MIKE BROWN FIRED BY THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS AFTER ONLY 5 GAMES INTO THE 2012-2013 NBA SEASON

Mike Brown fired by the Los Angeles Lakers after 5 games.

Mike Brown has been fired by the Los Angeles Lakers, according to his agent Warren Legarie.
The Lakers are off to a 1-4 start and will play Golden State tonight at the Staples Center.
Los Angeles has been without Steve Nash after the guard sustained a leg injury, and a not fully game-fit Dwight Howard who is still recovering from back surgery.

2012-2013 Los Angeles Lakers starting line-up

The Lakers have the highest payroll in the league, coming in just over $100 million, and are also off to the worst start in the Western Conference.

Brown struggled to institute the Princeton offense, which was supposed to lessen Kobe Bryant's offensive workload.

It is not yet known, who will assume Brown's duties though assistants Bernie Bickerstaff and Check Person seem the likely interim choices.

The son of Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike Brown has received death threats on Twitter in the wake of the team's 1-4 start to the 2012 season, according to the Orange County Register.
Elijah Brown, a high school basketball player at Los Angeles powerhouse Mater Dei, has been the focus of misplaced vitriol from a bullying segment of the Lakers fan base.

"UR dad is the dumbest dude" and "does your grandma regret having your dad" are two of the messages we can print. There have been much worse.

"That's the tough part about this business," Mike Brown said to reporters on Thursday when he was told about the threats, apparently for the first time. "To go after somebody's family or something like that is, in my opinion, just ridiculous. It's stupid, crazy, whatever you want to call it."