NBA Larry Brown will coach Pistons

This will be the long-time coach's seventh stop on the NBA trail.
DETROIT (AP) -- Joe Dumars and the Detroit Pistons got their man -- at Rick Carlisle's expense.
Larry Brown agreed to a five-year, $25 million deal with the Pistons over the weekend, a source within the NBA said Sunday, making Detroit his seventh NBA stop.
Pistons spokesman Matt Dobek said the team would introduce its new coach today at a 2 p.m. news conference at The Palace of Auburn Hills.
"We saw Larry Brown as the perfect guy to come in and establish a strong base for us," Dumars, the Pistons' president of basketball operations, told The New York Times on Sunday. "His track record is unquestioned."
"Larry Brown is obviously a great coach and his record speaks for itself," Carlisle said Sunday. "That's a great hire."
Carlisle was fired after leading Detroit to a 50-win season and a spot in the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 1991.
Released from clause
Brown, a Hall of Fame member, was released from a contractual clause that prohibited him from coaching another NBA team if he left Philadelphia prematurely. He had two years left on his contract that paid him $6 million a season.
Carlisle was fired with a year and $2 million left on his contract despite winning two straight division titles, 100 regular-season games, a Coach of the Year award and leading the Pistons to two postseason series victories for the first time since 1991.
The 62-year-old Brown began his head coaching career in 1972-73 with Carolina in the ABA and also has made stops in Denver, UCLA, New Jersey, the University of Kansas, San Antonio, the Los Angeles Clippers and Indiana.
The former North Carolina guard also bounced around as player, spending five seasons with five teams in the ABA -- including a championship with Oakland in 1969 -- after helping the United States win the gold medal in the 1964 Olympics.
His longest tenure
Brown's tenure with Philadelphia was his longest in his 31-year coaching career. He led the 76ers to the playoffs for five straight seasons, including the 2001 NBA Finals, and will coach the U.S. team this summer in an Olympic qualifying tournament.
He has an 879-685 record in the NBA, and is 1,285-853 overall, including the ABA and college. Brown won an NCAA championship with Kansas in 1988, and became the first coach to take six NBA teams to the playoffs when the Sixers made it in 1999.