Hubie Brown picks Milwaukee, where he coached in the '70s, for his final game as an NBA broadcaster
Hubie Brown started his pro basketball coaching
career as an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks.
FILE PHOTO
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - December 17, 2024
Hubie Brown, basketball coach and legendary broadcaster, will call his final NBA game on Feb. 9 in Milwaukee, where he began his professional basketball coaching career.
ESPN announced Tuesday that the 91-year-old will be celebrated on that Sunday as the Milwaukee Bucks play the Philadelphia 76ers at Fiserv Forum. The game airs on ABC and tipoff is 1 p.m.
Brown was an assistant coach under Larry Costello for the Bucks from 1972 to 1974. He was part of the staff that made the NBA Finals in 1974 with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson, but fell in seven games to the Boston Celtics.

Here are the Milwaukee Bucks, currently staging their drive for the NBA championship in the second round of the playoffs against the Chicago Bulls. Front: Left to right, Oscar Robertson, Mickey Davis, Bob Dandridge, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dick Cunningham, Cornell Warner, Terry Driscoll and Curtis Perry. Rear: Assistant Coach Hubie Brown, Russ Lee, Ron Williams, Lucius Allen, Jon McGlocklin, Dick Garrett, trainer Bill Bates and Coach Larry Costello. (Milwaukee Bucks)
JOURNAL SENTINEL ARCHIVES
Prior to Milwaukee, Brown was an assistant coach at Duke University and he left Milwaukee to take the head coach position with the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association, where he led the team to the 1975 ABA championship.
Brown played college basketball and baseball at Niagara University. After leaving Niagara, he joined the U.S. Army where he joined the basketball team. After being honorably discharged, he briefly played professional basketball before returning to college to pursue a master's degree and begin a coaching career.

Hubie Brown, 80: ESPN NBA analyst.
KIRBY LEE, USA TODAY SPORTS
Brown worked for several networks as a broadcaster, most notably ESPN and ABC where he called the 2005 and 2006 NBA Finals. He is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor and College Basketball Hall of Fame.
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