CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte Bobcats center Theo Ratliff has played for Larry Brown on two teams spanning three decades in his 14-year NBA career.

So maybe he knows what the nomadic Hall of Fame coach’s next move is.

“With coach Brown you know how things go for him,” a smiling Ratliff said Tuesday. “I’m sure he’s going to make the best decision for him and his family and what they have to do.”

Not long after Ratliff and the rest of the Bobcats took their exit physicals and scattered for the summer, Brown and owner Michael Jordan met at Time Warner Cable Arena.

They didn’t address reporters, a day after the Bobcats’ first playoff appearance ended with the thud of a four-game sweep amid questions if Brown will return for a third season.

“Not my decision,” forward Gerald Wallace said when asked about Brown.

Brown, in his 13th pro or college coaching job, insisted after Orlando’s 99-90 victory Monday that clinched a 4-0 first-round victory that he won’t coach for anyone other than Jordan.

But the 69-year-old Brown also said he’ll talk with his wife and children, who live in Philadelphia, before announcing if he’ll return for the final two years of his contract.

What makes the plot more intriguing is the 76ers have a vacant coaching job, and perhaps a front-office opening soon, too.

Brown’s longest stint as a coach was a six-year stay in Philly when Ratliff played there.

“That’s hypothetical,” Brown said when asked if he’d leave Charlotte for a job as a general manager or team president. “I’m really, personally, not ready to step down in terms of my desire to keep coaching.”

While Brown’s future will be a hot topic, the Bobcats have several other personnel issues in their first offseason with Jordan as majority owner.

It’s the beginning of a new era in several ways, since the 6-year-old franchise’s previous goal of just making the playoffs no longer applies after Charlotte’s first, and brief, taste of the postseason produced uneven play and exposed offensive deficiencies.

“It was two totally different teams,” Wallace said of facing the playoff-experienced Magic.

“There was one team that was finally making the playoffs and I think was content with just making the playoffs. Then there was one team that’s been to the playoffs year after year.

Their goal was to win a championship.

• Mike Cranston