By John McMullen
Larry Brown will be available to coach another basketball team very soon.
Only the terms of a buyout between the New York Knicks and Brown, terms that could be worth $40 million for the gypsy of the basketball world, stand between Larry and yet another coaching stop.
And that has to make you think...Can Brown fix the Sixers for a second time?
Perhaps...he's the best pure basketball coach in the world and he certainly understands how to build a team around Allen Iverson.
His protege, Billy King, hasn't been able to figure out how to accentuate Iverson's unique talents, even though Brown left him the blueprint.
Most thought King was nothing but a yes man for Larry and forced to fly on his own, he has been a colossal failure as the head of the Sixers' basketball operations.
Larry could come in tomorrow and build another a contender with the team's meal ticket, Iverson. You could bet the next generation of role players like Eric Snow, Aaron McKie, Tyrone Hill, Raja Bell and Bruce Bowen would be earmarked for Philly while one-dimensional clods like Chris Webber, Kyle Korver and Willie Green would be booking flights out of town.
Andre Iguodala and Samuel Dalembert would start utilizing their vast defensive talents or they would join the aforementioned flotsam in other cities.
But, it's all just a dream...There is just too much baggage.
Everyone who comes in contact with Brown eventually grows to dislike him.
And Ed Snider is at the front of a very long and ever-increasing line in that regard.
So we are stuck with Snider and King, one executive who doesn't care about anything that isn't orange and black and another who rivals Isiah Thomas' incompetence.
-You can reach John McMullen at jmcmullen1@comcast.net
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