Kansas Loses Brown to Spurs

Weeks after accepting--then turning down--the head basketball coaching job at UCLA, Larry Brown has resigned as Kansas University basketball coach to become head coach of the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA, the university announced today.

Brown, 47, guided the Jayhawks to the NCAA college basketball championship last season. Media reports in San Antonio have said Brown was offered a $3.5-million, five-year contract. “The offer at San Antonio was simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which I couldn’t turn down,” Brown said in a statement. In April, the week after beating Oklahoma in the NCAA title game, Brown accepted the head coaching job at UCLA but changed his mind that same day in a bizarre succession of events.