Denham Brown

Denham Brown
Tisettanta Cantù
Position	Shooting guard/Small forward
League	Serie A
Personal information
Born	January 6, 1983 (age 41); Toronto, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Listed height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight	220 lb (100 kg)
Career information
High school	West Hill Collegiate Institute
College	UConn
NBA draft	2006: 2nd round, 40th overall
	Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
Playing career	2006–present
	Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Denham W. Brown (born January 6 1983, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional basketball player, currently playing for Tisettanta Cantù in Italy's Serie A. He was selected in the second round (40th overall) of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics.

High school

Brown attended Bathurst Heights Secondary School in Toronto, and in his junior year, he averaged 29 ppg on the basketball team. However, he transferred to West Hill Collegiate Institute for his senior season after Bathurst closed. In 2002, his senior year, Brown was highly celebrated in the media when he scored 111 points in a basketball game against R. H. King Academy. After Brown scored 111 points in a game he was featured in SLAM magazine; not only because of the 111 points, but also because he had committed to an elite college program at the University of Connecticut (UConn).

College

Brown was a member of the UConn Huskies team that won the national championship in 2004, which was his sophomore year. In his senior year at UConn, he averaged 10.7 points, 1.3 assists, and 4.4 rebounds per game. His season-high came against Villanova where he scored 23 points. In the regional finals of the 2006 NCAA Tournament, Brown made a last second lay-up to force overtime against George Mason. During his tenure with the Huskies, Brown had a reputation for being a clutch performer.

NBA

Brown was selected with the 40th pick in the 2nd round in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics. After playing two preseason games with totals of eight points and five rebounds with the Sonics, he was waived by the team on October 26, 2006.^[1] However, the Tulsa 66ers subsequently used the eighth overall pick in the 2006 D-League Draft on Brown.

In his first preseason game with the Supersonics, Brown scored 8 points in a winning effort against the Portland Trail Blazers. After that game Brown saw little action for the Supersonics in the preseason appearing in just one more game. He was playing well in the D-League averaging close to 19 points per game (ppg) for the Tulsa 66ers.

Overseas

Brown left the Tulsa 66ers later in the 2006/07 season, and played in a pro league in Turkey for Galatasaray Café Crown. For the 2007/08 season, he has signed with the Serie A Italian team Tisettanta Cantù.^[2]

National team

Brown has extensive experience playing on the Canadian national team. He first made the team in 2003 when he was on the roster for the FIBA Americas Qualification Tournament. At the FIBA Tournament he played in ten games, starting none of them; but he averaged 12.4 points per game (ppg), 4.2 rebounds per game (rpg), an assist, and 20 minutes per game (mpg). Then in 2004 he was on the roster for the Four Nations Tournament. At that tournament he upped his scoring average to 13.8 ppg, while starting all six games and averaging 23.3 mpg, 5.3 rpg, and 1.3 apg. Again, in 2005 Brown was on the Senior Men's National Team. Unfortunately for Team Canada, Brown spent the summer of 2006 making it to the NBA, and did not participate on the 2006 Canadian Senior Men's National Team. Brown played for the team during the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship.

References

External links

Template:2004 Connecticut basketball

[1] ESPN - Sonics waive Palacio, second-round pick Brown - NBA

[2] Cantu signs Denham Brown

[1]

[2]