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Larry Brown
College - North Carolina '63
On July 28, 2005, Larry Brown was named head coach of the New York Knicks.

With a basketball resume that includes 33 years of coaching at the collegiate
or professional level, enshrinement into the Naismith Memorial Basketball
Hall of Fame’s Class of 2002, three ABA Coach of the Year awards, 2001 NBA
Coach of the Year honors, an NCAA Championship in 1988 and a NBA Championship
in 2004, Brown continues adding achievements to an outstanding coaching career.

Brown guided the 2003-04 Detroit Pistons to the NBA Championship in his first
year as head coach. He became the first coach to win a NCAA and NBA
Championship and the 12th coach in NBA history to win an NBA title in his
first season.

The following season, in 2004-05, Brown led Detroit to its second consecutive
NBA Finals appearance.

Brown has coached an NBA record seven different teams to the NBA Playoffs and
ranks fourth among all-time NBA coaches in playoff wins (85). He won his 900th
 career NBA game in 2003-04, becoming the seventh coach in NBA history to win
900 games (Lenny Wilkens, Don Nelson, Pat Riley, Bill Fitch, Red Auerbach,
Dick Motta).

Brown, who has posted a winning record in 29 of his 33 seasons as a
professional head coach or collegiate head coach, has compiled a 1,393-909
(.605) career record. In 22 NBA seasons he has a record of 987-741 (.571),
ranking fourth all-time among NBA coaches and first amongst active coaches.

The 64-year-old Brown joined the Pistons after spending six seasons with the
Philadelphia 76ers. The 2002-03 campaign marked the fifth-straight season
that the Sixers competed in the NBA Playoffs. After the team entered the
All-Star break with a 25-24 record, Brown guided the squad to nine-straight
wins, and put them in a position to challenge for the top spot in the
Atlantic Division and the Conference.

He won back-to-back NBA Coach of the Month honors in February and March,
his fourth and fifth such honors (January and April 2003 with Detroit,
November 2000 with Philadelphia, February 1994 with Indiana and March 1992
with the L.A. Clippers). Hired as the 17th head coach in 76ers history on May
5, 1997, Brown led the club to a nine-win improvement in his first season,
tying the seventh best single-season improvement in team history, and in
1998-99, led the club to its first winning season since 1990-91
and the NBA Playoffs.

2000-01 was a milestone season for Brown and the Sixers as the team recorded
its best year in nearly two decades. He led the club to 56 wins, the most
since 1984-85, the best record in the Eastern Conference and the Atlantic
Division title. In addition, he passed Gene Shue (784) for ninth place on the
all-time NBA coaching victory list, earned NBA Coach of the Year honors and
guided the team to the NBA Finals, his first trip in 18 years as an NBA coach.
Additional honors for Brown in 2001 included being named the NBA’s IBM Coach
of the Month for November, and guiding the Eastern Conference to a
come-from-behind victory as head coach in the 2001 NBA All-Star Game.

Hustle and defense are trademarks of a Larry Brown-coached team. Traditionally,
his teams are unselfish and compete every night. His teams have finished first
in the division six times (1976-77 and 1977-78 with Denver; 1989-90 and
1990-91 with San Antonio; 1994-95 with Indiana and 2000-01 with Philadelphia).

Prior to joining the Sixers, Brown spent four seasons (1993-94 to 1996-97) as
head coach of the Indiana Pacers and compiled a record of 190-138 (.579).
The Pacers’ all-time winningest NBA coach, he took the team to the playoffs
three times, including the Eastern Conference Finals twice. Before joining
Indiana, Brown was hired as head coach for the Los Angeles Clippers,
San Antonio Spurs, New Jersey Nets and Denver Nuggets, who he helped
transition from the ABA to the NBA in 1976-77. He took the Spurs
to the postseason twice (1990 and 1991), the Clippers twice (1992 and 1993),
the Nets once (1983) and the Nuggets twice (1977 and 1978).

Brown spent four seasons in the ABA, earning Coach of the Year honors three
times. After two seasons each with Carolina and Denver, Brown returned to the
collegiate ranks in 1979 as head coach at UCLA. The Bruins went to the
national championship game in Brown’s first year in Westwood. After a
two-year stint with the New Jersey Nets (1981-83), Brown would spend the next
five seasons as head coach at the University of Kansas, where he won the
national championship in 1988.

As a coach, Brown draws on his playing days where he was a member of the 1964
gold medal U.S. Olympic basketball team. In the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney,
Australia, Brown added another honor to his resume as an assistant coach on
the gold medal Team USA. He is the only U.S. male to both play and coach in
the Olympics. Serving as head coach of Team USA at the 2004 Olympic Games in
Athens, Brown led the United States team to a bronze medal. The three-time
ABA All-Star holds the ABA record with 23
assists in a game and was the Most Valuable Player of the ABA All-Star Game
in 1968.

Brown and his wife, Shelly, reside with their daughter, Madison (6) and son,
L.J. (9). The avid golfer also has two daughters, Kristen and Alli.




 CAREER COACHING
                REGULAR SEASON       POST SEASON
 YEAR         TEAM WINS LOSSES   PCT WINS LOSSES   PCT
 1976  Denver        50     32 0.610    2      4 0.333
 1977  Denver        48     34 0.585    6      7 0.462
 1978  Denver        28     25 0.528    0      0 0.000
 1981  New Jersey    44     38 0.537    0      2 0.000
 1982  New Jersey    47     29 0.618    0      0 0.000
 1988  San Antonio   21     61 0.256    0      0 0.000
 1989  San Antonio   56     26 0.683    6      4 0.600
 1990  San Antonio   55     27 0.671    1      3 0.250
 1991  L.A. Clippers
     / San Antonio   44     29 0.603    2      3 0.400
 1992  L.A. Clippers 41     41 0.500    2      3 0.400
 1993  Indiana       47     35 0.573   10      6 0.625
 1994  Indiana       52     30 0.634   10      7 0.588
 1995  Indiana       52     30 0.634    2      3 0.400
 1996  Indiana       39     43 0.476    0      0 0.000
 1997  Philadelphia  31     51 0.378    0      0 0.000
 1998  Philadelphia  28     22 0.560    3      5 0.375
 1999  Philadelphia  49     33 0.598    5      5 0.500
 2000  Philadelphia  56     26 0.683   12     11 0.522
 2001  Philadelphia  43     39 0.524    2      3 0.400
 2002  Philadelphia  48     34 0.585    6      6 0.500
 2003  Detroit       54     28 0.659   16      7 0.696
 2004  Detroit       54     28 0.659   15     10 0.600
 TOTALS             987    741  .571  100     89  .529