Oh yeah, and Iggy.

Larry has repeatedly laughed off the talk of going to Philly and bluntly stated he feels grateful to Jordan for hiring him at a time when no one else would.

But just for the hell of it (and accepting Brown’s nomadic history) let’s look at what happens if Brown opts out and heads to Philly.
First, let’s look at the impact on the 76ers. The most important thing is that I don’t give a fresh skunk turd what happens to Philly. The Bobcats are my team and that’s all I have to say on the matter.

Now that THAT’S been given the proper amount of research and devotion, on to the effect on the Bobcats.

Let’s face it. Brown builds teams uniquely suited to his philosophy of basketball. New coach, new philosophy. If we bring in someone that favors a run and gun game plan or anything else that doesn’t involve the methodical halfcourt style it’s going to instantly be rebuilding time. Any coach that can come in and rebuild without any money under the cap, no draft options, and a suddenly large and demanding fanbase watching his every move is a better man than I. The team will almost certainly take a large step backwards instead of making the small gains most of us expect it to under Brown.

There would be a couple of positives to be had in the mess. DJ will probably evolve rapidly once he’s freed of the constant pressure of the Brown system and Boris and Graham in particular will also benefit from a freer offense, but that’s about it. One thing’s for sure, we’ll find out once and for all if our investment in Henderson and Derr-Devil was worth it.

Jackson has played under several coaching mindsets so he’ll likely be the quickest to adapt and shine. (Remember when he came on board and we all figured he’d be long gone at the end of the season?) Wallace is well… indestructable.

The biggest problem any coach for this team is going to have – and that includes Brown as well – is finding some way to deal with that damned revolving door at the 5. The situation isn’t going to get any better either. We really have no way to improve the team further without unloading some of our bad contracts and almost all of them are at the center position. I think it’s highly unlikely that the combination that will play the position tonight will be the one’s playing come October and predicting which way the chips will fall is almost impossible right now becuase the variables are all over the map.

One fearful thing to think about…

Michael Jordan’s number one belief has always been that he can do anything he wants and do it better than anyone else on earth. Flailing in futility at curve balls and sinkers didn’t cure him of it so I don’t think anything can. Am I the only one worried that if Larry leaves town our man Michael could very well decide that he’s just the man to coach his team to a championship bid? Sure it would mean he’d be at every single game, but do we really want Jordan telling old war stories to Henderson when we need someone with their head in the actual courtside action?

Seemed a little unfair to be honest. He was there only one season correct?