Friday, November 9th, 2012 at 12:35 pm  |  158 responses

Mike Brown Fired By the Los Angeles Lakers (UPDATE)


by Marcel Mutoni / @marcel_mutoni

UPDATE: Um … wow! According to USA Today, Mike Brown is no longer gainfully employed. The Lakers fired their head coach, a day after saying his job was safe: “Mike Brown has been fired by the Los Angeles Lakers, according to his agent Warren Legarie. The Lakers are off to a 1-4 start and will play Golden State tonight at the Staples Center.”

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Publicly, the Los Angeles Lakers — everyone from management to players with influence — are saying all of the right, re-assuring things about Mike Brown.

However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the team’s disappointing 1-4 start to the season has the sharks circling around the embattled head coach.

Unemployed coaches are rumored to be interested in Brown’s job, and there’s now talk that management is losing patience with him.

Per ESPN:

Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike Brown’s job would be in immediate jeopardy if the team’s six-game homestand is unsuccessful, according to sources close to the situation.

Sources said that the Lakers, while having publicly expressed support for Brown in the wake of a 1-4 start, have privately grown sufficiently concerned about the state of the team to the point that management is prepared to look seriously at a coaching change at this early juncture if L.A. can’t take advantage of what look to be multiple winnable games in the upcoming stretch.

Believe it or not, there is good news on the horizon for Mike Brown. In theory, anyway: the Lakers have a long, and easy homestand starting tonight, and their record should look a lot more respectable in the coming days.

It’s going to be a fascinating season for the Lakers and Mike Brown. Whether he survives it, remains very much up in the air.

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  • spit hot fiyah

    i know that, he is also great facing up. which would make him something other that the definite back to the basket player.

  • Conor

    How is Bryant Brutus in this context? Maybe if Bizarro Caesar (Brown) hadn’t failed to make adequate offensive strategies which prevented the Empire’s (Lakers’) expansion. But Bizarro Caesar did, and so maybe Logic itself is Bizarro Brutus?

    A more relevant Caesar/Brutus comparison would be Jim Buss/Phil Jackson.

  • Conor

    Er… *Caesar/Brutus=Jackson/Jim Buss

  • Conor

    HaHaHaHa

    How many Lakers games have you seen over the past year? Brown’s rotations were useless, and the roles he had players abide by were simply wrong. Meeks, McRoberts, and Goudelock accumulated inexplicable DNP-CDs, LA’s ex-coach allowed Bryant unbridled control over every offensive set last season (his most inefficient, statistically), played MWP at shooting guard, Jamison at small forward, had Howard & Gasol bridge their offence from the arc (?!), and did not even establish the Lakers as a defensive juggernaut, which was where his supposed coaching gift would bear fruit.

    Mike Brown had much blame to accept for the Lakers’ failings.

  • Conor

    Their defense will be fine. Jackson will right the ship.

    But if those worries remains in March, there may be a fundamental problem that would force me to agree with you. LA buckles down in the Playoffs, though. Most importantly, MWP/Howard – their two best defensive players – aren’t even in proper game rhythm.

  • Kilo

    This is the worst firing in the history of professional sports and Jim buss is a fool.

  • Dutch Rich

    obrigado

  • shockexchange

    Touche’

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