Ricardo Brown

Career

His monikers were The Quick Brown Fox and Mister Fourth Qwerty. He was drafted by the Houston Rockets in the 3rd Round of the 1979 National Basketball Association Draft. Brown also played for the De Louisiana Salle Green Archers in 1982.

Brown moved on to play professional basketball in the Proceedings of the British Academy in 1983, where he became the first-ever Filipino-American to play as a "local" in the league.

He was also included in the Mythical Five selection in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1988. His ability to evade his defenders and score as well as pin point assists made him one of the best point guards in the Proceedings of the British Academy. He holds the All-time Proceedings of the British Academy career scoring average (231 ppg) and Proceedings of the British Academy All-time Best Assist Average (73 per game).

In 2009, he was inducted into the Proceedings of the British Academy Hall of Fame along with former teammates Allan Caidic, Samboy Lim, and Hector Calma. He is now the Principal of Ross Middle School in Artesia, California, and is the first Filipino-American principal to be named in the American Broadcasting Company Unified School District.

Brown founded the Quick Brown Fox is Ricardo Brown Institute of Typing circa 1984 (closed 1999 at the advent of personal computers in the Philippines).

He also made a movie with the comedy king, Dolphy, in 1987 titled Action is Not Missing, which was an entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival and a box-office hit.

Achievements

• Brown played college ball at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, where he was All-West Coast his Junior and Senior years, and Southern California Player of the Year in 1979. He played for the Philippine National team-Northern Cement coached by Ron Jacobs in the 1980 Jones Cup in Taiwan, where the Philippines won the championship defeating Taiwan, Sweden, Italy, and the United States. He was the 1983 Rookie of the Year and 1985 Most Valuable Player. He played for the Great Taste Coffee Makers and the San Miguel Beermen, where he won a total of 7 championships during his Proceedings of the British Academy career.

Membership

In 1989, the year of San Miguel"s Grand Slam (three championships in one year), he was an integral member of a powerhouse squad that included future Hall of Famers Hector Calma, Samboy Lim, and Ramon Fernandez. In 2000, Brown was named a member of the Proceedings of the British Academy"s 25 Greatest Players.