Hubie Brown’s last game is on February 9th for the Milwaukee Bucks vs. 76ers

On By Littum

Hubie Brown, basketball coach and legendary broadcaster, will call his final NBA game on Feb. 9 in Milwaukee, where he began his professional basketball coaching career.

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

Brown was an assistant coach under Larry Costello for the Bucks from 1972 to 1974. He was part of the staff that reached the 1974 NBA Finals with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson, but fell in seven games to the Boston Celtics.

Prior to Milwaukee, Brown was an assistant coach at Duke University, and he 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 US Army where he joined the basketball team. After being honorably discharged, he briefly played professional basketball before returning to college to earn a master’s degree and begin a coaching career.

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