Sixers' GM Billy King accompanied Larry Brown to his car on Thursday, as Brown's wife Shelly is worried about him.

"Shelly won't let me go alone. She's afraid I might jump off a cliff. She told Billy to take care of me."

"I don't care how rich you are, no one's happy losing millions," George Karl said. "But I think more management people have got to understand that it's your job to manage and motivate and energize your coach. We make mistakes. We've got paranoia. We get depressed.

"In those moments, I think good organizations try to help their coach through it instead of becoming an adversary position or confrontational position ...

"Now, I don't know Isiah from Adam. And so, I don't know what's going on there other than I think coaches need an ally in this league."