Re: Mr. Class, Larry Brown

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

That was just swell of Larry, soon he'll have the Spring off to review his
thoughts.

DanF
----- Original Message -----
From: "James A. Hill" <jahill@leasingservice.com>
To: "Celtics (E-mail)" <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:35 PM
Subject: Mr. Class, Larry Brown


> Did anyone else see this?  This is why Larry Brown is a class act.  I'm
not
> sure how many coaches, down two games in a best of five, with minutes on
the
> clock, would attempt to keep the other teams go-to-guy in the game.....
>
> Amazing person.
>
> <Jim
>
> From insidehoops.com:
>
> "The Celtics' Paul Pierce and the Sixers' Allen Iverson already had been
> called for a double technical. When Pierce and the Sixers' Aaron McKie got
> in each other's face, McKie was hit with a technical. And, as the
officials
> were pointing toward players, it appeared Pierce might be assessed another
> technical, which would have meant an ejection. And that is when Sixers
coach
> Larry Brown, who believes dearly in the sanctity of the game, walked up
the
> sideline and told Hollins: "Don't throw him out of the game." That was
> Brown's way of saying it was important to allow the players to decide the
> outcome of an important game. Brown said Hollins replied they had to do
what
> was right; as it turned out, the designations remained and no one was
> ejected."