Fast Facts
Coach Brown ranks ninth in NBA history with 831 victories and fourth amongst active coaches. He is one victory shy of tying Cotton Fitzsimmons (832) for eighth place.

He is one of just four coaches to have won more than 1,000 games (1,060) when combining NBA and ABA records, joining Lenny Wilkens (1,268), Pat Riley (1,085) and Don Nelson (1,036).

Brown's longest tenure with an NBA team is with the Sixers, and he is just the fourth Sixers coach to record 200 or more wins.

His resume includes six different NBA teams (Denver, New Jersey, San Antonio, L.A. Clippers, Indiana, Philadelphia) where he is a combined 831-651; two collegiate teams (UCLA, University of Kansas) where he compiled a 177-61 and the 1988 National championship; and two ABA teams (Carolina, Denver) where he finished 229-107.

Brown was a three-time ABA coach of the year in 1973, 1975 and 1976, and won his first NBA Coach of the Year award in 2001.

His NBA and ABA teams have finished first in their divisions nine times.

The Sixers 2000-01 team was the first of Brown's teams to advance to the NBA Finals.

He tied his best winning percentage as an NBA head coach with a 56-26 (.683) record in 2000-01, having previously guided the San Antonio Spurs to the same mark in 1989-90.

Brown is the only U.S. male to have won an Olympic gold medal as a player (1964) and a coach (2000).

	“	This is the best coaching job he's ever done. When you consider the personnel and the injuries they've had, he's never done a better job. That's not bull. They do the fundamental things over 48 minutes for longer than any other team. ”
		— Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich on Coach Brown's 2000-01 Season and IBM Coach of the Year Honors

2000-01 IBM Coach of the Year
Larry Brown was named the winner of the Red Auerbach Trophy as the IBM NBA Coach of the Year for the 2000-01 season. Brown, winning the award for the first time in his 18-year NBA coaching career, guided the 76ers to 56 victories, the best in the Eastern Conference and most for the franchise since 1985. He also led Philadelphia to its first Atlantic Division title since 1990 as the Sixers tied the Los Angeles Lakers for the second-best record in the NBA. Coach Brown tied his best winning percentage as an NBA head coach with last season's 56-26 (.683) record, having previously guided the San Antonio Spurs to the same mark in 1989-90. Brown joined Dolph Schayes, who earned the honor for the 1965-66 season, as the only Sixers coaches in history to win the award.

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Brown directs his troops. 56k | 300k