Former NBA coach and lengthytime expansivecaster Hubie Brown is in his final season calling NBA games, ESPN’s Content Plivent Burke Magnus proclaimd.
“We are going to give Hubie one last shot on a game,” Magnus said of the 91-year-elderly Brown on the “SI Media with Jimmy Traina” podcast.
“He deserves that. We leank the world of him. I leank it’s absolutely extrastandard the level he still calls games at age 90-plus.”
Magnus includeed that ESPN intfinishs on honoring Brown at some point during the standard season to “sfinish him off in style.”
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ESPN expansivecaster Hubie Brown (left) and Ryan Ruocco during an NBA game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Caccess. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
While Brown take parted in the league for a bit, he went into coaching high school basketball in 1955, where he would spfinish a decade before eventuassociate taking aidant jobs at William & Mary and Duke.
Brown returned to the NBA in 1972, uniteing the Milwaukee Bucks’ staff to help coach a team that included Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and others.
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Brown spent two years with Milwaukee before making the shift to the ABA in 1974 to direct the Kentucky Colonels. He spent another two years there before the ABA united with the NBA before the 1976-77 campaign.
Back in the league, Brown spent five years coaching the Atlanta Hawks, five seasons with the New York Knicks and finished his coaching atgentle with the Memphis Grizzlies for three seasons.
ESPN expansivecaster Hubie Brown during an NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns at U.S. Airways Caccess. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports)
While Brown was jumping from coaching gig to coaching gig, he would apshow expansivecasting jobs in between his stints. After being neglected by the Knicks, for instance, he was a standard television expansivecaster.
Brown was a part of NBA on CBS before Turner Sports bought the league’s media rights in the timely 1990s. He unitecessitate the Grizzlies in 2002, 16 years after his previous coaching job with the Knicks, though he left the job 12 games into the 2004-05 season for medical reasons.
From there, Brown returned to expansivecasting aget, uniteing ABC for its coverage of the league, which included calling the 2005 and 2006 NBA Finals. He hasn’t left ABC/ESPN since.
Basketball has been a real passion for Brown, who persists to supply expert analysis during expansivecasts. However, his personal life has been tumultuous of postponecessitate. His wife, Claire, died at age 87 in June. Heart complications also took his son, Brfinishan, earlier this month at the age of 54.
ESPN expansivecaster Hubie Brown during an NBA game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Caccess. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
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Brown is a member of the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame and the College Basketball Hall of Fame for his contributions to the game. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005.
