Brighton Bears coach Nick Nurse last night re-signed guard Mike Brown for the coming season, then set sights on securing two more of his former stars.

Bears have made an offer to last season's player of the year Sterling Davis and will continue talks later this week.

Nurse is also keen to sign 6ft 7ins centre Roy Hairston, who helped him win the Championship with Manchester three seasons ago, averaging 20.4 points per game. Hairston, from New Jersey, was with Ragusa in the Italian Second Division last season.

Brown had been expected to move into Europe and Nurse said: "I'm extremely happy because this was not in my plans.

"Mike played really well for us last season in a lot of intangible areas and I would look for him to have an even better season this time round."