Larry Brown (basketball)

Larry Brown

Brown in 2005
Personal information
Born	(1940-09-14) September 14, 1940 (age 76) Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
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 / Round: 7 / Pick: 55th overall
Selected by the Baltimore Bullets
Playing career	1967–1972
Position	Point guard
Number	11
Coaching career	1969–present
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 (asst.)
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
Career highlights and awards
As player: ABA champion (1969) 3× ABA All-Star (1968–1970) ABA All-Star MVP (1968) All-ABA Second Team (1968) As coach: NBA champion (2004) NBA Coach of the Year (2001) 2× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1977, 2001) NCAA champion (1988) Naismith College Coach of the Year (1988) 3× ABA Coach of the Year (1973, 1975, 1976)
Career ABA statistics
Points	4,229 (11.2 ppg)
Rebounds	1,005 (2.7 rpg)
Assists	2,509 (6.7 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006
Medals Men's basketball Representing  United States Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Team competition men's national basketball team Head Coach for  United States 2004 Athens Team men's national basketball team Assistant Coach for  United States 2000 Sydney Team men's national basketball team

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As coach:

Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown (born September 14, 1940) is an American basketball coach, who was most recently head men's basketball coach at Southern Methodist University. He is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship (Kansas, 1988) and an NBA title (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 different teams 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). Before coaching, Brown played collegiality at the University of North Carolina and professionally in the ABA. He has been a basketball coach since 1972.

Brown was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach on September 27, 2002. Although widely considered one of the greatest coaches in basketball history, he has developed a reputation for constantly looking for better coaching opportunities and frequently switching teams or programs before the expiration of his contract.

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