The final broadcast in the long career of ESPN NBA analyst Hubie Brown is set.
ESPN announced Tuesday that Brown is scheduled to serve as the analyst for the February 9 Sixers-Bucks NBA regular season game on ABC, which will be the final broadcast of his career. He will work alongside Mike Breen on the game, with whom he called the 2006 NBA Finals. The game, which is scheduled for Super Bowl Sunday, takes place in the city — Milwaukee — where Brown began his professional coaching career.
Brown joined ESPN/ABC as its lead NBA analyst in the 2004-05 season, working back-to-back NBA Finals on ABC — first with Al Michaels and then Breen. He previously called games for TNT and TBS, leaving those networks in 2002 to coach the Memphis Grizzlies. He is the longest-tenured ESPN NBA game analyst, having debuted on the network even before Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson.
Earlier in his career, he was the lead NBA analyst for CBS toward the end of that network’s tenure with the NBA, calling the NBA Finals alongside Dick Stockton in 1989 and 1990.
In addition to his four NBA Finals on television, Brown called the event for ESPN Radio from 2007-19.
Plans for Brown’s farewell broadcast were first revealed by ESPN executive Burke Magnus during an appearance on the Jimmy Traina-hosted Sports Illustrated Media Podcast.
