By MARC BERMAN

Larry Brown is back as head coach and humbled, taking the blame for 23-59 at today’s press conference when he didn’t have to. “I was a bad coach,’’ Brown said of the 2005-2006 season.

Isiah Thomas’ 23-59 clip this season exonerated Brown in many eyes, though Michael Jordan didn’t need that to resurrect Brown’s career. I could remember a somber Isiah at the season-ending press conference the day after the 2005-2006 season, repeating over and over: “We’re a much better club than the record.’’

Apparently not. Good for Larry, but his grumpy agent Joe Glass has a lot of chutzpah. When I called Glass after Brown resigned from the Sixers last week to ask what he’d do if Donnie Walsh called him, the 80-year-old agent said, “We already got out of that gulag.’’

That gulag paid Brown $28 million for one season of 23-59 – the original Team Titanic. I’m sure Mr. Glass cleared close to $2 million from “the gulag.’’

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Still would like to hear whom you want to coach the team and we’re expanding Walsh’s list beyond Mark Jackson and Herb Williams to include guys he thinks may get fired, Mitchell, D’Antoni, Saunders, Johnson. The Knicks believe Karl is safe.