Larry Brown, the only basketball coach to have won both an NBA and NCAA title, might soon be trying to win a Long Island high school championship, as well.
Brown, the well-traveled coach who played at UNC in the early 1960s, and Long Beach (N.Y.) High School in the late 1950s, has expressed interest in the boys varsity coaching vacancy at East Hampton High School, athletic director Joe Vasile-Cozzo said.
“I’m trying to figure things out, to be honest with you,” Brown told Newsday by telephone on Tuesday. “I’m interested in helping kids, but I don’t want to do anything unless I’m 100 percent in.