Larry Brown (basketball)

Larry Brown

Brown in 2014
Personal information
Born	(1940-09-14) September 14, 1940 (age 84) New York City, New York, U.S.
Listed height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Listed weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
High school	Long Beach (Lido Beach, New York)
College	North Carolina (1960–1963)
NBA draft	1963: 7th round, 55th overall pick
Selected by the Baltimore Bullets
Playing career	1967–1972
Position	Point guard
Number	11
Coaching career	1965–1967, 1972–2022
Career history
As player:
1967–1968	New Orleans Buccaneers
1968–1971	Oakland Oaks / Washington Caps / Virginia Squires
1971–1972	Denver Rockets
As coach:
1965–1967	North Carolina (assistant)
1972–1974	Carolina Cougars
1974–1979	Denver Nuggets
1979–1981	UCLA
1981–1983	New Jersey Nets
1983–1988	Kansas
1988–1992	San Antonio Spurs
1992–1993	Los Angeles Clippers
1993–1997	Indiana Pacers
1997–2003	Philadelphia 76ers
2003–2005	Detroit Pistons
2005–2006	New York Knicks
2008–2010	Charlotte Bobcats
2012–2016	SMU
2018	Auxilium Torino
2021	Memphis (assistant)
2022	Memphis (advisor to HC)
Career highlights and awards
As player: ABA champion (1969) 3× ABA All-Star (1968–1970) ABA All-Star MVP (1968) 3× ABA assists leader (1968–1970) All-ABA Second Team (1968) First-team All-ACC (1963) Second-team All-ACC (1962) As coach: NBA champion (2004) NBA Coach of the Year (2001) 3× ABA All-Star Game head coach (1973, 1975, 1976) 2× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1977, 2001) 3× ABA Coach of the Year (1973, 1975, 1976) Top 15 Coaches in NBA History NCAA Division I tournament champion (1988) 3x NCAA Division I Regional – Final Four (1980*, 1986, 1988) Naismith College Coach of the Year (1988) 2× Big Eight tournament champion (1984, 1986) Big Eight regular season champion (1986) Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award (2021) AAC tournament champion (2015) AAC regular season champion (2015) * Vacated by the NCAA
Career ABA playing statistics
Points	4,229 (11.2 ppg)
Rebounds	1,005 (2.7 rpg)
Assists	2,509 (6.7 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference
Career coaching record
ABA & NBA	1327–1011 (.568)
Record at Basketball Reference
Basketball Hall of Fame
Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
Medals Men's basketball Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Men's basketball Head coach for the  United States 2004 Athens Men's basketball Assistant coach for the  United States 2000 Sydney Men's basketball FIBA Americas Championship Head coach for the  United States 2003 San Juan Men's basketball Maccabiah Games Representing the  United States 1961 Israel Men's basketball

Lawrence Harvey Brown (born September 14, 1940) is an American basketball coach and former player who last served as an assistant coach for the Memphis Tigers. Brown is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship (Kansas Jayhawks, 1988) and an NBA title (Detroit Pistons, 2004). He has a 1,275–965 lifetime professional coaching record in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is the only coach in NBA history to lead eight teams (differing franchises) to the playoffs. He also won an ABA championship as a player with the Oakland Oaks in the 1968–69 season, and an Olympic gold medal in 1964. He is also the only person ever to coach two NBA franchises in the same season (Spurs and Clippers during the 1991–92 NBA season).^[1] Before coaching, Brown played collegiately at the University of North Carolina and professionally in the ABA.

Brown was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach on September 27, 2002. On July 8, 2021, the National Basketball Coaches Association awarded Brown the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award.^[2]