Larry Brown (basketball coach)

Larry Brown
Player information
Full name	Lawrence Harvey Brown
birthday	14th September 1940 (age 79)
place of birth	Brooklyn , New York , United States
size	175 cm
position	Point guard
college	North Carolina
NBA draft	1963, 55th Pick , Baltimore Bullets
Clubs as active
1963–1965 Akron Wingfoots (NABL) 1968 New Orleans Buccaneers ( ABA ) 1969 Oakland Oaks (ABA) 1970 Washington Caps (ABA) 1971 Virginia Squires (ABA) 1971–1972 Denver Rockets (ABA) 000 0 000 0 000 0 000 0
National team
000 0 1964	United States	9 games
Clubs as coaches
000 01972 Davidson College 1972–1974 Carolina Cougars (ABA) 1974–1979 Denver Nuggets 1979–1981 UCLA 1981–1983 New Jersey Nets 1983–1988 University of Kansas 1988–1992 San Antonio Spurs 1992–1993 Los Angeles Clippers 1993–1997 Indiana Pacers 1997 –2003 Philadelphia 76ers 2003–2005 Detroit Pistons 2005–2006 New York Knicks 2008–2010 Charlotte Bobcats 2012–2016 Southern Methodist University 2018 Fiat Torino 000 0

Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown (born September 14, 1940 in Brooklyn , New York ) is a retired American basketball coach and player.

As a player, Brown won with the US basketball team in the XVIII. 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo won the gold medal. Brown had a successful playing career. First he played in the National Alliance of Basketball Leagues (NABL), the successor to the factory team league National Industrial Basketball League (NIBL) and thus a distant descendant of the National Basketball League (NBL), with the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots .

Career as a coach

Between 1965 and 1967 he was a brief assistant coach at his former University of North Carolina. In 1967 he continued his playing career and moved to the newly founded professional league American Basketball Association (ABA), which was then a competitive league of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was three times ABA All-Star (1968-70) and won the ABA championship with the Virginia Squires in 1968.

Since 1976 he trained in the NBA and before that in the ABA various teams. Brown also coached various university teams. Between 1976 and 1979 he coached the Denver Nuggets in the NBA, which he had previously coached in the ABA. For two seasons from 1981 to 1983 he was the coach of the New Jersey Nets , and for four seasons (1988 to 1992) of the San Antonio Spurs . In the meantime, he coached the team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Kansas . In 1988 he surprisingly led the latter to the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship . After two brief engagements with the Los Angeles Clippers and the Indiana Pacers , Brown joined the Philadelphia 76ers in 1997 . With these he reached the 2001 NBA finals series, but lost to the Los Angeles Lakers . On September 27, 2002, Brown was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame .

In 2003, Brown resigned as coach of the Sixers and is hired by the Detroit Pistons . This he led to the 2004 championship against the Los Angeles Lakers . Brown is the first and so far only coach who has won titles in the NCAA and NBA. In July 2005, he was released from the Pistons. The New York Knicks made Brown a $ 50 million contract offer for five years, which he accepted on July 27, 2005. Brown is the highest-paid coach in US professional sport of all time. After only one season, Brown and the Knicks separated again.

On April 29, 2008 it was announced that he would accept the coaching position with the Charlotte Bobcats . He led the Bobcats to their first play-off participation in the club's history in the 2009/2010 season . After Brown had little success with the Bobcats in the 2010/2011 season with 9 wins and 19 defeats, he had to give up his job as head coach.

In 2012, Brown took over the coaching position with the SMU Mustangs , the team at Southern Methodist University .

For the 2018/2019 season he signed a contract with Fiat Torino in Italy with an option for a further year, but gave up the position after only four wins in December 2018.

Coaching style

Brown is considered a very defensive-oriented coach who attaches great importance to safe and precisely structured play without much freedom for the players. He places very high demands on his players and does not hesitate to criticize them in the media.

See also

• List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Web links

• Larry Brown in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on hoopshall.com
• Profile on nba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: All-Time USA Basketball Men's Roster // B. ( Memento January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Archived from USA Basketball website; Colorado Springs, CO, undated before 2010. Retrieved February 26, 2019 (in English).
2. ^ Bobcats head coach Larry Brown steps down . nba.com. Retrieved December 23, 2010.
3. ^ Larry Brown named coach at Big East-bound SMU
4. ^ A. Petrucci: Larry Brown officially signs a 1 + 1 contract with Fiat Torino. Brown is the new head coach of Fiat Torino. On: Sportando website; Rome, Italy, June 17, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
5. ↑ Basket, Torino saluta Larry Brown. Tra club e coach risoluzione consensuale. In: gazzetta.it. December 27, 2018, accessed June 20, 2019 (Italian).