Hubie Brown to be inducted into another Hall of Fame, his fourth

A Memphis Grizzlies royalty will obtain a new honorable immortalization for his unwavering contributions to the game.

Former Grizzlies head coach Hubie Brown will be inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2024.

This would mark another career enshrinement milestone for him following his entry to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (2005), College Basketball Hall of Fame (2006), and National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame (2022).

Legendary broadcaster

The 90-year-old Brown stands as one of the headliners of the 10-member Class of 2024. He got 150 votes from industry professionals. He is joined by fellow great sportscasters and broadcast experts Mark Lazarus, Bryant Gumbel, Andrea Kremer, Tommy Roy, and the late Chris Mortensen, to name a few.

A basketball lifer, Brown dedicated himself to delivering games to the national audience after his coaching career. From 1981 until 2001, he was an analyst for networks like USA Network, CBS, and TNT.

Hubie currently works for ESPN/ABC and is paired with Mark Jones and Dave Pasche. Brown has covered many NBA games throughout his career, highlighted by 18 appearances in the broadcasting huddle for the NBA Finals.

Brown and the rest of his contemporaries will be inducted later this year on Dec. 17 at the New York Hilton Hotel.

Hubie's coaching run for Memphis

Brown was one of the driving forces of the Grizzlies' first success in the franchise's history.

Approached by the late general manager Jerry West in 2002 for the team's head coaching vacancy, the then-69-year-old Hubie accepted the daunting challenge of handling the rebuilding of Memphis despite age concerns and a lengthy coaching pause of over two decades.

Nevertheless, the bold gamble paid off as it kickstarted the franchise's emergence out of mediocrity.

Hubie honed the Grizzlies into a promisingly competitive team in partnership with West. After a slow first season, Memphis skyrocketed among the NBA's elites the following year, winning 50 games that qualified the franchise for its first-ever NBA Playoffs.

This dramatic turnaround gifted Brown the 2003-04 Coach of the Year award—his second after 26 years since winning his first with the Atlanta Hawks.

Although his time in Bluff City was short-lived, as he eventually left the organization in the early portion of the 2004-05 season due to health issues, Hubie will remain respected by the Grizzlies fanbase and is indelibly etched in the Memphis sports record books.

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