The last and only time head coach Mike Brown won the conference finals, he was admittedly just a spectator to the magnificence of LeBron James.
Add The New York Post on Google The last and only time head coach Mike Brown won the conference finals, he was admittedly just a spectator to the magnificence of LeBron James.
Back when scoring was at a premium in 2007, LeBron reeled off 25 consecutive points in a historic Game 5 win over the Pistons. It was jaw-dropping and Brown’s strategy was just to stay out of the way.
“In the midst of it, I’ll never forget,” Brown, who was coaching the Cavaliers at the time, recalled Friday. “Detroit calls a timeout, and we went to huddle as a staff, and I had great coaches, and one of them was like, ‘We gotta tell him this! We gotta tell him that!
’ “And I was like, ‘There’s no way in hell I’m going in that huddle to tell him anything right now the way he’s cooking, I’m just gonna let him cook. I’m not saying anything to him. ’ And he went out there and he just — he was amazing. That was the best seat in the house to watch.
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