Hello and welcome to the Evening News.
As the playoffs are now officially under way, we’ll keep you updated every evening. What’s happening today?
Here’s the latest news from around the league:
Cavaliers and Brown agree to reunion.
As we discussed yesterday, Dan Gilbert and Mike Brown reportedly met for dinner on Sunday evening to discuss a possible reunion in Cleveland. Chris Broussard said the meeting went well.
Today, Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Cavaliers and Mike Brown are close to finalizing a five-year deal worth an excess of $20 million. 
Brown, who coached the Cavaliers to a 272-138 record in his first stint in Cleveland, will surely bring a defensive emphasis to a team that ranked among the worst in the league in points allowed last season.
Prior to Brown’s firing in 2010, current GM Chris Grant — who was then an assistant to Danny Ferry — advocated for Dan Gilbert to retain the 2009 Coach of the Year.
Jason Lloyd of the Akron Beacon Journal was the first one to report the deal was imminent.
The deal could officially be reported as early as Wednesday.
Raptors likely to keep Colangelo and Casey.
Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun reports that the Toronto Raptors are ” . . .poised to bring back Bryan Colangelo and Dwane Casey for another season.”
Colangelo’s current contract expires at the end of the season but sources say it is likely the NBA’s 2007 Executive of the Year will be offered an extension. 
Colangelo’s tenure in Toronto has been extremely polarizing; despite a playoff run under him in 2007, the Raptors have reached the playoffs since 2008. He failed to build a contender around Chris Bosh and has been unable to find a star in the draft to replace Bosh.
Now, the Raptors have a roster full of unwanted contracts (Andrea Bargnani, Landry Fields) and already traded their upcoming lottery pick away last summer.
Still, Toronto does have a little room for optimism. Rudy Gay and Kyle Lowry worked well together in limited action this season and figure to come back next year even better. Moreover, the emergences of Jonas Valanciunas and Demar Derozan at the end of the season show that there is still room for this team to grow.
Still, with Gay and Bargnani’s massive contracts on the books past next season, the Raptors will have to find creative ways to acquire players through free agency or trade.
McMillan is the front-runner in Detroit.
According to Mitch Lawrence of the New York Daily News, Nate McMillan has emerged as the front-runner to take the Detroit Pistons’ coaching position. McMillan has a career 478-452 record in twelve seasons as a head coach. He last coached an underperforming Trail Blazers team in 2011-2012. 
There were rumors last November that McMillan would serve as Mike D’Antoni’s defensive coordinator in Los Angeles. Those rumors never materialized to anything serious. McMillan was a two-time second team All-NBA defender in the 1990s and was recognized to be Mike Krzyzewski’s defensive strategist on the USA’s 2008 and 2012 gold medal teams.
Detroit fired Lawrence Frank last week after two forgettable seasons.
If McMillan were to replace Frank, he would get a second “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity to coach and develop a prodigal teenage big man in Andre Drummond. In Portland, of course, McMillan’s opportunity to work with Greg Oden was cut short by Oden’s debilitating knee injuries.
