ESPN’s Hubie Brown to retire after 2024-25 season, will call one more game

ESPN’s Hubie Brown to retire after 2024-25 season, will call one more game

Longtime ESPN NBA broadcaster and former head coach Hubie Brown will be calling it quits after the 2024-25 season with the opportunity to call one more game, Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina first reported Thursday morning.

ESPN President Burke Magnus told Traina on his SI Media podcast, which was released Thursday.

“We are going to give Hubie one last shot on a game,” Magnus said. “He deserves that. We think the world of him. I think it is absolutely remarkable the level in which he still calls games at age 90-plus. I don’t mean to be purposely mysterious here but we are going to honor Hubie during the regular season at some point to be determined and send him off in style.”

The date of the game has yet to be finalized at the time of this publishing.

Brown, 91, has been with ESPN and ABC since 2005, including calling a pair of NBA Finals series in 2005 and 2006 alongside Mike Breen before being replaced by Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson.

He also had multiple broadcasting stints with USA Network, TNT and CBS over his career–though those were subsequently interrupted by multiple coaching stints.

He was a head coach for 13 combined NBA and ABA seasons with the Kentucky Colonels, Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks and Memphis Grizzlies. He went 528-559 for his career, winning two Coach of the Year awards with one ABA championship in 1975. Before his head coaching career began, he coached as an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks after college assistant gigs with Duke and William & Mary.

Brown is a basketball lifer. He’s coached multiple of the game’s greats, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson; conversely, he’s also coached against several, including Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and LeBron James. He’s been involved with the league since before the merger and has had a front seat to greatness across multiple generations.

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