"One of the coaches, assistant coaches, spits out, 'Randy has nothing to do with this team, he doesn't need to be around the players.' Looked at every man that was in that film session and pretty much told them, 'Hey, don't listen to him. When he comes and talks to you, don't listen to him.' And for me, as a veteran guy just coming from Detroit, I was like, 'What is going on around here?' Because every conversation I had with Randy was always good, was always love. So it's kind of like a situation where, like, man, I don't know what's going on between management and the coaches. And now, as you see, it's coming out again."

Brown spent five years in Chicago as a player and joined the front office in 2009 as director of player development. A year later, he was named special assistant to the general manager, Forman. In 2013 he was promoted to assistant general manager and last season he joined new coach Fred Hoiberg's coaching staff. You don't have to do a whole lot of mental gymnastics to figure out why he might be loyal to the front office.