Larry Brown, the Basketball Hall of Fame coach, has never been accused of embracing job stability.
So maybe it's not surprising that his older brother, Herb, also a basketball lifer, has had a nomadic existence in the coaching business, too.
"They call Larry a vagabond. I'm a vagabond," Herb Brown said in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2001. The elder brother didn't need to rattle off Larry's long list of employers, including the ABA's Carolina Cougars, nine NBA head coaching gigs, and man-in-charge roles at UCLA, Kansas, where he guided the Danny Manning-led squad to the 1988 NCAA championship, and, since 2012, at SMU to hammer home that point.
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