Elton Brown (basketball player)

Elton Brown
Player information
birthday	September 9, 1983
place of birth	Newport News (VA), USA
size	206 cm
position	center
college	Virginia
Jersey number	24
Clubs as active
2005–2006 Makedonikos Kozani 2006 Florida Flame 2006 Llanera Menorca 2006–2008 Colorado 14ers → 2007 Capitanes de Arecibo ( BSN ) 2008 Hapoel Holon 2008 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2009–2010 Brose Baskets 2010–2011 Elitzur Netanja 2011–2012 Trabzonspor Basketball 2012–2013 KK Red Star Belgrade 2013–2014 Paris-Levallois Basket 2015 BCM Gravelines 2015 Indios de Mayaguez 2015–2016 STB Le Havre 2016–2017 SLUC Nancy Basket 00000 00000 000 00000 00000 00000 00000

Elton Brown (born September 9, 1983 in Newport News , Virginia ) is a former American basketball player who became German champion in 2010 with the Brose Baskets from Bamberg .

Career

The 2.06 m tall and 113 kg heavy Brown, who was trained between 2001 and 2005 with the Virginia Cavaliers at the University of Virginia, began his professional career in the 2005/2006 season with the Greek first division club Makedonikos Kozani. There, the Brown used on the position of the center quickly found himself and achieved both 13.3 points and 10.5 rebounds per game, which also meant the best rebound in the league. After a short stay in Spain, where he only played one game for Llanera Menorca, he returned to the USA and was active for one season in the NBA D-League for the Colorado 14ers, attracting the attention of NBA clubs do. By performing well, he was appointed to the All-Star Game of the D-League 2007, in which he scored 20 points and 10 rebounds. Brown was then active during the 2007 summer break in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional and in the NBA Summer League for the Denver Nuggets and signed a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers in September 2007 , which was however dissolved before the start of the season in November. Brown returned to Europe for the 2007/2008 season and worked in Israel for Hapoel Holon, where he won his first European title in the form of the Israeli championship. Through good performances at Holon, other top teams became aware of him and so Brown signed a contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv, from which he was released three weeks later and was only used once. At the beginning of February 2009 Brown then moved to the German first division club Brose Baskets Bamberg , where he performed well and extended his contract for a year after the 2008/09 season.

For the 2010/2011 season he returned to Israel and signed a contract with Elitzur Netanja. After a season in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi 2011/12 for the Trabzonspor basketball team , which, however, had to relegate at the end of the season, he played in the 2012/13 season for KK Red Star from Belgrade , who won the national cup competition against serial champions KK Partizan Belgrade succeeded. In the final games of the ABA League and the national championship, however, Partizan had to give up again. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Brown moved to France in the LNB Pro A to Paris-Levallois Basket. Until the end of his time as a professional basketball player, he stayed in France except for a short detour to Puerto Rico.

successes

• 2007: Participation in the D-League All Star Game
• 2008: Winning the Israeli championship with Hapoel Holon
• 2010: German cup winner with the Brose Baskets Bamberg
• 2010: Winning the German championship with the Brose Baskets Bamberg
• 2013: Serbian Cup winner with KK Red Star

Web links

• BROWN, ELTON - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• Elton Brown - Paris-Levallois - Joueurs - Pro A - player profile on the website of the French LNB ( French )
• easyCredit BBL - Elton Brown - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Elton Brown (basketball player) - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Elton Brown Stats - Virginia Cavaliers - College season stats on statsheet.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Baloncesto Superior Nacional de Puerto Rico: Brown, Elton. Baloncesto Superior Nacional , accessed October 29, 2013 (Spanish, player statistics). 
2. ↑ Los Angeles Lakers sign Elton Brown. National Basketball Association , September 17, 2007, accessed June 14, 2010 (LA Lakers media info). 
3. ↑ Klaus Groh: "The center we were looking for". InFranken.de , February 6, 2009, accessed October 29, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Elton Brown remains in Bamberg. Spox , August 6, 2009, accessed October 29, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Elton Brown - Turkish Basketball League Player: 2011-2012 Regular Season. TBLStat.net, accessed October 29, 2013 (English, player statistics). 
6. ↑ PARIS LEVALLOIS inks Elton Brown. (No longer available online.) ULEB , October 21, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 29, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ https://www.estrepublicain.fr/sport-lorrain/2017/01/17/elton-brown-nouveau-pivot-du-sluc-l-etat-d-esprit-c-est-la-cle
8. ↑ https://www.lnb.fr/fr/proa/joueurs/elton-brown-A34011.html