{"id":200,"date":"2012-11-09T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=200"},"modified":"2012-11-09T14:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T19:23:36","slug":"lakers-fire-mike-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2012\/11\/09\/lakers-fire-mike-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers fire Mike Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Mike+Brown+Dallas+Mavericks+v+Los+Angeles+3k6wTVBWKK_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five games into the NBA season was enough. The Los Angeles Lakers have fired head coach Mike Brown. The team was 1-4 to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>Brown was barely a month into his second season with the team, he previously had coached Cleveland .<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakersnow\/la-sp-ln-lakers-coach-mike-brown-fired-replaced-20121109,0,4845829.story\">LA Times<\/a> assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff will take over the coaching duties for tonight&#8217;s game against Golden State. The Lakers are expected to conduct a nationwide wide search. Early favorites for the job include Mike D&#8217;Antoni, Jerry Sloan, Nate McMillan and of course there is always the chance that Phil Jackson returns.<\/p>\n<p>It was believed to be the earliest firing of a coach in the team&#8217;s history. Del Harris was relieved of his duties 12 games into the 1999 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers were 41-25 in Brown&#8217;s first season, losing to Oklahoma City in the second round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five games into the NBA season was enough. The Los Angeles Lakers have fired head coach Mike Brown. The team was 1-4 to start the season. Brown was barely a month into his second season with the team, he previously had coached Cleveland . According to the LA Times assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","7":"tag-mike-brown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}