Roger Brown (basketball, born 1942)

Roger Brown ( May 22nd, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, † March 4, 1997 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American professional basketball player. In his eight-year professional career in the American Basketball Association Brown scored 10,438 points, fetched three times the league championship with the Indiana Pacers and was awarded several times as an All -Star. 2013 he was nominated for his sporting achievements in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Play

Brown played on the positions of guard and small forward, where he made his mark in the game one-on -one. He was considered a strong offensive and throw dangerous player, especially from the three- point line.

College

In the season 1960-1961 Brown completed his first high school season for the team from the University of Dayton. During his debut season, however, he was banished from the squad of the team. Background was his acquaintance with Jack Molinas, who was identified as the central figure in a betting scam with college basketball. It neither complicity nor by other official charges against Brown were raised. Nevertheless, it became the team and Brown suspended along with Connie Hawkins later notoriety as a prominent faces of the manipulation scandal, who were honored in the course of their careers but as members of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

ABA

In 1967 Brown was the first player to the newly established Indiana Pacers took in the ABA under contract. He wore the shirt of the Pacers in each of his eight seasons, said he was already after ten games of the regular season stepped back in the 1974-75 season of professional sports. Brown was a member of three championship TeamD the Pacers. The first title succeeded in 1970. Brown was in the final series against the team from Los Angeles the key players of the Pacers, with an average of 28.5 points in six finals. In one of them he scored 53 points. In the title in 1973, however, Brown was not in the starting lineup and came off the bench.

Awards

  • ABA Playoffs Most Valuable Player in 1970
  • All- ABA First Team, 1971
  • ABA All-Star in 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972
  • Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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