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Mike Brown can't get too comfortable at a Manhattan Beach restaurant before he's approached by other customers.
They all want to know the same thing: Will there be basketball soon?
The new Lakers coach smiles easily, says he hopes so, and offers a few pleasantries.
It has been a strange few months for the guy picked to replace Phil Jackson. He rushed his family from Ohio to Anaheim Hills at the end of May and hurried to meet as many players as possible before contact with them was barred by the NBA's lockout July 1.
Brown has been in lockout limbo since then, unable to bounce ideas...
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