DETROIT - After winning one NBA title with Detroit and falling a victory short of another, Larry Brown appears headed toward a breakup with the Pistons.

Team president of basketball operations Joe Dumars and Brown's agent, Joe Glass, had one of their many conversations Monday, attempting to reach a resolution after weeks of negotiations about the coach's future.

"We have not agreed to anything with Larry and there is no buyout yet," Dumars told The Associated Press on Monday night. "Both sides are still talking."

Two years ago, Detroit signed Brown to a five-year contract worth about $25 million, plus incentive bonuses.

Messages seeking comment were left Monday afternoon and night with Brown and his agent.

Brown and Glass met with Dumars and Pistons owner Bill Davidson last week, but both sides declined to say whether Brown would return for a third season.

Other than traveling to suburban Detroit for the meeting, Brown has been resting, on doctor's orders, at his vacation home in New York since he checked out of a hospital nearly three weeks ago.

The 64-year-old Brown was hospitalized for treatment of a medical problem that developed from complications following hip surgery in November and persisted after a second procedure in March. He checked into the Mayo Clinic the morning after last month's NBA draft, less than a week after Detroit lost Game 7 of the finals at San Antonio.

Brown has said if doctors deemed him healthy enough, he wanted to return next season to coach the Pistons, and insisted he wouldn't lead another NBA team from the sideline. Still, there have been reports that the New York Knicks would not hire a new coach until they knew for sure that Brown was not available.

The Pistons have said they would welcome Brown back, if he was willing to return.

The Cleveland Cavaliers talked with Brown about becoming their president of basketball operations after Detroit gave them permission during the spring. Cleveland hired Danny Ferry as general manager last month, and he has been given assurances that Brown will not be his boss.

The Pistons' 2004 title made Brown the first coach to win NBA and NCAA championships. He won the college title with Kansas in 1988.