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Bush welcomes Pistons to the White House
The NBA champion Detroit Pistons visited the White House on Monday, and coach Larry Brown made it clear he has no plans to leave the team.
Asked if he would take a college coaching job, Brown said, "Oh, I don't look at that."
Speculation that the much-traveled, Brooklyn-born Brown was thinking about leaving the Pistons and taking over the New York Knicks began Friday, when he was quoted in a New York newspaper as saying the Knicks' job was one he had "dreamed about many times."
Bush didn't mention Brown's job status, but he congratulated the Pistons for winning a championship "the right way" — with teamwork.
Bush joked that he had something in common with the Pistons, who defeated the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers 4-1 in June's NBA Finals.
"Nobody expected you to win," Bush said. "I know how you feel."
Also attending the reception were the players' families, several members of the Michigan congressional delegation, owners Bill Davidson and Oscar Feldman, Joe Dumars, the president of basketball operations, and former star Bill Laimbeer.
Pistons leading scorer Richard Hamilton said visiting the White House was something he never could have imagined as a kid.
"I had dreams of playing in the NBA, but if someone told me you'd come to the White House, sit with the president, shake his hand and have him call you by name, I'd tell him, `You would be lying,'" Hamilton said.
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