Woody Paige: Nuggets, NBA and NCAA coaching legend would love to see a mile-high championship
https://gazette.com/sports/woody-paige/woody-paige-nuggets-nba-and-ncaa-coaching-legend-would-love-to-see-a-mile-high/article_1e8cf04c-ae70-11ed-b879-c7ad91af9037.html Woody Paige The Gazette - Feb 16, 2023 The Earth and the basketball are round, and nobody in both worlds would appreciate the Nuggets winning their first championship more than the team’s original anomalous avant-garde coach. “A title for Denver would be great. I’d love it,’’ the legendary Larry Brown said Thursday afternoon. At 82, the Hall of Famer is still around. He has coached 2,602 games in the pros (with a winning percentage of 57) and the colleges (72 percent victories), and, at 5-foot-9, the Little Big Man of Basketball has been in the sport over seven decades and in more than 20 locales. “But the only way players know me now is to google me,’’ he said by phone from Charlotte. Brown always was a basketball Don Quixote, searching for giants and dragons and tilting at windmills and power forwards. As a young man L...