Another year, another new team to coach for Larry Brown.

On Tuesday, Brown was introduced as the Charlotte Bobcats’ new head coach, the ninth NBA team he will lead. The Hall of Famer will look to improve on his last go-around in the league, a horrendous 23-59 season with the New York Knicks two years ago. Thankfully, this time should be different.

Michael Jordan, the Bobcats’ Managing Member of Basketball Operations and a part-owner of the team, was the man that hired Brown. When Jordan was in the Washington Wizards’ front office, he tried to hire Brown to the same position but failed to do so. After a year as an executive vice president in the Philadelphia 76ers’ organization, Brown accepted Jordan’s second offer to coach his team. Read more »

The Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns knew that adjustments had to be made if they were to make a run at an NBA championship. Neither of their longshot trade experiments - the Mavs’ with Jason Kidd and the Suns’ with Shaquille O’Neal - panned out, as the Mavs were eliminated by the New Orleans Hornets and the Suns by the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night.

Forcing the action on the trade market, which the crowded Western Conference forced these two teams to do in February, is rarely a good move. It’s easy to say in retrospect that these were foolish deals to make, but they were foolish far before the two teams were bounced from the playoffs. Read more »