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keep the Spurs' job "perfect"
for a while.
Brown's athletic career
began at Long Beach High on
Long Island, N.Y, then follow-
ed the "underground
railway" to North Carolina
University, where he played
for the legendary Frank
McGuire and Dean Smith.
Smith was coach of the U.S.
Maccabi Games team when
star point guard Brown was a
team member. Blown was an
All-Atlantic Coast Conference
player and honorable men-
tion All-America.
lb retain his amateur stan-
ding, he played on the Akron
Goodyear AAU team, then
returned to North Carolina
after the Olympics to become
freshman coach. One of
Brown's players was Eddie
Fogler, who also became a
Tar-heel assistant coach and
Maccabi Games coach before
becoming a head coach at
Wichita State University and
then at Vanderbilt.
Three years later, the ABA
was formed and Brown
, became a star with the New
Orleans Buccaneers for five
years, then the Oakland Oaks
— ABA champions in 1969 —
and finally Denver.
After ending his playing
career, he coached Carolina in
1972-73 and they won the
Eastern Division ABA finals
while posting a fine 52-27
mark. The next season they
slipped to 47-37, but still
made the playoffs.
In 1974, Brown began
coaching the Denver Nug-
gets. They posted a 65-19
record and won the Western-
Division finals. The next year
- they were 60-24, losing the
league championship.
In 1976, Denver was one of
the ABA teams that merged
with the NBA, and Brown
proved he could coach with
the sport's best. His teams
went 50-32 and 48-34, win-
ning their division each year
before he was fired in the
1978-79 season. The next two
years he was at UCLA,'
posting 22-10 and 20-7
records.
Suddenly he jumped to New
Jersey of the NBA, getting
them into the playoffs twice
in a row, with 44-38 and 49-33
records. But then it was back
to the campus and five years
at Kansas, climaxing with
the national championship.
Observers have different
reasons why Larry Brown is
such a fine coach.
"He wins because of the
way he is, not because of what
he does. It rubs off on his
players," says Dog Moe, his
former teammate with
Denver and his successor as
Nuggets coach.
"He is a fierce competitor

and extremely dedicated to
the task; and he has a per-
sonal interest in each of his
players," says Bob Bass, a
Spurs official.
"I selected the coach I
believe is the best basketball
coach in the world,"said Spurs
owner Red McCombs. "Larry
has always been in the hero
category to me for what he
has done not only on the
court, but also with the lives
he has influenced."
Off the court, Brown has
been involved with U.S.
Olympic basketball teams
and with the Special Olym-
pics, too.
If the coming season, with
Robinson on hand, might be

Larry Brown
considered Brown's "first"
with the Spurs, then rival
coaches better be prepared.
Only 10 times in the history
of the ABA and NBA has a
team improved 20 wins or
more over the previous season
— and Larry Brown coached
three of those teams. In his
first year at Carolina, the
team got 22 more wins than
the year before; at Denver, 28
more wins; and New Jersey,
20 more wins.
Last
year,
Brown's
mysterious headaches and
ear pain forced him to
undergo all sorts of tests
before it was found to be caus-
ed by clenching his teeth due
to stress.
"I'm surprised I would have
anything stress-related," he
commented, "bcause I'm the
kind of person who tries to let
everything out."
This season, Brown and the
Spurs may be giving other
NBA teams and coaches
mysterious headaches. 111

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