Catch You On The Rebound: Denham Brown

On February 7, 2002 Denham Brown accomplished something that few basketball players do?



He scored more than 100 points in a basketball game with 111 scored while wearing the high school uniform of the West Hill Collegiate Institute Warriors. The opponent in the contest, which was won 150-58, was the R.H. King Academy.

Of his 111 point game Brown said in an interview with RealGM basketball: “It was the last game in my high school career. We didn’t make the playoffs, therefore I wanted to leave high school with a bang and add on to my legacy as a basketball player. It was my day but at the same time I had a plan to score 100 points in one game. It was the game that was called for senior as my last game. We just shoot normally and I got on fire couple times. I had really great quarters, where I scored about 36.

For his effort and the fact that he had committed to an elite college program at the University of Connecticut (UConn), the senior high school star was also featured in SLAM magazine.

Brown was a member of the UConn Huskies team that won the national championship in 2004, which was his sophomore year.

In his senior year at UConn, he averaged 10.7 points, 1.3 assists, and 4.4 rebounds per game.

His season-high came against Villanova where he scored 23 points.

In the regional finals of the 2006 NCAA Tournament, Brown made a last second lay-up to force overtime against George Mason. During his tenure with the Huskies, Brown had a reputation for being a clutch performer.

He finished college career with 1,267 points, the 39th player in UConn history to reach the 1,000-point mark.

Brown was selected with the 40th pick in the 2nd round in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics. On October 11, 2006 in a preseason game against the Portland Trailblazers, Brown totaled eight points and five rebounds during nearly 20 minutes of court time in a 99-89 win. In an Oct. 15 match-up against the Chicago Bulls he would see five minutes of hardwood action in a 110-105 loss. With the Sonics and was waived by the team on October 26, 2006.

Of his short stay in the NBA, Brown related this to RealGM basketball in 2011: “I was young and I made a couple of mistakes as a person, not as a player. As a person, I really wasn’t mature; I haven’t dealt with NBA aspects. I played in the D-League the following year and I was a candidate to win MVP award and it was the same year I was cut from Seattle. As a basketball player, I’m still growing and more importantly as a player off the court and dealing everything out of the court business side. I’m really mature in that aspect now.

Drafted by the Tulsa 66ers eighth overall in the 2006 D-League Draft, Brown appeared in 42 games with the Oilers averaging 18.6 ppg, 5.4 rpg while shooting 46.5 and 43.4 percentage from two poin and three point territories respectively.

He was also drafted in 2006 by Utah Eagles (CBA, 4th round 39 pick). The same season Brown left the 66ers to join the Galatasaray Café Crown in Turkey for the remainder of 2006-2007. In nine games he averaged 6.7 points.

After playing in the NBA summer league in Las Vegas with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007, he returned to Europe where he averaged 9.7 ppg for the Serie A Italian team Tisettanta Cantù.

On November 7, 2008, Brown was selected with the 9th pick in the first round of the 2008 NBA D-League Draft by the Utah Flash.

He began the 2008–09 season with the Dakota Wizards playing only 8 games: while averaging 12.9ppg. He finished the season in the NBDL with the Iowa Energy (D-League): 13 games: 14.6ppg.

The following season was spent jumping from one team to another with time spent with the Marinos de Anzoategui (Venezuela-LPB), Iowa Energy (NBDL) and t Barangay Ginebra Kings (Philippines-PBA).



The 2010-2011 was another basketball gypsy season starting with the Asseco Prokom Gdynia (Poland-PLK), before finishing a home with the Dnipro Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine-Superleague) where in 50 games he averaged 13.4ppg, 5.8rpg, 3.0apg, 1.3spg, FGP: 43.1%, 3PT: 31.4%, FT: 79.2%;. With the VTB League for 10 games he put up averages of 9.8ppg, 5.2rpg, 2.3apg, 1.0spg, FGP: 37.4%, 3PT: 26.3%, FT: 78.9%.



It looked like Brown was returning to home hardwood when he signed with the Oshawa Power (Canada-NBL) but before the regular season he had moved to the Ciclista Olimpico de La Banda (Argentina-LigaA) only to pack his bags leaving Dec.2011.

Since then he has played for Timba Timisoara and BC Mures in the Romanian National League.

Brown has extensive experience playing on the Canadian national team. He first made the team in 2003 when he was on the roster for the FIBA Americas Qualification Tournament.

At the FIBA Tournament he played in 10 games, starting none of them; but he averaged 12.4 ppg, 4.2 rebounds per game (rpg), an assist, and 20 minutes per game (mpg).

Then in 2004 he was on the roster for the Four Nations Tournament. At that tournament he upped his scoring average to 13.8 ppg, while starting all six games and averaging 23.3 mpg, 5.3 rpg, and 1.3 apg. Again, in 2005 Brown was on the Senior Men's National Team where at the FIBA Americas he averaged an impressive 16.8 ppg.

Brown also played for the team during the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship and at the 2010 World Championships he averaged 8.8 ppg and at the 2011 FIBA Americas 6.6 ppg

Insight and research provided by Curtis J. Phillips