one 52+ win season was the Knicks, and if he hadn't clashed with ...
Found April 29, 2008 on
The Scores Report:
PLAYERS:
Raymond Felton,
Emeka Okafor
TEAMS: Charlotte Bobcats, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons, New Jersey Nets, San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers
TEAMS: Charlotte Bobcats, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons, New Jersey Nets, San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers
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On the other hand,
In statistics, you throw out the aberrations (outliers), and I think the Knicks job, with all its external factors, qualifies as an aberration.
He can be flaky, but if he has the support of management, he can turn a loser into a winner in three or four years.
Hard to argue that the odds are against him succeeding, no? The consequence of MJ being wrong is that he will have to pay LB a large sum of money for nothing (as the Sixers, Pistons and Knicks did) Come to think of it, MJ is seldom right as it is. I'm not saying it is impossible that the Bobcats are a contender in 4 years, but I'd bet pretty hard against it.
The bottom line is that if he can turn the Bobcats into one of the better defensive teams in the East, a winning record isn't far off.
He's 67, by the way. He'll be 68 in September.