Hubie Brown

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Brown coached the Atlanta Hawks in 1981

Hubert Jude "Hubie" Brown (born September 25, 1933 in Elizabeth , New Jersey ) is a former American basketball coach . Today he mainly works as an analyst for ESPN in the NBA .

Brown was inducted into the 2005 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for his coaching achievements .

career

Between 1976 and 2004 (with interruption) he coached the teams of the Atlanta Hawks , New York Knicks and Memphis Grizzlies in the US professional league NBA .

He was previously the head coach of the Kentucky Colonels in the ABA , which he led in 1975 to their first and only championship. After surprisingly leading the Grizzlies to a 50-32 season in 2004, he was named Coach of the Year . The then 70-year-old is the oldest winner of this award.

At the beginning of the 2004/05 season Brown resigned for health reasons as coach of the Grizzlies and ended his career. His overall record as NBA head coach is 424 wins to 495 losses.

See also

Web links

Commons : Hubie Brown  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: Hubie Brown. Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ Hubie Brown - Coaching Record. In: basketball-reference.com. Retrieved May 14, 2020 (English).