Article Reveals More Knicks Horror and Allen Iverson’s Unabashed Affection for Larry Brown’s Mother
Granted, the Sixers aren’t having the most memorable season, but the one great takeaway so far is this: They’re not the New York Knicks. The venerable organization’s ongoing publicity nightmare since, oh, Isiah Thomas arrived, has spawned plenty of stories detailing just how horrible it is to be associated with this team in any way. Even the press corps is just miserable.
No wonder, then, that our February article “Larry in Winter”, by Anthony Gargano, — in which the former Sixers (and Knicks!) coach offers even more enlightenment about the depressing atmosphere in Knickerbockerland — has been a goldmine for sports pages everywhere today. (It’s fun and easy to hate the Knicks.) The Times, the N.Y. Post and the N.Y. Daily News all hopped on the Philly Mag story, especially Brown’s claims that there were MSG “spies” everywhere he went.
Perhaps even more interesting, though, might be the piece’s new look at the prickly love/hate relationship between the coach and his most famous student, Allen Iverson:
Is it any wonder that Brown says if he were to write his memoirs, the title would be “I’ve Been Motherfucked 1,200 Times”? Because, he says, he coached Allen Iverson for 600 games, took him out of a game two times, and both times, Iverson called him a motherfucker 600 times.
And, to think, that experience was still 1,000 times better than working for the Knicks.
Larry in Winter [Philadelphia magazine]
Larry Brown + Knicks [Google]