Coach Mike Brown

[King]

Cavs look at defensive specialist
The NBA swap meet is starting but just where the Cavaliers are positioning themselves is still murky.

The club has received permission to interview Indiana Pacers associate head coach Mike Brown. He will meet with members of the Cavaliers ownership group today.

A defensive specialist who won a championship ring while on the San Antonio Spurs bench in 2003, Brown is regarded as one of the league's top assistants. He has worked in the NBA for 13 years, rising from video coordinator to scout to assistant to associate head coach.

``He's one of the bright coaches out there,'' Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh told The Indianapolis Star. ``He's a young coach that has the whole package.''

Several other events in the NBA affected the Cavaliers on Monday. According to reports, the Orlando Magic have decided to hire New Jersey Nets assistant Brian Hill as their coach. The Philadelphia 76ers fired coach Jim O'Brien and hired former Portland Trail Blazers coach Maurice Cheeks, who spoke with the Cavaliers recently about their opening.

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Looks like another candidate to add to the list.

 

[NarlCavs]

Re: Mike Brown?

Brown might have potential but there's no way I want him as the next Cavs coach. They need to go after a quality coach with some type of successful track record. Brown is a 2nd rate candidate who the Cavs can't settle for. I'm tired of having to settle for a head coach instead of getting a top available coach.

 

[Karma]

Re: Mike Brown?

I wouldn't neccessarily say that Brown was 2nd rate. I would have him behind Musselman and Saunders, but definately in the next bracket. I really do hope we are chasing Musselman as he seems the most realistic quality target.

 

[Glen Infante]

Re: Mike Brown?

A source said the Cavaliers interviewed Pacers associate head coach Mike Brown yesterday for their head-coaching vacancy.

He is the fifth person known to have interviewed for the job, including Phil Jackson, Flip Saunders, Eric Musselman and Maurice Cheeks.

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If hired -- and some people around the league think he's a legitimate candidate -- he'd be the second-youngest coach in the league. The only coach who would be younger is 34-year-old Lawrence Frank of New Jersey.

Brown, 35, is known as a defensive specialist, an area Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert wants to shore up. The Cavaliers allowed 96.5 points per game in 2004-05, 11th in the NBA.

Brown, who played two seasons at the University of San Diego, worked under two of the league's top coaches -- San Antonio's Gregg Popovich and Indiana's Rick Carlisle. He was on Popovich's coaching staff in 2002-03 when the Spurs won an NBA title.

He interviewed for the Toronto and Atlanta jobs in the summer of 2004, and is known as one of the league's up-and-coming assistants.

''He's been great for this organization,'' Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh told the Indianapolis Star. ''He's one of the bright coaches out there. When you talk to him, you think he's in his 40s. He's a young coach that has the whole package.''

Pacers senior vice president of basketball administration David Morway has also been under consideration by the Cavaliers. The New York Post reported that Morway's position is not for general manager, however, but as the team's capologist.

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[King]

Re: Mike Brown?

I want someone more proven, but I like what I hear about this guy. He was the defensive specialist for some of the best defensive teams in the league, the Spurs and Pacers. I would be satisfied if we picked up both this guy and Morway from Ind.

 

[NarlCavs]

Re: Mike Brown?

Brown is a hire that would be made by organizations like the Hawks or Raptors. I want the Cavs to be better than that and not continue to be one of the lowly organizations in the league.
No more settling for career assistants or candidates not considered in the top tier of available coaches.
It's time to go after a more proven, higher profile coach.

 

[Pioneer10]

Re: Mike Brown?

I wouldn't be necessarily adverse to these guy but isn't the goal this year to attract FA's since basically money and cap space are the only tools we have to improve our squad?

I'm not sure how these guys make Cleveland more attractive to guys like Redd

 

[RichOne]

Re: Mike Brown?

mike browns name is starting to heat up along with more larry brown talk...

Cavaliers remain in holding pattern

By Brian Windhorst, Beacon Journal sports writer

Until the Detroit Pistons finish their playoff run, the Cavaliers will likely remain grounded.


Pistons coach Larry Brown is believed to be Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert's top choice to become his president of basketball operations. The team is expected to wait on Brown's answer before proceeding to fill general manager and head coach openings.

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According to a source close to the search, Gilbert was impressed with Pacers associate head coach Mike Brown after his interview for the Cavaliers' vacant coaching job earlier this week. But while he might have become a leader in the search, things could change if Larry Brown comes aboard.


NBA insiders suggest that if he leaves the Pistons and chooses not to coach again, Larry Brown could look to former assistant John Calipari as a candidate to work for him as a coach in Cleveland.


Calipari just completed his fifth season as the coach at the University of Memphis, where his teams have gone 115-55. He was on Larry Brown's staff at the University of Kansas and with the Philadelphia 76ers.


He went 72-112 in two-plus seasons as coach and vice president of the New Jersey Nets from 1996-98, leading the team to the playoffs in 1998. He was also a successful coach at the University of Massachusetts.


Calipari was traveling Thursday and unavailable for comment.


He is signed with Memphis until 2010 but has been a candidate for other high-profile college jobs and NBA positions in recent years.


Mike Brown, 35, is regarded as one of the brightest young coaching candidates in the league. A coach that makes defense his top priority is believed to be very important to Gilbert, and Mike Brown has a reputation as an excellent defensive coach. He also has some minor ties to Larry Brown, as he worked for one of his friends, Gregg Popovich, in San Antonio.


Messages for Brian Windhorst can be left at bwindhor@thebeaconjournal.com Check out Windhorst's Cavaliers Web log at http://clevelandcavs.blogspot.com

 

[NarlCavs]

Re: Mike Brown?

It just seems sad to me that a month or so ago we were talking about Phil Jackson and Flip Saunders as head coach. Now we've sunk down to the level of Mike Brown and John Calipari.
So far the most important summer in Cavs history doesn't appear to be shaping up too nicely.

It appears to me that if Larry Brown does become team president that he prefers a coach he can control and have lots of influence over rather than a more proven or highly regarded coach.
Ric Bucher also mentioned in an ESPN chat today that if Larry Brown comes to the Cavs than Mike Brown is a very strong possibility.

 

[Karma]

Re: Mike Brown?

ESPN just reported Mike Brown is now in contract negotiations with the Cavalier's. I dont know if this is a further development or not, but it is sounding more and more serious between the Cavaliers and Indiana's defensive specialist Mike Brown.

 

[RichOne]

Re: Mike Brown?

what a strange way, i guess, to build a $375 million investment. i know that mike brown maybe a defesive specialist, hell he might of blown gilbert away with interviews, he might even be a hella of a coach. but this guy should not be first choice. the nba is about star power. we have NO draft picks this year. it is hard enough to build a team with free agnecy, but this is what we have to. mike brown is not going to lure any one here.. lebron james and his mystique is not enough to attract anyone here. in my mind the coach we brought in was going to play a vital role for years to come on who signs with the cavs.

so know the top of the orginization is starting to look like this

larry brown- president

danny ferry- gm... rumors are he is the leading canidate.

mike brown- coach

larry brown is not going to draw anyone to cleveland. and danny ferry, altough i think that one day he would be a good gm, not in the cavs most important offseason.. ferry and brown both should be second tier gm and coaches this team should worry about. if it gets to that point then it will be a summer of me scratching my head in wonder..

i hope that gilbert realizes that $375 investment, with out lebron james is worth about $5......

 

[West Remy]

Cavs seem set to fill coach void

Pacers’ Brown likely choice

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Branson Wright
Plain Dealer Reporter

It appears Indiana Pacers assistant Mike Brown will be the next Cavaliers head coach. Two sources familiar with the situation said Friday night that Brown and the Cavs are negotiating on a contract.

The Cavs interviewed Brown earlier in the week and the sources said the team was impressed. Brown, 35, has spent the last two years as Indiana coach Rick Carlisle's top assistant. Brown, who came to Indiana after three years as an assistant in San Antonio, is responsible for a Pacers' defense that finished sixth in the league in points allowed.

Brown said earlier this week that a head-coaching position is a major goal. The news on Brown comes the same day Memphis John Calipari said he was not interested in the Cavs' job.

"It has always been a dream of mine," Brown said. "I love the game of basketball and I think the ultimate thing is winning a championship and the next thing is running your own team."

Brown is considered one of the NBA's top young assistant coaches. He also interviewed last season for the Atlanta head-coaching position that eventually went to Mike Woodson. It looks like Brown's time has finally arrived and Charlotte coach Bernie Bickerstaff is happy for his former assistant. Brown joined the Wizards in 1997 as an assistant to Bickerstaff.

"There's no doubt about it that he deserves this shot," said Bickerstaff, about the Cavs' opening. "The confidence they showed in him in Indiana by making him the associate coach under Carlisle is a compliment in itself. Mike is a hard worker and he just needs the opportunity."

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has no doubt in Brown's ability as a head coach.

"He has a great knowledge of the game and a great passion for the game at both ends of the court," Popovich said to reporters Thursday in San Antonio."

 

[Glen Infante]

Re: Mike Brown?

We are getting closer and closer, it's about time Gilbert is starting to finalizing this coaching situation. But it really would have been nicer to have a GM first...

 

[Pioneer10]

Re: Mike Brown?

We are getting closer and closer, it's about time Gilbert is starting to finalizing this coaching situation. But it really would have been nicer to have a GM first...

Good point: as we've found out this year. The coach and GM need to be on the same page

 

[West Remy]

Brown To Coach Cavs

Brown To Coach Cavs

Plain Dealer - The Cleveland Cavaliers have finally settled on a head coach.

Two sources on friday night said the Cavaliers and Indiand Pacers assistant coach Mike Brown were negotiating a contract.

Being a head coach someday has been a major goal for Brown.

"It has always been a dream of mine," Brown said. "I love the game of basketball and I think the ultimate thing is winning a championship and the next thing is running your own team."

RealGM says it's a done deal but the link they give us is the same story I posted above. Things should be finalized soon.