Victory Isn’t All Fun for Clippers’ Brown : Pro basketball: He says he suffers when he defeats Moe, his former college roommate, now coach of the 76ers. L.A. wins, 121-100.

Larry and Moe, together again.

Coaching different teams, but on the same sideline again Friday night at the Sports Arena, best friends faced off for the first time since Doug Moe returned to the NBA to guide the Philadelphia 76ers.

“I’ve coached against him so many times, but I don’t enjoy it,” Larry Brown of the Clippers said before the 121-100 victory over Moe’s 76ers. “I’m glad he’s back in the league because it’s so good for the league and he is doing what he wants to do. But I would not classify this as a game I look forward to. I know he’s down there.

“A game like this, I do look forward to because it’s an exhibition. But the regular season, that is a no-win situation. We win and I’m happy, but he gets a loss. They win and I’m miserable.”

This is a relationship that goes back to the University of North Carolina, when Brown and Moe were players and roommates. When Brown became coach of the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Assn., he brought on Moe as an assistant. The ongoing link is that both primarily run the same pass-oriented offense.

Friday was their first on-court meeting in two seasons, and one Moe probably thought would never happen. When his last coaching stint, in Denver, ended, he was diagnosed as having a bad pancreas. Doctors said too much stress, the kind coaching brings, could result in very serious complications.

So Moe stayed out of the game. But last spring, when it was discovered the problem was caused by a bad gall bladder, surgery corrected the problem and enabled him to coach again.

“If you happen to love retirement the way I do,” he said, “you have to be able to afford it.”

Which brought him to Philadelphia, and in turn, the dreaded reunion at the Sports Arena.

“I see it the same way (as Brown),” Moe said. “It’s always been like that. One of has to lose. At least in the preseason, it’s no big deal.”

The Clippers won for the third time in four exhibitions, but their real positives were the play of Stanley Roberts and Loy Vaught, both of whom had their best games to date. Roberts had 17 points, 12 rebounds and three blocked shots in 22 minutes and Vaught had nine points, nine rebounds and three blocks to go with 20 points by Danny Manning.

The 76ers--playing without the injured Ron Anderson, Johnny Dawkins and Andrew Lang--dropped to 0-4. They got 18 points from Tim Perry and 17 points and eight rebounds from Armon Gilliam.