Former NBA coach and longtime broadcaster Hubie Brown is in his last season calling NBA video games, ESPN’s Content material President Burke Magnus introduced.
“We’re going to give Hubie one final shot on a sport,” Magnus mentioned of the 91-year-old Brown on the “SI Media with Jimmy Traina” podcast.
“He deserves that. We predict the world of him. I feel it’s completely outstanding the extent he nonetheless calls video games at age 90-plus.”
Magnus added that ESPN intends on honoring Brown sooner or later through the common season to “ship him off in fashion.”
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ESPN broadcaster Hubie Brown (left) and Ryan Ruocco throughout an NBA sport between the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Heart. (Kirby Lee/USA In the present day Sports activities)
Whereas Brown performed within the league for a bit, he went into teaching highschool basketball in 1955, the place he would spend a decade earlier than ultimately taking assistant jobs at William & Mary and Duke.
Brown returned to the NBA in 1972, becoming a member of the Milwaukee Bucks’ employees to assist coach a staff that included Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and others.
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Brown spent two years with Milwaukee earlier than making the transfer to the ABA in 1974 to guide the Kentucky Colonels. He spent one other two years there earlier than the ABA merged with the NBA earlier than the 1976-77 marketing campaign.
Again within the league, Brown spent 5 years teaching the Atlanta Hawks, 5 seasons with the New York Knicks and ended his teaching profession with the Memphis Grizzlies for 3 seasons.
ESPN broadcaster Hubie Brown throughout an NBA sport between the Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns at U.S. Airways Heart. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA In the present day Sports activities)
Whereas Brown was leaping from teaching gig to teaching gig, he would take broadcasting jobs in between his stints. After being dismissed by the Knicks, as an example, he was a daily tv broadcaster.
Brown was part of NBA on CBS earlier than Turner Sports activities purchased the league’s media rights within the early Nineties. He joined the Grizzlies in 2002, 16 years after his earlier teaching job with the Knicks, although he left the job 12 video games into the 2004-05 season for medical causes.
From there, Brown returned to broadcasting once more, becoming a member of ABC for its protection of the league, which included calling the 2005 and 2006 NBA Finals. He hasn’t left ABC/ESPN since.
Basketball has been a real ardour for Brown, who continues to supply professional evaluation throughout broadcasts. Nevertheless, his private life has been tumultuous of late. His spouse, Claire, died at age 87 in June. Coronary heart issues additionally took his son, Brendan, earlier this month on the age of 54.
ESPN broadcaster Hubie Brown throughout an NBA sport between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Heart. (Kirby Lee/USA In the present day Sports activities)
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Brown is a member of the Nationwide Sports activities Media Affiliation Corridor of Fame and the School Basketball Corridor of Fame for his contributions to the sport. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2005.
