Devin Brown

Devin Brown
Player information
Full name	Devin LaVell Brown
birthday	30th December 1978 (age 41)
place of birth	Salt Lake City , United States
size	196 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college	Texas
NBA draft	2002 , undrafted
Clubs as active
2002–2003 San Antonio Spurs 2002–2003 Fayetteville Patriots ( NBDL ) 2002–2003 Denver Nuggets 2003–2005 San Antonio Spurs 2005–2006 Utah Jazz 2006–2007 New Orleans Hornets 2007–2008 Cleveland Cavaliers 2008–2010 New Orleans Hornets 2010 Chicago Bulls 2011 Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2012 Erie BayHawks 00000 00000 00000

Devin LaVell Brown (born December 30, 1978 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) is a retired American basketball player who was active for most of his professional career in the NBA . As a player in the San Antonio Spurs , Brown won the 2005 NBA championship.

Player career

High school

Brown grew up in San Antonio , Texas , where he played organized basketball at South San Antonio West Campus High School and scored the most points as a high school player in the city's history.

college

Devin then played for four years at the University of Texas at San Antonio , where he was also the school's all-time leading scorer (1,922 points). On average, he made 18.3 points, 7.2 rebounds , 2.7 assists and 1.75 steals in 32.0 minutes per game.

As a freshman , he was named 1998–99 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year. He was also named three times to the All-Southland Conference First Team.

Brown is the only player at his university who has ever scored a triple-double . On February 17, 2001, he recorded 33 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists against the Louisiana-Monroe Indians .

His jersey number has been excluded from future allocation by the UTSA. This made him the first roadrunner to receive this honor.

NBA

Devin Brown was not selected by an NBA team in the 2002 NBA Draft . However, he was invited to the summer training camp by the San Antonio Spurs . He was released shortly before the season, but received another contract for two weeks in November.

After being on the Fayetteville Patriots in the Draft of the National Basketball Development League has been selected (NBDL) in second place, he played for 44 games for the Patriots and became the 2003 NBDL Most Valuable Player and the NBDL " Rookie of the Year selected". Devin held the league records of 38 points and 14 field baskets in one game (drawn up on December 5, 2002 against North Charleston).

In April 2003 he was given a ten day contract with the Denver Nuggets . For the 2003/04 season , Devin signed for the third time with the Spurs, for which he played two seasons. In 2004/05 he was even able to win the NBA championship with the team from San Antonio .

On September 9, 2005 he got a contract with the Utah Jazz . After only one season, however, on July 12, 2006, he was traded by Jazz together with Keith McLeod and Andre Owens to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Derek Fisher . Brown was then immediately fired by the Warriors.

On December 22, 2006, he received a contract with the New Orleans Hornets to fill the team's injury-related gaps. He got into the team so well that he was promoted to the starting lineup of the Hornets shortly afterwards. A position that he also filled after some of the previously injured stars returned. The 2006/07 season was the best of his NBA career to date. He averaged 11.6 points and 4.3 rebounds in 58 games, of which he started 49.

On September 29, 2007, Brown signed a one-year contract with the reigning Eastern Conference champion, the Cleveland Cavaliers , which grossed him over $ 1 million. There he got an average of 22.2 minutes of playing time per game as a backup for Sasha Pavlović .

For the 2008/09 season Brown moved back to the Hornets. There he played until January 2010. On January 26, 2010, the Hornets announced that Brown was traded to the Chicago Bulls . In return, center Aaron Gray moved from the Bulls to the Hornets. At the club, in which Michael Jordan achieved his greatest success with jersey number 23, which was withdrawn from the club after his retirement, Brown, whose favorite jersey number is 23, also based on Michael Jordan, played eleven games in the 2009/10 season .

In the 465 NBA season games (127 starts) of his career, Brown was able to record an average of 7.2 points and 2.8 rebounds. In October 2011 he had a short four-week comeback with the Polish ULEB Euroleague starter Asseco Prokom from Gdynia . After he was released there, he tried again in January 2012 as a veteran in the NBA D-League with the Erie BayHawks, where he was released after four games as a player on the injured list.

Web links

• Devin Brown - player profile on NBA.com
• Devin Brown - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• NBA Development League: Devin Brown Playerfile - Profile on the D-League pages