Former UNC star and Hall of Famer Larry Brown, who has had a long and very interesting career in coaching, had been a special adviser to Penny Hardaway at Memphis, but that ended Friday as Brown has stepped down due to health issues.
Jeff Goodman posted on Twitter that they aren’t considered serious, which is good news.
Brown has so many interesting points in basketball history. He mostly started the infamous Duke-UNC fight in 1961 when he went after Art Heyman. Later that year, they were teammates during the Maccabiah Games.
He coached in the ABA for several year and was then successful at UCLA in the post-Wooden era and later won a national championship with Kansas.