Andrew wrote:Here it is:

Brown claimed ignorance of the alleged interactions.

“I don’t have any recollection,” he told Bleacher Report. “I don’t, I don’t know … I don’t know what I called him, to be honest with you. If I did that, shame on me. I would feel terrible about that. That’s not who I am, but I don’t want to dispute Nate.”

I saw that. This just makes him look guilty.

People often called him a teacher. Well this makes him a pretty piss poor teacher. I defended the guy when he was here, too.

newyorknewyork wrote:It's very possible that Brown actually forgot what he said this. He was kind of nutz. During his time with the Pistons it was said he at some point tried to trade each player on the roster. He cried for Steve Francis and then wanted to trade him months later.

Same with Jalen Rose--thing was we all knew at the time they weren't his kind of players, so I have to assume he was just doing it to get IT fired. That seemed to be his main focus for year 1. It could have been even worse, Larry tried to get us to trade for that blazers SF who had a huge contract and had micro fracture surgery in his knee (and never recovered) can't remember his name. Also wanted us to land Kenyon Martin who also had a whopping contract and couldn't really play.

NardDogNation wrote:Maybe I'm dead emotionally but I could hardly give a ****. His coach called him him a "bad" name- so what? He's a man; suck that **** up and keep it moving. I'm sure fans have said much worse.

Besides, Nate doesn't strike me as the type of guy to allow any man to say something to him and not retaliate. Something about this story doesn't add up.

Has nothing to do with being a man. I remember there were reports of him having ADHD when he was a rookie. That goes hand in hand with depression.

At the end of the day, some people can handle it fine and some people can’t. Everyone has to be worked with differently. If Brown couldn’t do that with Nate and resorted to bullying tactics as a response, he deserved his eventual fate.

sealy wrote:

NardDogNation wrote:Maybe I'm dead emotionally but I could hardly give a ****. His coach called him him a "bad" name- so what? He's a man; suck that **** up and keep it moving. I'm sure fans have said much worse.

Besides, Nate doesn't strike me as the type of guy to allow any man to say something to him and not retaliate. Something about this story doesn't add up.

Gotta agree 100% here. I'm sure most of us have played ball in some organized fashion in our lives and coaches chew you out.

I live in White Plains, where many Knicks reside, and I cannot begin to tell you what a bad rep he had at a local gym here. He'd come in and start so much **** with all his boys that staff there would cringe when he'd come in. On the other hand, Jamal Crawford was basically the mayor and pretty sure he also played for Brown and now plays for Thibs so I'd be curious what his take is/was.

I take this article with a grain of salt because he always seemed to be an unbelievably athletic, chaotic, pain in the ass.

Just wanna note: Not a Larry Brown fan whatsoever.

wtf. depression is a real thing!
calling him "the little ****" is ok once or twice, but to do it repeatedly in practice AND to tell the entire team that he came into his office crying... what a fukkin ahole. i hope we never hire a coach like that again.