Mike Brown Fired by the Lakers, His Agent Says
Mike Brown has been fired as head coach of the Lakers, his agent told Sam Amick of USA Today.
So much for waiting on the homestand, coach!
That’s an awfully quick trigger finger. Maybe Phil Jackson said he was ready to return?
Within past 24 hours, Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak had pushed ownership to give Mike Brown more time before firing him, sources tell Y! Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) November 9, 2012
While my first guess is to scream this is all about Kobe … it sounds like ownership wasn’t happy with the direction of the team. But maybe ownership is taking its cues from Kobe? [USA Today Sports]
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November 9th, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Pretty outstanding self awareness to use the photo from the post where you said they should do this, I love it.
This morning their ESPN LA Thick Chick kept talking about how everything was fine as long as Kobe and the players “were cool” with Brown. I guess things heated up. Either that or ESPN’s reporters aren’t as clued in as advertised.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:07 PM
wow
player/coach Kobe?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Mike Brown Fired by Kobe, everybody else Says
November 9th, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Link? LINK?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:09 PM
You don’t want a link, I’m talking thick thick not TV thick. Double stuff.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:09 PM
Forgot about Dantoni. He’s got to be the hire right?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:10 PM
What about the boffo home-stand!?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:10 PM
ESPN’s reporters don’t have a clue in as advertised
November 9th, 2012 at 1:10 PM
So you’re saying she has more cushion for the pushin?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:11 PM
Stan Van is the obvious choice here.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:12 PM
I think he is talking about Shelley Smith. If that is the case, best not to provide a link.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:13 PM
SVG would be hilarious
November 9th, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Lakers need to trade for Tayshaun Prince and Rodney Stuckey. Send Artest and Darius Morris back.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:14 PM
You exaggerate.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:14 PM
I didn’t think it was Smith, as I didn’t throw up on myself at the time, but I could be wrong.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:17 PM
Ramona Shelburne
November 9th, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Is Don Nelson still alive?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Hawt.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:20 PM
This is hilarious.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Didn’t need to see her….
November 9th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
I saw Shelley Smith’s pink taco…
wait…that’s not right…I saw her at Pink Taco.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Ahem.
/ * sarcasm alert *
Bruce Weber!
/ * end sarcasm alert *
Hm-mm.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
The Lakers obviously don’t mess around. Good franchises typically don’t. Not sure it HAD to happen this fast, but it seemed like it would eventually happen so it might as well happen now so they have plenty of time to get someone new in there and get things right.
Phil Jackson?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Either way, you vomit, right?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
this team ain’t winning anything with that bench. phil won’t come back unless it’s g7 of the wcf
November 9th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Bring back Rudy T!
November 9th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Mike Woodson
November 9th, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Isiah Thomas. Book it.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Is Phil still banging Jerry Buss’ daughter?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
What kind of compensation will Atlanta get?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
I believe he expired in 2007, then retired a couple of years later.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
buy one big mac, get one free
my immediate future
November 9th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
NBA Live tournament winner coaches the team for the season.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
someone give ted nolan a chance!
November 9th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Why not?
Phil may not want the headache. Who else could you bring in who would instantly command respect? Pat Riley? Anybody else?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
The sad thing is, if Bengals fans heard “Mike Brown fired” out of context, Cincitucky would experience a spontaneous mass orgasm.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Bill Lambeer
November 9th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Skip the coffee, and don’t shit the press box.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Nate Silver must have projected them to have a 2-4 homestand.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:29 PM
The 13 Most Gruesome Album Covers
/NSFW
/Not safe if you just ate either..
November 9th, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Oooo forgot Jerry Sloan was still unemployed
November 9th, 2012 at 1:30 PM
You know, the soon-to-retire David Stern might be in the market for a new position …
November 9th, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Everyone knows he’s in the bag for the Clips.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Up to his bad hips in it. I don’t think they make this move without already knowing their next move. It will take a few days but they already know who the next coach is.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Nothing’s more gruesome than the picture of Billie Joe on that page. God.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Home Coach: Phil
Away Coach: Kobe
November 9th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
His coach of the year trophy.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Needs more Beatles “baby butcher” art.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Stoops!
//Did I do that right?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:34 PM
The same Bob Stoops that took Josh Heupel and 55 scrubs to the National Championship Game in 2001?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
Of course it’s all about Kobe. They’re fucking with his legacy, man. He’s barely in the Jordan discussion with 6 titles, no way he gets there without #6.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
D’Antoni can’t do it as he just had surgery and is out for 6 weeks, according to Bucher.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
I thought Brown was just given one of those…shit. What’s that thing called in soccer where the owner says things are cool and we support the coach and he will be our coach but then fires him soon after?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Don’t get the Stoops hate. That program was garbage when he took over. If you look at his career it mirrors what Tom Izzo has done in college hoops – both won titles in the ’00 season with a bunch of losses in BCS games/Final 4′s since then. Both guys have their teams in contention every year with few exceptions.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Stoops gets far superior talent on his team. Izzo does more with much less.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:41 PM
I wonder how that happens.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:41 PM
Believe it or not, there are people complaining about this.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
I’m a big Michigan honk, but if my kid had major D1 basketball talent I’d send him to MSU in a second.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
I guess Mike Brown didn’t keep his head on a swivel.
/that escalated quickly.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
So Izzo is a shitty recruiter?
November 9th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
I haven’t watched any Laker games yet this year but have watched enough Cavs games to know that Mike Brown definitely deserved to be fired.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
I’m just saying he doesn’t get the elite one n done’s.
November 9th, 2012 at 1:49 PM
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 9th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Brian Shaw
November 9th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
WOOSH!
November 9th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
I think that is by design. I can’t remember where I saw it but I remember reading an article that said he isn’t really interested in those types of players
November 9th, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Bring back Frank Hamblen. Dude got a raw deal first time around.
November 9th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLL?
November 9th, 2012 at 2:13 PM
The first two big macs were so good i got two more
/eating away the pain
November 9th, 2012 at 2:20 PM
I’m hearing Jerry Sloan by December 1st.
November 9th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
This way he gets all the credit for their success. Not saying that’s his motive, but it is the end result.
November 9th, 2012 at 2:41 PM
yeah, blame mike brown for dwight howard not being totally healthy, the bench being one of the worst in the league, and steve nash getting hurt…
November 9th, 2012 at 7:42 PM
That would be the dreaded vote of confidence.