Mike Brown

Not so fast... In sports, sometimes the worst thing for a coach is a vote of confidence. Mike Brown (Los Angeles Lakers) Vote of Confidence: November 8, 2012 Bald-Faced Lie: “I have no problem with Mike Brown at all…I’m not a basketball mind like he is, and the players are fine with [the Princeton offense], so I just have to be patient.”  —Executive vice president Jerry Buss Firing Date: November 10, 2012 Post-Mortem: Evidently, patience means 48 hours, because Buss broke a land-speed record to ditch Brown just five games into the season — the equivalent of an NFL ...