Devin Brown
Devin Brown ( born December 30, 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah ) is an American professional basketball player. The 1.96 meter tall Brown plays primarily on the position of the shooting guards, but can also be used as a small forward.
Playing career
High School
Brown grew up in San Antonio, Texas, where he played organized basketball at South San Antonio West Campus High School and was able to score the most points as a high school player in the history of the city.
College
Then Devin played four years at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he was also the all-time leading scorer of the school was ( 1,922 points). On average, there he made 18.3 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.75 steals in 32.0 minutes per game.
As a freshman, he was elected to the 1998-99 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year. In addition, he was named three times to the All- Southland Conference First Team.
Brown is the only player of his university, who could ever achieve a triple -double. On February 17, 2001, he recorded 33 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists against Louisiana - Monroe Indians.
His jersey number was excluded from the UTSA of the future award. Thus he became the first Roadrunner, which this honor was granted.
NBA
Devin Brown was not selected in the NBA Draft in 2002 by an NBA team. However, he was invited to the summer training camp of the San Antonio Spurs. Just before the season he was released, received in November for two weeks but once a contract.
After he was selected by the Fayetteville Patriots in the draft of the National Basketball Development League in second place, he played for 44 games for the Patriots and became the 2003 NBDL Most Valuable Player and to the NBDL "Rookie of the Year". Devin held the league record of 38 points and 14 field goals in a game ( set on 5 December 2002 against North Charleston ).
In April 2003, he received a ten-day contract with the Denver Nuggets. For the season 2003/ 04 Devin signed for the third time at Spurs, for whom he played two seasons. 2004/ 05 he could even win the NBA championship with the team from San Antonio.
On 9 September 2005, he got a contract with the Utah Jazz. After just one season, however, he was traded on July 12, 2006 by the Jazz with Keith McLeod and Andre Owens to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Derek Fisher. Brown, however, was then immediately released by the Warriors.
On 22 December 2006 he received a contract with the New Orleans Hornets to fill the gaps created due to an injury of the team. He introduced himself as well into a team, that he ascended shortly thereafter in the starting lineup of the Hornets. A position he also filled after some of the previously injured Stars came back. The 2006/07 season was the best in his NBA career. He averaged 11.6 points and 4.3 rebounds in 58 games, of which he started 49.
On 29 September 2007 Brown signed a one-year contract with the reigning Eastern Conference champion, the Cleveland Cavaliers, for which he received more than 1 million U.S. dollars. There he got as a backup for Sasha Pavlovic on average 22.2 minutes playing time per game.
For the season 2008/ 09 Brown moved back to the Hornets. There he played until January 2010. On 26 January 2010, the Hornets announced that Brown was traded to the Chicago Bulls. In return, center Aaron Gray moved from the Bulls to the Hornets. At the Club, in which Michael Jordan scored his greatest success with the retracted from the club after retiring jersey number 23, graduated from Brown, whose favorite jersey number is also based on Michael Jordan 's 23, still eleven games in the season 2009/10.
In 465 NBA regular season games (127 starts) in his career could Brown recorded 7.2 points and 2.8 rebounds on average. In October 2011, he had a brief four-week comeback at the Polish ULEB Euro League Asseco Prokom Gdynia - starter. After he was discharged there, he tried again in January 2012 as a veteran in the NBA D -League Erie BayHawks in the where he was, however, released after four games as a player on the injured list.