BRETT BROWN WAS 25 and lost. It's not an unfamiliar place for many.
He was single and stir-crazy, unfulfilled in a sales job, a few years out of Boston University -- where he played for Rick Pitino -- and with an itch to see more. He had made some sound investments and worked all hours for too long. He was the son of two schoolteachers and he had already made what he considered "a significant amount of money."
Something was missing.
"A purpose-driven life? I didn't feel that at all," the Philadelphia 76ers head coach said at his desk before the playoffs.