래리 브라운, 올 시즌 후 사임할지도(건강상 문제)

[nick1]

디트로이트의 래리 브라운 감독이 올 시즌 끝나고 건강상 문제로 물러날지도 모른다고 하네요.
의사들이 그의 건강을 체크하고 있다고 합니다.
아마 비뇨기 쪽에 문제가 있는 것 같다는 이야기입니다.
브라운 감독은 올 시즌 도중 건강이 안 좋아 여러 차례 자리를 비운 적이 있죠.

Larry Brown might leave Detroit, and there's a medical reason why

By CHRIS SHERIDAN, AP Basketball Writer
May 26, 2005

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- An unspoken secret seems to envelop the Detroit Pistons, the expectation that Larry Brown won't be around next season.

The broad outline of an exit strategy is already in place for the coach, the future day-to-day developments sketched out in pencil.

All indications point to another of Brown's many departures, with doctors' orders already the designated culprit.

Only this time, it's serious.

What's different now is that Brown is sicker than the public knows, and the public wouldn't be so quick to think he was deviously plotting another vagabondish train-hop if it knew the whole story.

Brown's health problem is related to his bladder and was a result of complications from hip replacement surgery, and he said his life has not been the same since Nov. 3 when difficulties developed.

``I don't want to continue coaching with what I have to deal with,'' Brown said in an interview with The Associated Press and the Pistons' four newspaper beat writers. ``If it's cleared up, then we won't even have an issue.''

Whether the defending NBA champion Pistons win another title -- they lost to Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal and Miami 92-86 Wednesday night in the Eastern Conference finals, leaving them tied at 1 going into Sunday night's game at Detroit -- Brown is checking into a hospital a day or two after the season ends.

He is not comfortable discussing his condition publicly. It is not life-threatening, but it is serious. And Brown decided in the middle of this season to put off treatment, which likely will include surgery, until after the season ends.

There will then be a period of a few days in which the Pistons will have to announce if they'll wait on Brown, whose chances of a full recovery -- based upon what his doctors are telling him -- are far from guaranteed.

``I think within 72 hours (of the end of the season) I'll be able to let (team president Joe Dumars) know. If he wants to make a change before that, I can accept that,'' Brown said Wednesday after the issue of his future flared up again.

The latest dustup came after it was reported that Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert had asked for the Pistons' permission to speak to Brown about possibly becoming the Cavaliers' team president. Brown said he has never met Gilbert and has no knowledge of ever speaking to him (Brown noted that Gilbert was once a Pistons' season-ticket holder, and he may have met him before Gilbert purchased the Cavs).

Other teams have also made it known to Brown that they'd be interested in bringing him aboard in a front office position, but whether any of those teams have received permission to speak to Brown's representatives is not clear.

Brown insists he has been upfront about everything with Dumars, and he understands Dumars' need to have a Plan B ready in case Brown's medical condition forces him to give up coaching.

``My goal is to do the best job I can here, and then hopefully be a coach, because that's what I do. If I can't, then I'll deal with that,'' Brown said.

``This is my last coaching job,'' he said. ``The only place I'm going to coach next season, or ever, is Detroit, I think, in terms of ever.''

The easiest way out for the Pistons and Brown could be a mutual parting of the ways.

It could be until August before Brown knows whether his recovery -- if he recovers -- will allow him to return to the sidelines.

Brown said it would be unfair to make the Pistons wait on him, and he also knows there are quite a few unemployed coaching candidates out there -- Phil Jackson and Flip Saunders head the list -- who need to know exactly which jobs are going to be open before they decide where they'll go.

The New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers are believed to be the leading candidates to hire Jackson, who won nine NBA titles -- one shy of Red Auerbach's record -- while coaching the Chicago Bulls and Lakers. The Sacramento Kings and Portland Trail Blazers also reportedly have interest.

Jackson has said he expects to make a decision on his future by early to mid-June, and that timetable could be affected if the Pistons are eliminated by the Heat.

The Heat's victory in Game 2 has ensured that the series will last at least until June 2.



Updated on Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:01 pm EDT

[dinggu]

또 하나의 명장이 사라 지는 것인가..........어쨌든 아이버슨이 조금더 만개 할 수있으려나 디트만나면.........빨리 건강 회복하시길.........

[sunman]

방광과 엉덩이에 문제가 생겨 이미 2차례 수술받았다고 하던데요........... 올시즌이 감독으로선 마지막해가 될 가능성도 크다고 봐야겠네여! 클블의 길버트 구단주가 래리할배 모셔오려고 애쓰네요~

[유디드굿잡~!]

이런일이... 클블이 과연 대려갈 수 있을 지.. 개인적으로 길버트 구단주 별로 마음에 안든다는...ㅡㅡ

[안드레이 다니시게]

순간 허걱~ 했습니다. 왜 제 눈에는 순간적으로 사임이 사망으로 보였는지..ㅋㅋㅋ