Chad Brown (basketball)

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Chad Brown
No. 27Apollon Patras
Position Center
League Greek Basket League
Personal information
Born (1996-09-06) September 6, 1996 (age 27)
Deltona, Florida
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight245 lb (111 kg)
Career information
High school Deltona
(Deltona, Florida)
College UCF (2015–2019)
NBA draft 2019: undrafted
Playing career2019–present
Career history
2019–2020 Texas Legends
2020–2021 Charilaos Trikoupis
2021 Gießen 46ers
2021 Guelph Nighthawks
2021–2022 Peristeri
2022 Merkezefendi
2022–2023 Hapoel Gilboa Galil
2023 Uralmash Yekaterinburg
2023–present Apollon Patras
Career highlights and awards

Chad Brown (born September 6, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for Apollon Patras of the Greek Basket League. He played college basketball for the UCF Knights.

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Early life and high school career

Brown attended Deltona High School at Deltona, Florida. A four star prospect by Scout.com, Brown averaged 14.7 points, 15 rebounds and 9.4 blocks per game as a senior.

College career

Brown played for UCF Knights from 2015 [1] to 2019. As a junior, he averaged 5.2 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, shooting 51 percent from the field, while playing along with Tacko Fall. The same season, he led the team in blocks, averaging 1.1 blocks per game. During his senior season, he averaged 4.5 points, 5 rebounds, and 1 block per game. [2]

Professional career

After going undrafted in the 2019 NBA draft, Brown joined the Dallas Mavericks, on October 17, 2019, but was waived after two days. [3] On October 26, 2020, he was acquired by the Texas Legends. [4] In 42 games, he averaged 5.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 0.9 blocks per game.

On August 6, 2020, he joined Charilaos Trikoupis of the Greek Basket League. [5] In 10 games with the Greek club, he averaged 12.5 points and 8.9 rebounds per contest. After his impressive tenure with Trikoupis, Brown was bought out by Gießen 46ers of the Basketball Bundesliga. In 12 games with the German club, he averaged 4.3 points and 3.1 rebounds per contest. Brown then finished the season off with the Guelph Nighthawks of the Canadian Elite Basketball League, averaging 13.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, and 2.8 blocks per game.

On July 27, 2021, Brown signed with Peristeri of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. [6] In 24 league games, he averaged 5.6 points, 7.1 rebounds and 0.9 blocks, playing around 18 minutes per contest.

On July 4, 2022, he has signed with Merkezefendi Belediyesi Denizli Basket of the Basketbol Süper Ligi. [7]

On November 12, 2022, he signed with Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. [8]

In July 2023 he signed with Russian club Uralmash Yekaterinburg of the VTB United League. [9] On October 18, 2023, he moved back to Greece for Apollon Patras. [10]

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References

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