ESPN has announced that Hubie Brown, the legendary basketball coach and broadcaster, will call his final NBA game on Sunday, February 9, 2025, at 2 p.m. ET. The game will feature the Milwaukee Bucks hosting the Philadelphia 76ers and will air on ABC. Brown began his professional coaching career as an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks in 1972.
Brown, a two-time NBA Coach of the Year, will work with Mike Breen. The two are both Naismith Basketball Hall of Famers and worked together during the NBA Finals in 2006.
In a release, ESPN said, “During the broadcast, ESPN and the NBA will honor and celebrate Brown’s history-making career, which includes 50 years in the NBA and 35 years as a national television and radio analyst. More details about the special broadcast will be announced in the coming weeks.”
Brown, 91, recently suffered a major loss when his 54-year-old son Brendan, also a former coach and broadcaster, died suddenly in November.
After spending two years as an assistant coach for the Bucks, Brown moved over to the ABA as the head coach of the Kentucky Colonels where his team would win the league championship in his first season. In 1976 he came back to the NBA as the head coach of the Atlanta Hawks for five seasons.
After doing some broadcasting, he would return to the bench as head coach of the New York Knicks. Brown’s head coaching career would come to a halt after 16 games into the 1986-87 season. He would next coach in the NBA more than 15 years later when Jerry West brought him to Memphis as the head coach of the Grizzlies at the age of 69. Brown spent parts of three seasons with Memphis and coached his last game at the age of 71.
Brown joined ESPN in in 2004. In addition to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Brown has also been inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame, the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
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