Game 7

There is no way Larry Brown is coming to Cleveland now.
How on Earth could he leave behind the drama and pressure of Game 7 of the NBA Finals to sit behind a desk for the Cavaliers?
Tuesday night, Brown led his Pistons to a 95-86 Game 6 victory over San Antonio, sending the NBA's championship series to a deciding game. It was Detroit's first win in San Antonio since 1997, and the first time the Finals has been sent to a seventh game since Houston defeated New York in 1994.
The only way Brown leaves the bench now is if doctors at the Mayo Clinic tell him "if you keep coaching, you'll die within a year." Even then, I would think Brown would much rather go out doing his true passion than being a figurehead.
The fact that the Knicks have been stalling more than a filibustering senator in their head coach search, interviewing candidates like Bill Laimbeer, further strengthens the case that Brown will be on someone's sideline next season.
The Cavs, by contrast, will apparently have a pair of neophytes leading the team into the suddenly-saved NBA summer. Mike Brown, by all accounts a solid basketball man, but a man who has no head coaching experience on any level, has already been hired as Cleveland's bench boss.
And ex-Cav Danny Ferry reportedly is in line to accept the team's general manager post once Game 7 is concluded. Ferry is currently a higher-up in the Spurs front office.
The last time the Cavs hired both a GM and coach with no prior experience at their positions, it was Jim Paxson and Randy Wittman in 1999.
Of course, those guys didn't have LeBron James to build around. Neither one had much of a clue, either.
Has anybody noticed owner Dan Gilbert is hiring in the exact opposite direction than he planned on at the outset of the off-season? It was supposed to be GM and/or president is hired, if a president is hired, that person hires the GM, and the GM hires the coach. That way, it was thought, there would be a defined line of authority to follow, less chance of toes being stepped on.
Instead, the coach was hired first, the GM appears to be next, and no one at the moment seems to know if the Cavs will even hire a president for sure.
That's not to say it won't work the way Gilbert has done it, it just seems like this off-season has caught Gilbert off-guard so far, like so many other things that have transpired since he took over the team.
He seems to be reacting on the fly. Usually, that's not a good idea. But the Carlos Boozer debacle of last summer was the unintended result of careful planning, so in the savage jungle of Cleveland sports, there is no right way to do things.
But if Gilbert is still holding out hope that Larry Brown is going to ride in from the west on a stallion to make sense of this whole NBA ownership thing, he's probably got another thing coming. Larry has a really important game to coach Thursday night.
"Coach" is the operative word. Not "preside over."