Cavaliers Keep Brown’s Assistants…For Now
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May 26, 2010While We’re Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email at tips@waitingfornextyear.com
We’ve all had our fair share of phone calls received from someone who had dialed the wrong number. But rare is it does one get a call from the wrong number, but they’re dialing the right number – one that just so happened to be changed. Even more rare is it when that phone number used to belong to the former head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
But there is – and his name is Rajesh Kumar, a 24-year-old graduate student at NYU. And he provided NBA FanHouse with one of the more entertaining interviews in quite some time.
Kumar, 24, from Delhi, India, who recently completed his Master’s degree in engineering at New York University, and has been in the U.S. for about two years. He lived for a month in Cleveland in August 2008, when he acquired the cell number with the 216 area code that used to belong to Brown, fired late Sunday night as Cavaliers coach.
After Kumar first got his number and started getting a few phone calls for Brown, he Googled his name and figured out who he is. Kumar would get calls from time to time for Brown and text messages after games, but it wasn’t too much of a distraction.
Until now.
Upon Brown’s firing, Kumar received upwards of 150 phone calls and 37 voicemails, all intended for the former head coach. I advise you start the morning by checking out this story. [Chris Tomasson/NBA FanHouse]
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Give them a few tracks with Mos Def and apparently the Black Keys are now NBA pundits [Cleveland Frowns]
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Remember those headbands we told you about? Yeah, they’re still on their respective statues [64 and Counting]
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The Browns will finish above .500 this year and five reasons why [No Logo Needed]
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And finally….THE FURY: “The holy grail for a small-market GM is to find a prospect with little to no service time but at the same time ready to produce in the majors. Even rarer still are pitchers with that profile, the scarcity of arms being what they are. Talbot’s 26 years old, and realistically could have pitching in the majors since 2007, but thanks to a combination of Tampa Bay pitching depth and injuries in 2009 came to the Indians with just 16 days of major-league service time. If he pans out, the Indians are going to get 6 full seasons of a mid-rotation starter, a priceless treasure for a low-payroll team.” [Let’s Go Tribe]
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(Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)
6 Comments
This is probably my favorite story about Mike Brown ever.
I like that the guy didn’t know, for the most part, who Mike Brown and Lebron James are.
THIS ARTICLE JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT LEBRON CAN’T BECOME A WOLDWIDE SUPERSTAR GLOBAL ICON IF HE PLAYS IN CLE. HE’S GONE.
Lol @ 3
I just found it depressing that the comments on the Brown/Kumar article all focus on Kumar’s immigration status, even going so far as to say that he should manage a 7-11. Way to stay classy people. Way to go.
F the Black Keys. Arghhh now I might boo them at Bonnaroo.