“I think the fact that he has survived The Process,” Bob Brown was saying the other day, the pride translating clearly off the cellular towers that carried his voice from the southern Maine town where he did most of his own coaching and still lives. “And in pro sports — it’s fantastic. I don’t know anybody from any sport who has survived the process.
“Four years of losing. … All the credit to him.”
There is The Process. And there is The Source. Bob Brown can credit his schoolteacher wife Bonny with the sensibilities that have allowed their only son to navigate the questioning and criticism that accompanied the Sixers’ tedious and tumultuous trip toward the NBA’s elite level, the latest his decision not to call a timeout during Boston’s excruciating second quarter run Thursday night.