The Sixers will go to war for Brown, and that includes Coleman. There's nothing else left to do but have faith in the man and respect for what he has accomplished in the last three seasons in Philadelphia. Brown has won more than 1,000 games in his career.

Still, he is 61 years old and has just come off a season in which he was diagnosed with both acid reflux and a hiatal hernia. How can anyone be certain that he will be around? If he leaves anytime soon, what then?