Brownout

The Pistons may very well lose tonight and end their season. If they do, the blame will fall squarely on Larry Brown and his flirtations with other jobs. ESPN.com has done a good job covering this and pretty well sums up what I've been thinking. Check out Adrian Wojnarowski's column here, a quote:

After winning that NBA title a season ago, Brown had a chance to reshape his legacy for the history books. He had a chance to end his career with far more dignity and grace than he had conducted it. But Brown showed once again that he's the most selfish and disingenuous coach the profession has ever spawned. No pupil has ever come closer to Dean Smith's genius on the floor, and gone further from his character off it.

As far as the job with the Cavaliers? Here's Marc Stein's take:

Larry Brown cannot be an effective personnel chief in the NBA. He can't be. He won't be. He sours on players far too quickly to be a level-headed talent evaluator. He is chronically, famously fickle.

No matter what happens, I don't think Larry Brown is going to have many friends in Detroit by the end of the month.