Hubie Brown’s final broadcast of the Milwaukee Bucks vs. 76ers game will take place on February 9th

Hubie Brown’s final broadcast of the Milwaukee Bucks vs. 76ers game will take place on February 9th

Hubie Brown began his professional basketball coaching career as an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Hubie Brown, basketball coach and legendary broadcaster, will play his final NBA game on February 9 in Milwaukee, where he began his career as a professional basketball coach.

ESPN announced Tuesday that the 91-year-old will be celebrated this Sunday when the Milwaukee Bucks play the Philadelphia 76ers at Fiserv Forum. The game will be broadcast on ABC and the start time is 1:00 p.m

Brown was an assistant coach under Larry Costello for the Bucks from 1972 to 1974. He was part of the team that reached 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, who are currently fighting for the NBA championship against the Chicago Bulls in the second round of the playoffs. Front: Left to right: Oscar Robertson, Mickey Davis, Bob Dandridge, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dick Cunningham, Cornell Warner, Terry Driscoll and Curtis Perry. Back: Assistant Coach Hubie Brown, Russ Lee, Ron Williams, Lucius Allen, Jon McGlocklin, Dick Garrett, Coach Bill Bates and Coach Larry Costello. (Milwaukee Bucks)

Before Milwaukee, Brown was an assistant coach at Duke University and left Milwaukee to take the head coaching position with the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association, where he led the team to the 1975 ABA championship.

Brown played college basketball and baseball at Niagara University. After leaving Niagara, he joined the United States Army, where he joined the basketball team. After his honorable discharge, he briefly played professional basketball before returning to college to earn a master’s degree and begin a coaching career.

Hubie Brown, 80: ESPN NBA analyst.

Brown worked as a broadcaster for several networks, most notably ESPN and ABC, where he hosted the 2005 and 2006 NBA Finals. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor and the College Basketball Hall of Fame.

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