(SPORTS I1 .....1111111•1111111111111ir... .411111111111111111111111•111111111111111116. Free ennis An one Larry Brown 111111111111110111. 111.111 11111111111 111•111.111111111111111 ■ Continued from preceding page ■ 111111i IMO ............ /////7/,/,0 arn ■■ 11111116111Ria ► w -11 41111111111111111111111Pr . Tennis is back! . . . In the newly completed Edward and Shirley Rosenberg Recreation Complex. Come and tour our newest facility at the Jewish Community Center and if you join the center as a member in October you can receive up to - - 6 free hours of Court Time (A Value of up to $150) !! • Promotion good during October 1989 only • Must not have been a member in the past 12 months • Non-transferable • Tennis court time must be used by November 30th, 1989 • Payment plans available • JPM & Social memberships not included For more information contact the Membership Office at 661-1000, ext. 265, 266. 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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 Jewish War Veterans Bowling League SEPTEMBER 20, 1989 Larry Garfinkle ... 247-203 Jerry Superstine 231 Herb Bogorad230-212 (635) Steve Hoberman 214 Mark Goodman . . . . 207-205 Louis Zucker 200