Brown leaves Sixers post

Executive VP to pursue coaching job

Larry Brown wants one more stop on his nomadic coaching career.

Brown resigned as Philadelphia’s executive vice president Thursday with the intent to pursue a coaching job at the NBA or college level.

Brown has been a winner at almost every team from the ABA to the NBA to the college ranks, yet hasn’t coached since a bitter split with the Knicks and then-team president Isiah Thomas after one dismal season in New York in 2005-06.

“He has the taste of coaching back in his mouth,” said Brown’s agent, Joe Glass. “It would be refreshing to have a situation going that he could enjoy, rather than the last one, to say the least.”

Glass said Brown, who won an NBA title with Detroit and a college title with Kansas University, would not rule out returning to either level.

Brown rejoined the Sixers last season as consultant and was hired in January 2007 as a VP more than three years after he quit his coaching job to take the same position in Detroit. The 67-year-old Brown resigned as coach of the 76ers in 2003 after six often-turbulent seasons in which he helped rebuild a struggling franchise.

The Hall of Fame coach had a contentious relationship with Allen Iverson, but the two worked together despite several disputes, and reached the NBA finals in 2001. They lost in five games to the Lakers.