He is the only person out there who should immediately disrupt the Sacramento Kings’ coaching search.

He is available, accomplished and interested. He is also eccentric and impossible.

But he irrefutably is one of the most brilliant teachers and coaches in the history of the game.

Sorry, but promising youngsters Scott Brooks, Reggie Theus and Brian Shaw should step aside for the moment.

Larry Brown wants to talk.

Larry Brown wants to coach.

Larry Brown wants to hear from the Kings.

Think Geoff Petrie might pick up the phone and make the call this time? Who knows? Brown could be this offseason’s Don Nelson. Of course, he could also be an unmitigated disaster. He is eminently capable of drilling holes into sinking ships, forcing another one-year-and-out ouster, harming Petrie’s health with his incessant demands about retooling the roster with those who “play the right way.”

He can be a pain in every part of the anatomy.

But this is still Larry Brown, not Joe Schmoe or Stan Van Gundy. He’s more than a coach, he’s an experience. If he wants to talk … and he wants to talk.

“I want to get back,” a subdued Brown said from his home in Philadelphia. “I miss it terribly. I haven’t lost the passion to teach and coach. I don’t want to end my career at 23-59 (his 2005-06 record in New York). I feel I can do better. I don’t mind going somewhere that’s rebuilding, but wherever I go, I want everybody to feel that I’m the right person.”

Why Brown might be the right person for the Kings? Because his circumstances have changed drastically. He is 66 years old and mired in the longest slump of his career. He has been out of coaching for 14 months – 13 months and two weeks longer than at any previous stretch.

While it often was said that Brown arrives with too much baggage, after his disheveled departures from Detroit and New York, all that baggage somehow morphed into damaged goods.

The wooing has ceased. The Larry Brown who won an NCAA championship with Kansas (1988) and an NBA title with the Pistons (2003-04) is no longer Larry the beloved.

His friend Michael Jordan spurned him for the vacancy that went to Sam Vincent in Charlotte. Memphis Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley, suspecting Brown lacks the patience to rebuild without a Greg Oden or Kevin Durant, opted for Marc Iavaroni.

No one else is sending flowers, leaving one of the league’s most fascinating, if quirky, characters feeling lost and demoralized about being overlooked.

“There is something to be said for giving young guys a chance and not recycling coaches all the time,” Brown said, “but I was watching the playoffs and seeing (Gregg Popovich), Jerry Sloan and Don Nelson, what a great job the old guys were doing, and I see Rick (Adelman) getting back. I look at those guys and think that’s what I should be doing.”

Laughing, he added, “The only time I realize I’m 66 is when I look in the mirror.”

Brown, whose health problems aggravated his situation with management in Detroit, insists that his chronic bladder condition is manageable.

He says he has been invigorated by the sabbatical and is emotionally eager to resume coaching. He also mentions his appreciation for Sacramento’s fans – “It’s like a college environment,” Brown praised – and without prompting, cites his familiarity with several Kings.

Brown’s presence alone would return the buzz to Arco Arena and the conversation to the chat rooms.

There is room for compromise, for some creative thought: “You get an older coach like me,” Brown suggested, referring to the candidacy of Shaw, Theus and Brooks, “and then you have a young guy sitting next to him ready to take over in a few years. At this point in my career, that could be a good thing.”

Geoff? Joe and Gavin? Are you listening to this? Are you feeling the pulse – hey, an actual pulse! -of your community?

Make that call this time.