John Brown (basketball player)

John Brown
Player information
Full name	John Young Brown
birthday	December 14, 1951 (68 years and 262 days)
place of birth	Frankfurt am Main , Federal Republic of Germany
size	201 cm
Weight	99 kg
position	Small forward / power forward
High school	Dixon High School
college	University of Missouri
NBA draft	1973 , 10th Pick , Atlanta Hawks
league	NBA
Clubs as active
1973-1978	Atlanta Hawks
1978-1979	Chicago Bulls
000001979	Utah Jazz
000001980	Atlanta Hawks

John Young Brown (born December 14, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main , Federal Republic of Germany ) is a former American basketball player of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Career

college

Born in Frankfurt, Brown grew up in Dixon , Missouri . In his senior year of high school , he averaged 31.5 points per game and led his Bulldogs to the Missouri State Championship after a perfect season .

Despite many offers from across the Midwest , Brown decided to play for the University of Missouri . Only as a sophomore did he make it into the starting line-up of the Mizzou Tigers , because freshmen were not yet eligible to play in basketball and football at the time . As a junior , he had averages of 20 points and 11 rebounds per game and, as in the following year, led Missouri to the National Invitation Tournament , which at that time was not yet under the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and was considered the most important college basketball tournament. In both years he was elected to the All-Big Eight Conference First Team .

NBA

The Atlanta Hawks picked Brown in tenth place in the 1973 NBA Draft . He was elected to the NBA All-Rookie Team in his freshman year . Brown played in the NBA for a total of seven years. After a season with the Chicago Bulls , he completed four games for the Utah Jazz in the 1979/80 season to return to the Hawks in the second half of the season and reach the postseason . In 486 games he achieved averages of 7.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game. In the early 1980s he let his career end in Italy.

See also

• List of NBA players from German-speaking nations

Web links

• John Brown on: NBA website; New York, NY, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
• John Brown on: RealGM website; 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
• John Brown at: Basketball Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2018. Retrieved November 3, 2018 (in English).
• John Brown at: Sports Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2018. Retrieved November 3, 2018 (in English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Howard P. Chudacoff: Changing The Playbook. How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield, 2015: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-08132-3 (page 109, in English).
2. ↑ John W. Brown: John Brown. On: Missouri Legends website; St. Louis, MO, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2018 (in English, author not identical to subject matter of the lemma).