A favorite of mine, 91 year old Hubie Brown, is going to call one last NBA basketball game on ESPN before officially retiring. Good for him, he still does a good job dissecting the game for the viewers.
The Basketball Hall of Famer’s finale will be in Milwaukee this Sunday, where his professional coaching career started in 1972. The Bucks will play host to the 76ers that afternoon with the game preceding the Super Bowl. Brown will work the game on ABC alongside Mike Breen, who will handle play-by-play duties.
Brown is a two-time NBA Coach of the Year and had stints as head coach of New York, Memphis and Atlanta. He has been with ESPN since 2004.
ESPN said it would honor Brown’s career — including more than 50 years associated with the NBA and 35 years as a national television and radio analyst — throughout that broadcast.
I’ve always been a big fan. For those of you who remember, Ted Turner’s “Superstation” out of Atlanta was first offered to cable subscribers in the ‘70s. That’s how so many folks became Braves baseball fans, as just about every game was aired. Well, same thing with the Hawks.
Hubie was coach of the Hawks back then, and it was great to get 82 NBA games to watch when prior to that you had one Sunday game a week, and only if our local Roanoke station didn’t air a lame movie instead. For some reason folks didn’t take to the Hawks like they did to the Braves, but I enjoyed watching the games. Long live Hubie, one of the all-time basketball greats.
And don’t get me started on Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion doing the Atlanta Flames NHL games. “He shoot. . .La Flame score!!!!”