CLEVELAND — Normally, a hiring of a coach ahead of a general manager is an NBA recipe for restiveness, if not all-out revolution.
Burrowing below the surface of Mike Brown's selection as supervisor of the Cavaliers' sidelines ahead of Danny Ferry taking charge of the front office, is to appreciate the irrelevance of that appointment schedule.
"People don't understand we have history," Brown stressed last Tuesday as we sat in his Quicken Loans Arena office following a team shootaround.