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Sunday before the Super Bowl, Hubie Brown will broadcast his final NBA game on ABC at 2 pm ET on ABC, he will be paired with Mike Breen for the 76ers at the Bucks in Milwaukee where Brown got his start in the NBA.
Brown at 91 years of age, will retire from a broadcasting career that began in the mid-80’s.
Brown began his basketball coaching career in 1955 at St. Mary Academy in Little Falls, NY. His high school coaching career continued until 1967 when he joined jumped to the college ranks and began as an assistant at William and Mary. From there he was a Duke assistant from 1968-1972. In 1972 he became an NBA assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks. His first pro head coaching job came with the Kentucky Colonels from ’74-’76, winning the 1975 ABA Championship.
From ’76-’81 he was the head coach of the Atlanta Hawks.
From ’82-’86 he was the head coach of the New York Knicks.
His NBA broadcasting career began on the USA Network in 1985. After leaving the Knicks in ’86 he was hired by CBS. He later broadcast games for Turner.
He returned to coaching in 2002, with the Memphis Grizzlies until 2004.
He’s been with ESPN since 2004.
Brown joined Chris “Mad Dog” Russo on SirusXM’s MadDog Sports Radio this week and spoke on the topic of broadcasting on TV among other topics:
“I think that we always try to approach it that you a never underestimate the IQ of your audience, whether you’re teaching in a class or whether I was doing a clinic, you know, somewhere in the, in the world because we did so many clinics internationally as well, North and South America and then here in the United States. So I always thought that I was a basketball teacher first. You never underestimate the audience”
The great Hubie Brown becomes very emotional when Mad Dog Russo asks him about the personal tragedies he’s suffered recently. Hubie lost his wife, daughter and son, all in the past two years. 💔 pic.twitter.com/gSieHq8QDV
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