Marcus Brown

This article is about the basketball player. For the American football cornerback for the New Orleans VooDoo, see Marcus Brown (cornerback, born 1986). For the American football cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks, see Marcus Brown (cornerback, born 1987).

Marcus Brown

Brown with CSKA Moscow in 2005.
Nickname(s)	MB 5
Position	Shooting Guard
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Number	4, 5, 20, and 41
Born	April 3, 1974 (1974-04-03) (age 37) West Memphis, Arkansas, United States
Nationality	American
College	Murray State
Draft	2nd round, 46th overall, 1996 Portland Trail Blazers
Pro career	1996–2011
Career history	Portland Trail Blazers (1996–97) ÉB Pau-Orthez (1998) Detroit Pistons (1999) CSP Limoges (1999-00) Benetton Treviso (2000-01) Efes Pilsen (2001-03) CSKA Moscow (2003-05) Unicaja Málaga (2005-07) Žalgiris Kaunas (2007-08) Maccabi Tel Aviv (2008-09) Žalgiris Kaunas (2009-11)
Awards	All-Euroleague First Team 2004 2x All-Euroleague Second Team (2003, 2005) 2x French League MVP (1998, 2000) French League Finals MVP (2000) 2x Turkish League MVP (2002, 2003) 2x Russian League MVP (2004, 2005) 3x LKL All-Star (2008, 2010, 2011) Lithuanian League Finals MVP (2008)

Marcus James Brown (born April 3, 1974, in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States) is a retired American professional basketball player. At 6'4" (1.93 m), he played as a shooting guard. Brown has been mentioned as being one of the top U.S. athletes to ever play abroad. He was most recently a player-coach with BC Žalgiris.^[1]

Player profile

Brown, a 6'4" (193 cm) ^[2] shooting guard, is the Euroleague's all-time leading scorer with over 2,500 career points scored. On March 11, 2009, Brown became the first player to 2,500 points in Euroleague history (since the 2000-01 season). In 2008, he passed Luis Scola to become the all-time Euroleague scoring leader (since the 2000-01 season). It was reported that earlier in his career he was once the highest paid American player in the history of Euroleague basketball which began in 2000.

A high-quality player who has always been able to make a big impact in top-level European teams, Brown has played at the Euroleague Final Four in 2004, 2005 and 2007. He has also earned All-Euroleague Team selections in 2003, 2004 and 2005. He was selected to the All-Euroleague Second Team for the 2002-03 season when he played for Efes Pilsen, and he was selected to the All-Euroleague First Team for the 2003-04 season and to the Second Team for the 2004-05 season when he played for CSKA Moscow. He was nominated to the 2007 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors list, as one of the Euroleague's 35 greatest all-time players, although he was not selected to the final list.

College career

Brown attended and played collegiality at Murray State University in the Ohio Valley Conference. In his senior college season, he averaged 26.4 points per game on 50 percent shooting from the field and 42 percent shooting from 3-point range. It was announced in October 2009 that Brown was named to the Murray State University Athletic Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame on February 6, 2010. That same night his No. 5 jersey was retired and is hanging in the rafters at the CFSB Center.

Pro career

Brown was selected with the 17th pick of the 2nd round in the 1996 NBA Draft by the NBA club the Portland Trail Blazers. He played the 1996–1997 NBA season with the Trail Blazers, where he averaged 4 points per game in 9 minutes per game, while shooting 41 percent from 3 point range in his rookie season. He then signed with the Vancouver Grizzlies for the 1997–1998 season, but he did not play in any regular season games for them.

The Grizzlies then released him during the season in 1998, and he then signed with the French League club ÉB Pau-Orthez for the remainder of the 1997–1998 season. He averaged 20.5 points per game in the French League with Pau-Orthez and led them to the 1998 French League championship. He was also named the French League's MVP that year. Unfortunately, Brown tore the ACL in his knee in the final game of the French playoffs.

Brown took off the entire 1998–1999 season to rehab his knee injury. He then played in the NBA again with the Detroit Pistons at the start of the 1999–2000 season. The Pistons released him in 1999, after he played with the club in 6 regular season games. He then returned to the French League, where he signed with CSP Limoges for the remainder of the 1999–2000 season. With Limoges, he won the French League championship, the French Cup championship, and the Korać Cup championship. He was once again named the French League's MVP and he was also named the MVP of the French playoffs.

After having dominated the French League for 2 seasons, he then moved up to the higher level Italian League, where he signed with the Italian Euroleague club Benetton Treviso for the 2000–2001 season. With Benetton he played in the Euroleague for the first time and he averaged 19.9 points per game that season in the Euroleague. After that season, he signed with one of the biggest clubs in the Euroleague, the Turkish League club Efes Pilsen.

Over the next two seasons with Efes, Brown dominated in the Turkish League as he won 2 Turkish National Cups, 2 Turkish National Championships, and 2 Turkish League MVP awards. He was also named to the Euroleague 2002-03 season's All-Euroleague Second Team, after he averaged 19.6 points per game. Brown then moved the Russian Super League powerhouse CSKA Moscow.

Over the next two seasons with CSKA, he dominated in the Russian League as he won 1 Russian Basketball Cup, 2 Russian National Championships, and 2 Russian League MVP awards. He was also named to the Euroleague 2003-04 season's All-Euroleague First Team and to the Euroleague 2004-05 season's All-Euroleague Second Team while he was a member of CSKA.

Brown then spent the next two seasons playing with Unicaja Málaga of the Spanish ACB League, where over those 2 years he would play alongside fellow ex-NBA players Daniel Santiago, Pepe Sánchez, Jorge Garbajosa, and Jiří Welsch. He helped to lead Unicaja Málaga to its first ever Spanish National Championship during the 2005-06 season.^{[citation needed]}

After spending two seasons with Málaga, Brown joined the Lithuanian League club Žalgiris Kaunas. With Zalgiris in the 2007-08 season, Brown won the Lithuanian National Championship, the Lithuanian National Cup, and the Baltic Championship all in the same season. He was also named the MVP of the Lithuanian League playoff finals that season.

On October 19, 2008, Brown was loaned from (Žalgiris) and signed for the Euroleague club Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli League for the 2008-09 season and with them won yet another country championship in May 2009.^[3]

Brown rejoined (Žalgiris) in 2009, and helped the team win the BBL Cup.^[4]

It was announced in October 2009 that Brown was named to the Murray State University Athletic Hall of Fame.

On November 25, 2009 Marcus Brown became one of the just four players who have managed to score 300 or more three point shots in Euroleague.^[5]

On October 17, 2011, the Euroleague planned a ceremony to honor the legendary Marcus Brown during halftime on opening night of the 2011-2012 season in the new BC Zalgiris 16,000 seat arena in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Personal achievements and awards

• 1997-98 French League MVP (ÉB Pau-Orthez)
• 1999-00 French League MVP (CSP Limoges)
• 1999-00 French Championship Finals MVP (CSP Limoges)
• 2001-02 Euroleague Week-19 MVP (Efes Pilsen)
• 2001-02 Turkish League MVP (Efes Pilsen)
• 2002-03 Turkish League MVP (Efes Pilsen)
• 2002-03 All-Euroleague Second Team (Efes Pilsen)
• 2002-03 Euroleague Week-17 MVP (Efes Pilsen)
• 2003-04 All-Euroleague First Team (CSKA Moscow)
• 2003-04 Russian League MVP (CSKA Moscow)
• 2004-05 Russian League MVP (CSKA Moscow)
• 2004-05 All-Euroleague Second Team (CSKA Moscow)
• 2007-08 Euroleague December MVP (Žalgiris)
• 2007-08 Lithuanian League Finals MVP (Žalgiris)
• 2009-10 Baltic Basketball League Championship MVP (Žalgiris)

Championships

• 1997-98 French National Championship (ÉB Pau-Orthez)
• 1999-00 Korać Cup Championship (CSP Limoges)
• 1999-00 French National Championship (CSP Limoges)
• 1999-00 French National Cup (CSP Limoges)
• 2001-02 Turkish National Cup (Efes Pilsen)
• 2001-02 Turkish National Championship (Efes Pilsen)
• 2002-03 Turkish National Cup (Efes Pilsen)
• 2002-03 Turkish National Championship (Efes Pilsen)
• 2003-04 Russian National Championship (CSKA Moscow)
• 2004-05 Russian National Championship (CSKA Moscow)
• 2004-05 Russian National Cup (CSKA Moscow)
• 2005-06 Spanish National Championship (CB Málaga)
• 2007-08 Lithuanian National Cup (Žalgiris)
• 2007-08 Baltic League Championship (Žalgiris)
• 2007-08 Lithuanian League Championship (Žalgiris)
• 2008-09 Israeli League Championship (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
• 2009-10 Baltic Basketball League Cup (Žalgiris)
• 2009-10 Baltic League Championship (Žalgiris)
• 2010-11 Lithuanian National Cup (Žalgiris)
• 2010-11 Baltic League Championship (Žalgiris)
• 2010-11 Lithuanian League Championship (Žalgiris)

NBA career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1996–97	Portland	21	0	8.8	.400	.406	.684	.7	1.0	.4	.1	3.9
1999–00	Detroit	6	0	7.5	.286	.000	1.000	1.2	.5	.0	.0	1.7
Career		27	0	8.5	.381	.333	.714	.8	.9	.3	.0	3.4

Notes

1. ^ M.Brownas paskirtas "Žalgirio" vyr. treneriu,[1]
2. ^ Spanish ACB League player profile 1.93 m or 6'4" in height.
3. ^ Maccabi lands scoring ace Marcus Brown.
4. ^ BBL Cup: Zalgiris earn the trophy
5. ^ TalkBasket: Marcus Brown scores 300 threepointers!

References

• "Reigning King of Europe". ESPN". Retrieved July 23, 2011. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6795130/marcus-brown-all-time-leading-euroleague-scorer. 
• "Players In Europe Ponder A N.B.A. Pension". The New York Times". December 13, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/sports/basketball/13pension.html. Retrieved May 12, 2010. 
• "Top Five U.S. Athletes To Play Abroad Team Sports". Bleacher Report". 2009-06-12. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/198294-top-five-us-athletes-to-play-abroad-team-sports/page/6. 

External links

• Euroleague's 35 Greatest Players Fan's Nominees @ Euroleague.net
• NBA & college stats @ Basketballreference.com
• Unicaja Player Profile @ Unicajabaloncesto.com (Spanish)
• Euroleague Player Profile @ Euroleague.net
• Spanish League Player Profile @ ACB.com (Spanish)
• Video Interview with Marcus Brown @ FIBA.com
• Article on Brown @ Draftexpress.com

Persondata
Name	Brown, Marcus
Alternative names
Short description	Basketball player
Date of birth	April 3, 1974
Place of birth	West Memphis, Arkansas, United States
Date of death
Place of death