Mamu Posted May 27, 2010 Posted May 27, 2010 In the dark ages of the mid-1990s only criminals, the extravagantly wealthy and Zach Morris had cellular telephones. Now, everybody has them, including your grandma who surprises you by knowing how to send text messages. With more than 260 million cell phones spread amongst 310 million people, not having a mobile device is about as rare as Amar'e Stoudemire(notes) making a 3-pointer. However, despite the proliferation of cell phones, and the fact that there are more than 7 billion phone number combinations, sometimes numbers get reused. I don't know why or how that could happen, but it does. And sometimes, if you're really lucky, you might end up with an old phone number of an NBA coach. FanHouse's Chris Tomasson has the scoop: Pity the man who has Mike Brown's old cell phone number. He is Rajesh Kumar, 24, from Delhi, India, who recently completed his Master's degree in engineering at New York University, and has been in the U.S. for about two years. He lived for a month in Cleveland in August 2008, when he acquired the cell number with the 216 area code that used to belong to Brown, fired late Sunday night as Cavaliers coach. [...] "I have gotten over 150 phone calls since (Monday),'' Kumar said Tuesday afternoon in an interview with FanHouse from New York. "I took a nap and I woke up and I had 37 voice mail messages. I thought Mike Brown must have lost a big match." :hysterical:
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