Larry Brown

Quick Facts

Full Name	Larry Brown
Occupation	Basketball Coach
Date Of Birth	Sep 14, 1940(1940-09-14)
Age	84
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Virgo

Larry Brown Biography

Larry Brown is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Coach who was born on September 14, 1940 in New York, New York, United States. Prolific basketball coach who led 8 NBA teams into the playoffs, won the NCAA Championship with Kansas and won an NBA Championship with Detroit.

Only Brown, Pat Riley and a few other basketball coaches have 1,000+ career wins.

Lawrence Harvey Brown (born September 14, 1940) is a former American basketball coach and player who was most recently the head coach for Auxilium Torino of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and EuroCup Basketball. Brown is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship (Kansas Jayhawks, 1988) and an NBA title (Detroit Pistons, 2004). He has a 1,275-965 lifetime professional coaching record in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is the only coach in NBA history to lead eight teams to the playoffs. He also won an ABA championship as a player with the Oakland Oaks in the 1968–69 season, and an Olympic Gold Medal in 1964. He is also the only person ever to coach two NBA franchises in the same season (Spurs and Clippers during the 1991–92 NBA season). Before coaching, Brown played collegiately at the University of North Carolina and professionally in the ABA.

A stellar player for the Tar Heels in the early 1960s, Brown was considered too small to play in the NBA. He began his post-college career with the NABL’s Akron Wingfoots, where he played for two years (1964–65). He led the Wingfoots to the 1964 AAU National Championship. Brown was selected for Team USA’s 1964 Summer Olympics team, which won the gold medal..

He married Shelly Brown in 1993 and he has three daughters, Madison, Alli and Kristen, and a son, L.J. His parents were Ann and Milton Brown. After his father’s death, his mother kept his passing a secret for a whole month.

Larry Brown Net Worth

Larry Brown is one of the richest Basketball Coach from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Larry Brown 's net worth $70 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He played as a 5′ 9′ point guard at Long Beach High School, and then played at the University of North Carolina under coaches Frank McGuire and Dean Smith.

He became the first coach to ever win both an NCAA and NBA Championship.

Brown is Jewish, and was born in Brooklyn, New York. His maternal grandfather Hittelman was from Minsk, Belarus, and his mother’s family immigrated to the United States in 1910 and opened a bakery in Brooklyn. His mother met his father Milton Brown, a furniture salesman, when she was 26 years old. He has an older brother, Herbert, who has been an NBA head coach. In 1947 his father died suddenly of an aneurysm. His family moved first to Brooklyn, then to Long Beach, New York, on Long Island. His mother lived until the age of 106.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Larry Brown height 5 ft 9 in Larry weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Larry Brown Dating?

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Brown moved on to the ABA and coached with the Carolina Cougars and then the Denver Nuggets, who later joined the NBA in 1976, for five and a half seasons from 1974 to 1979. He then moved on to coach for UCLA (1979–1981), leading his freshman-dominated 1979–80 team to the NCAA title game before falling to Louisville, 59–54. However, that appearance was later vacated by the NCAA after two UCLA players were found to be ineligible—one of the few times a Final Four squad has had its record vacated. Brown was the head coach for the NBA’s New Jersey Nets for two years following that, from 1981 to 1983.

Facts & Trivia

Larry Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Coach. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Larry Brown celebrates birthday on September 14 of every year.

Perhaps Brown’s finest team at Kansas was the 1985-86 team. This squad put together a 35-4 record, the first 30-win season in KU history. They won the Big 8 regular season title for the first time since 1978, defeated Iowa State to win the 1986 Big 8 Tournament, and advanced to the 1986 Final Four before losing to Duke in the semifinals.

How many teams did Larry Brown coach?

He’s been head coach of the NBA’s Denver Nuggets, New Jersey Nets, San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers, Indiana Pacers, Philadelphia 76ers, Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks Charlotte Bobcats (now the Hornets). He’s the only coach in NBA history to lead eight different franchises to the playoffs.

Why did Larry Brown leave Kansas?

Brown resigned, according to reports, because the school wouldn’t offer the 75-year-old a long-term contract. When asked about his decision, Brown told ESPN’s Andy Katz: “I’ve got nothing else I can say right now.”

Is Larry Brown retired?

1972

Is Larry Brown in the Hall of Fame?

2002

Who is the youngest coach to win a national title?

As of the 2020 season, Ford is still the youngest coach to win a national championship, doing so at age 33. Just days after the 1982 season ended, however, the Tigers were found guilty of recruiting violations. While most of them occurred under Pell, the NCAA found they had continued under Ford.