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The Colonels finally won it all in 1975 with Hubie Brown as a coach, Stan Albeck as his assistant and five new players--Ted McClain, Gene Littles, Bird Averitt, Wil Jones and Marv Roberts.  Under Brown, the Colonels led the league in defense, allowing 101.6 points per game. They finished 58-26, winning 22 of their last 25 and a one-game playoff against New York for the regular-season Eastern Division title.  In the playoffs, the Colonels were a machine, beating Memphis, St. Louis and Indiana, all 4-1. They lost only three home games all year, going 49-3 at home counting the playoffs. They gave notice early that this would be a special season when they beat New York after trailing by seven points with only 30 seconds left on November 13. HUBIE BROWN: When I got the job, I knew the pressure was tremendous to win it all. The town, management and the players were accustomed to winning and expected to win. What we needed to do was find that right chemistry, that spark which takes a...

ABC television basketball analyst Hubie Brown goes over stats while sitting at the scorer's table before Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on June 9, 2015.  (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)  (MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images via Getty Images) https://www.aol.com/sports/hubie-brown-91-final-season-154753707.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADaUmJPDEmkLlDjESe2P6GxD_c2alcNhalc_sMuGFbSPbT4v6jQ3Ff_cMwaML_JseTs6pVYCw82GGgPPne_1S6UdnCNwXSiSQU_o4qEIKs1t118OC9Fb-VKrweiQ3v3Iy0-rAjFWxQ14c4Hoi-3EjWNKnrPDdWkYFjdVlt_Sg6Ue Sean Leahy November 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM Longtime NBA broadcaster and former coach Hubie Brown is in his final season calling games, ESPN's content president Burke Magnus said this week. Appearing on the " SI Media with Jimmy Traina " podcast, Magnus said of the 91-year-old Brown, "I don’t think there’s a single human being that’s ever had a longer a...

Hubie Brown started his pro basketball coaching  career  as an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks.  FILE PHOTO https://eu.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2024/12/17/hubie-brown-final-nba-broadcast-feb-9-milwaukee-bucks-philadelphia-76ers/77060775007/ DRAKE BENTLEY   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 NB...

https://www.amazon.it/Hoops-Memories-Momenti-basket-americano-ebook/dp/B01JAC2GTQ di CHRISTIAN GIORDANO © Rainbow Sports Books © Dan Issel ha giocato a livello pro per sedici anni, undici dei quali a Denver. Ma se fosse dipeso da lui, la sua carriera l’avrebbe trascorsa tutta nel Kentucky. Nato a Batavia, nell’Illinois, nel 1970 Issel era un All-American di 2.04 della University of Kentucky con in tasca la certezza di essere una prima scelta al draft dei pro. Il punto era: di quale draft? Il primo in ordine cronologico era quello della ABA e lì Issel fu chiamato da Dallas. Ma l’ex Wildcat dichiarò che il solo modo di farlo giocare nella ABA era che ci fosse una franchigia a Louisville, appunto nel Kentucky. Neanche il tempo di cantare My Old Kentucky Home e Louisville non solo aveva una squadra, i Kentucky Colonels, ma anche i diritti su Issel. Dan era così entusiasta di rimanere nel Kentucky da firmare un contratto di cinque anni per meno di 500 mila dollari prima anc...

di DANIELE VECCHI Old Timers -    Quando la NBA  era  lʼAmerica Philadelphia, la Città dellʼamore fraterno, dagli anni Quaranta è il teatro della Narbeth League, con la celeberrima Sonny Hill League, naturale proseguimento della leggendaria Baker League, una delle più entusiasmanti summer league del paese. Verso la metà degli anni Sessanta, alla Narbeth League si presentò una sconosciuta e giovanissima squadra composta prevalentemente da ragazzi di un liceo dellʼAlabama, la Dotham High School. Si iscrissero con il colorito nome di Three Country Boys, erano tutti afroamericani e si facevano gli affari loro, non erano supponenti ma sembravano comunque molto sicuri di sé e della propria forza. Come punta di diamante avevano uno spilungone di due metri e dieci, con la faccia, i capelli e la (curatissima) barba già da navigato signore sulla cinquantina, anche se di anni non ne aveva più di diciotto.  Il ragazzone lasciò a bocca aperta i presenti alle sue ...