He just sounds like a great broadcaster.”Īt a time when sports voices can come and go, Brown’s endurance makes him a marvel. I forget his age and I’m sure people listening do as well. “His ability to communicate the game, to teach the game, is unsurpassed. “When the lights go on, he brings it,” says Brown’s current play-by-play partner, Dave Pasch. But for the ones he does-he’s set to call Celtics-Bucks Game 3 in Milwaukee on ABC on May 7-he’s locked in, prepared. “I never rooted for one team over another in 33 years of doing this.”īrown calls fewer games than he used to. “People honestly think sometimes that you’re rooting for one team over the other,” he says. “You have to say something that is going to educate the fan,” he says. Today you can see and hear him on ESPN/ABC, his rumbly North Jersey accent making hoops slang like down screens, back screens, double screens sound like inbound stops to Penn Station. After breaking in with the USA, there were stops atĪnd Turner. Television became Brown’s unexpected calling. “He’s probably the greatest teacher that basketball has ever had,” says Eric Musselman, the head coach at Arkansas, who briefly worked with Brown during a “End of quarter, end of game,” says Fratello. (Have you heard about a “Hawk set?” You’ve definitely seen it. Brown’s innovative playbook lingers in today’s NBA. His clinics from him schooled generations more. Tony Tomsic/Sports Illustrated/Getty Imagesīy now, Brown’s coaching tree has sprouted its own forest, with names like Mike Fratello and Rick Pitino as well as Brown’s own son, Brendan. “You can’t do this unless your family buys in,” Brown says gratefully. The itinerant lifestyle wasn’t without challenges Brown and his wife, Claire, moved their family, which grew to four children, nine times by Hubie’s recollection, each move meaning new schools, new churches, new neighbors. I was happy in college, I was happy in the pros,” Brown says. “I can honestly say this: I was happy at high school. Head coaching jobs followed with the ’70s Atlanta Hawks, ’80s New York Knicks-check out Hubie in plaid blazers and mock turtleneck sweaters-and, in a midlife twist, the early 2000s Memphis Grizzlies, where in 2004, he was named Coach of the Year for a second time.
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He became a pro head coach with the Colonels, then in Kentucky, and part of the ABA. Mary’s Academy in Little Falls, NY Nine years in high school…assistant jobs at William & Mary and Duke (with fellow assistant Chuck Daly)…and on to the NBA as an assistant to Kareem’s championship Bucks. But a chat with Hubie makes me look up a name (Bailey Howell) I should know much more about.īrown’s basketball journey mirrors the game’s growth: a playing career with Niagara University and the Rochester Colonels of the old EPBL, then a coaching job at St. He admires what Ja, Giannis and Steph can do, like everyone else watching today. (“I’ve never seen anyone like Elgin Baylor,” he says.) He avoids the greatest-ever debates, because it’s unfair to compare eras, and he’s not stuck in the past. He coached against the stars and forgotten stars, Bird and Magic, Jordan and LeBron, and don’t get Hubie started on Elgin Baylor, whom he first saw play in college.
“But the calendar tells me I am.”īrown’s been around basketball for so long, he didn’t have to Google any members of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary team-“I probably saw most of them,” he says. He doesn’t say being around basketball keep him young. “Watching games, looking at video, preparing, sitting at half court and being involved with all of these incredible young athletes-it gives you the vibes that you’re still part of it.” “It allows me to stay in the basketball world,” Brown says. Now Brown is on the phone, and I want to know why he keeps at this, why he loves it, why he isn’t on a beach or back nine somewhere.