Fred Brown (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Fred Brown
Player information
Nickname Downtown Freddie Brown
birthday August 7, 1948
place of birth Milwaukee , United States
size 1.90 m
Weight 90 kg
position Shooting Guard
Point Guard
High school Lincoln High School (Milwaukee)
college Southeastern CC (1967–1969)
Iowa (1969–1971)
NBA draft 1971, 6th pick , Seattle SuperSonics
league NBA
Jersey number 32
Clubs as active
1971-1984 Seattle SuperSonicsUnited StatesUnited States

Fred Brown (born August 7, 1948 in Milwaukee , United States , nickname Downtown Freddie Brown ) is a former professional American basketball player . From the University of Iowa the shooting and point guard moved in 1971 to the Seattle SuperSonics , for which he played 13 seasons in the NBA until the end of his playing career in 1984 . He was known for his precise throws. In 1976, Brown was named to the NBA All-Star Team . During his career, he scored 14,018 points (an average of 14.6 per game).

biography

Brown attended downtown Lincoln High School in Milwaukee until 1967 , where he was nicknamed "Downtown Freddie". He led Lincoln to second state championships and was nominated to the all-state team twice. In addition to basketball, he also played football and baseball . Because of his weaker throws from a distance, the nickname "Downtown Freddie" followed him throughout his career.

Brown graduated from the University of Iowa in 1971, where he scored an average of 27.6 points per game with the Iowa Hawkeyes college team. In the NBA Draft of the same year, the Seattle SuperSonics secured themselves as the sixth pick from Kentucky Colonels Brown. His NBA career began muted; In his rookie season he scored 4.2 points per game in 33 games and was only a supplementary player for the more experienced guards Lenny Wilkens and Dick Snyder . After Wilkens' move to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1972, Brown got more playing time and increased his points rate per game to 13.5 and 16.5 in the next two seasons.

In 1974 Snyder joined the Cavaliers and Brown's batting average rose to 21 points per game in the 1974/75 season . At the end of the season, he was still the fifth-best player in the steals per game category . In 1975/76 Brown was nominated for the NBA All-Star Team because of his point average and his free throw quota (each 5th place in the NBA) .

Brown was also one of Seattle's major players in the 1976/77 and 1977/78 seasons . However, when Lenny Wilkens took over the head coach post, he hired the free agents Gus Williams and Dennis Johnson , which meant that Brown got less playing time himself. Because of his quick switch from bank to attack, Wilkens referred to him as "Instant Offense". The Sonics reached the NBA finals in 1978, but could not prevail against the Washington Bullets .

The next season Brown was team captain of the SuperSonics and won the NBA title with them for the first and only time in the history of Seattle. Brown was also regularly at the top of the ranking of the best free throw shooters and he was the first to top the list with the best three-point shooters after the introduction of the three-point line in 1979/80 .

Brown ended his career in 1984 and was by then franchise-best in completed games (963), scored points (14,018), field (6,006) and free throw points (1,896). He also holds the Sonics record for most points in a season game (58), points in a play-off game (45, with Ray Allen ) and steals in a game (10, with Gus Williams ).

In honor of Brown, the jersey with the number 32 has not been awarded since 1986. After his sporting career, he first worked at Seafirst Bank in Seattle before he later went to Bank of America , where he retired as Senior Vice President after 15 years. He still lives in Seattle and advocates returning the SuperSonics franchise to Seattle after it moved to Oklahoma City in 2008 due to a new owner .

Web links

  • Fred Brown - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chris Broussard: BASKETBALL; Downtown Freddie Brown Is Still a Man to Bank On. In: The New York Times . The New York Times Company, November 30, 2003, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jim Moore: Moore: Down on Downtown Freddie Brown. In: Seattle Post-Intelligencer . Hearst Corporation , May 11, 2011, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  3. ^ Ron Maly: Register Sports Hall of Fame Database. Fred Brown. In: Des Moines Register . Gannett , accessed May 9, 2017 .
  4. ^ Greg Lamm: 'Downtown Freddie Brown' proposes new Sonics arena. In: Puget Sound Business Journal. Advance Publications , April 1, 2008, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Season Individual Leaders. In: hawkeyesports.com. University of Iowa , July 2, 2004, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  6. ^ David L. Hudson: The Handy American History Answer Book . Visible Ink Press, Canton, Michigan 2015, ISBN 978-1-57859-547-1 , pp. 371 (English).
  7. ↑ Bob Logan: Seattle a boomtown with Freddie Brown . In: Chicago Tribune . No. 131 . Tribune Company , May 28, 1978, ISSN  1085-6706 , Section 3, pp. 5 (English, chicagotribune.com [accessed May 9, 2017]).
  8. ^ A b Percy Allen: Ex-Sonic Fred Brown backs plan for new arena. In: The Seattle Times . The Seattle Times Company, April 2, 2008, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  9. ^ Geoff Baker: Ray Bartoszek partners with Bill Russell, Fred Brown to develop arena in Tukwila. In: The Seattle Times . The Seattle Times Company, April 27, 2015, accessed May 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin