Career
He is the former head coach of the Detroit Pistons (1976-1978). Brown was named head coach of the National Basketball Association"s Detroit Pistons during the 1975-1976 National Basketball Association season, replacing Ray Scott, who"d gone 17-25. He then guided the team into the second round of the National Basketball Association playoffs where the Pistons lost to Golden State, four games to two.
The following season, the Pistons went 44-38 under Brown, before losing in the first round of the playoffs to the Golden State Warriors.
The Pistons fired Brown on December 15, 1977, after a 9-15 start to the 1977-1978 National Basketball Association season, replacing him with the team"s 32-year-old general manager, Bob Kauffman, who went 29-29 as head coach. The Bobcats are Brown"s third team on which he has served under brother Larry.
Together, they helped coach the Pistons to the National Basketball Association championship in 2004, and led the Philadelphia 76ers to the 2001 National Basketball Association Finals. Brown has also served as an assistant coach for several teams, including the Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers, Phoenix Suns, and Atlanta Hawks.
He also coached overseas, most notably in Spain in the early 1990s.
Brown served as head coach at C.W. Post (of Long Island University) from 1972-1974, going 21-5 and 13-12 over two seasons. On September 3, 2014, Brown was named an assistant coach at Portland. In 1978, Brown was named head coach of the, a franchise in the newly formed Western Basketball Association (WBA).
Brown was head coach of the Puerto Rico Coquis of the Continental Basketball Association (College of Business Administration) from 1983-1985, going 28-16 and 27-21, in 1983-1984 and 1984-1985, respectively.
He also coached the Cincinnati Slammers of the College of Business Administration in 1985-1986. In June 1990, Brown was named head coach and vice president of basketball operations for the Baltimore BayRunners of the International Basketball League (IBL).
He was fired after going 10-20 in the team"s inaugural season. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Brown is a graduate of the University of Vermont.
The author of three books about basketball, he runs a Basketball Academy in the summer at the New Jersey Y Camps.
In 2006, he was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. He has two children--in Charlotte and New Jersey, respectively--and two step-children.