In the midst of deciding to walk away from the remaining two years and $12 million on his contract with the 76ers, Larry Brown managed to remind us all that he's "still pumped about coaching." That essentially means this:

He will be coaching next season.

Possibly in Houston. Likely in Los Angeles with the Clippers.

But one thing is certain: Coaching Allen Iverson will be someone else's problem.

Specifically, Mr. President-elect himself, Billy King.

The man Brown once recruited out of high school to come play for him at Kansas; who Brown virtually adopted as a surrogate son; who vacationed with Brown as a youth in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and worked under Brown in his first NBA gig, as a scout/assistant with the Indiana Pacers, was officially introduced yesterday as the Sixers' new president of basketball operations.

King, who spent years playing Brown's Dr. Phil in dealing with a myriad of Sixers social issues, finally gets to make his own decisions.