Elton Brown (born September 15, 1983) is an American former professional
basketball
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player who last played for
SLUC Nancy Basket
Stade Lorrain Université Club Nancy Basket, commonly referred to as SLUC Nancy Basket, is a French professional basketball club based in Nancy. The club currently competes in the LNB Pro A, the top league in France, and holds two league titles. S ...
of the
LNB Pro A
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. He is a 6'9" (2.06 m)
center
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from
Newport News, Virginia
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.
College career
Brown played
college basketball
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at the
University of Virginia
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. Majoring in Anthropology he ranked 20th in all-time scoring, and Top 10 in rebounding. He was a 3-year starter and first team All-Rookie. During his junior and senior years, he was awarded the All-ACC Honorable Mention with an average of 14.8 points and 8 rebounds as a junior and 12 points and 8 rebounds as a senior.
Professional career
Brown began his pro career in the
Greek League with
Makedonikos Kozani in the 2005–06 season, where he led the Greek League in rebounding and was the only player in the league to average a double-double for the season. He then spent the 2006–07 season playing in the
NBA Development League
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with the
Colorado 14ers
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. Brown participated in the 2nd annual NBA Development League All-Star Game, leading the Red Team with 20 points and 10 rebounds in a losing effort.
Brown Also led the NBA Development League in rebounding with 12.7 and second in scoring with an 18.4 average per game while being the first overall
pick in the NBA Development Draft for the Colorado 14ers.
Brown participated in the
Los Angeles Lakers
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' training camp prior to the 2007–08
NBA
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season. He also played on the
Denver Nuggets
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' Summer League team that participated in the 2008
Las Vegas Summer League, where he averaged 13.3 points per game and 10 rebounds per game over 5 games.
During the season of 2007–08 he joined
Hapoel Holon
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from Israel, with whom he won the
Israeli League Championship.
On December 2, 2008, Brown signed with the
Euroleague team of
Maccabi Tel Aviv
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.
On February 6, 2009, Brown signed with the German BBL team
Brose Baskets
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Bamberg. He played a big role in the remaining season of Bamberg, but could not avoid his team's loss in the semifinal series against Oldenburg. In August 2009, he re-signed with Bamberg for one more season. In his second season with the club, he won the
German Bundesliga
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and German Cup.
For the 2010–11 season he signed with
Barak Netanya
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History Eli ...
of Israel. Brown was selected All Euro-challenge Third team while playing with Netanya.
Season 2011–12 he spent in Turkey with
Trabzonspor
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. In 23 games of the
Turkish Basketball League
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he averaged 18 points and 12 rebounds per game.
Brown was selected to the TBL All-Star game.
In July 2012 he signed a one-year contract with the Serbian team where he won the Serbian cup championship
Crvena zvezda
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.
In October 2013, he signed with
Paris-Levallois Basket
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The club was established in 200 ...
of the
LNB Pro A
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for the 2013–14 season. Brown won sixth man of the year in the LNB
On January 4, 2015, he signed with
BCM Gravelines
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of the LNB Pro A. On February 2, 2015, he parted ways with Gravelines. On March 10, he signed with
Indios de Mayagüez
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of Puerto Rico.
Brown was the only player to average a double-double with a 13.3 points and 11.8 rebounds per game.
On November 19, 2015, he signed with the French club
STB Le Havre
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for the rest of the 2015–16 season.
On January 12, 2017, he signed with French club
SLUC Nancy Basket
Stade Lorrain Université Club Nancy Basket, commonly referred to as SLUC Nancy Basket, is a French professional basketball club based in Nancy. The club currently competes in the LNB Pro A, the top league in France, and holds two league titles. S ...
for the rest of the
2016–17 Pro A season
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A total of 330 games were played ...
.
ELTON BROWN CLOT LE ROSTER 2016/2017 !
References
External links
Elton Brown
at eurobasket.com
Elton Brown
at euroleague.com
at fiba.com
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1983 births
Living people
ABA League players
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Greece
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Serbia
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American men's basketball players
Barak Netanya B.C. players
Basketball players from Virginia
BCM Gravelines players
Brose Bamberg players
Capitanes de Arecibo players
Centers (basketball)
Colorado 14ers players
Columbus Riverdragons players
Florida Flame players
Hapoel Holon players
Israeli Basketball Premier League players
KK Crvena zvezda players
Liga ACB players
Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. players
Makedonikos B.C. players
Menorca Bàsquet players
Metropolitans 92 players
SLUC Nancy Basket players
Sportspeople from Newport News, Virginia
STB Le Havre players
Trabzonspor B.K. players
Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball players