Taylor Brown (basketball)

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Taylor Brown
Personal information
Born (1989-08-04) August 4, 1989 (age 35)
Atlanta, Georgia
NationalityAmerican
Listed height2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Listed weight95 kg (209 lb)
Career information
High school Dunwoody (Dunwoody, Georgia)
College Bradley (2008–2012)
NBA draft 2012: undrafted
Position Power forward
Career history
2013–2014 KFUM Nässjö
2014 Basic-Fit Brussels
2014–2015 Darüşşafaka S.K.
2015–2016 Halcones de Ciudad Obregón
2015–2016 Wilki Morskie Szczecin
2017 Lietuvos rytas Vilnius
2017Halcones de Ciudad Obregón
2017–2018 Al-Ahli Jeddah
2018Atlas Ferzol
2019 Al Wahda

Taylor Darnell Brown (born August 4, 1989) is an American professional basketball player who plays as power forward. [1]

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Professional career

On February 25, 2017, Brown moved to Lietuvos rytas Vilnius by signing a 1+1 deal with Rytas paying buyout to the Polish team. [2] [3] On May 24, 2017, it was reported that Brown along with other American-born teammates Corey Fisher and Clevin Hannah were partying and consuming alcohol in Vilnius nightclubs right after losing the Game 3 of the LKL Playoffs on May 20. [4] [5] All of them were denying the fact but the incontestable pictures were published, which shattered all the doubts. [6] The semi-final game was crucial as following it the series moved to Panevėžys, where Rytas lost the game and the series 1–3, resulting in second shocking fiasco during the same season for the club. [7] On the same May 24, all three players were suspended from the team. [8] [9] On May 25, head coach Rimas Kurtinaitis said that it was not the first time when all three players were behaving unprofessionally and that they were ignoring previous warnings. [10] Some witnesses noted that Taylor Brown previously was also consuming drugs. [11] Not surprisingly, the team has shown no interest in keeping Brown for his second season and the contract was terminated by noting that character and devotion are essential properties for the players. [12]

Brown joined Liga ACB side Real Betis Energía Plus on August 25, 2017. [13] However, the deal was voided five days later after a failed physical. [14]

Personal life

He is the son of a former EuroLeague champion and NBA player Rickey Brown. [15]

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The history of BC Rytas begins from the founding of the club with a name BC Statyba in 1963 in Lithuania's capital city Vilnius. The BC Statyba was renamed to BC Statyba-Lietuvos rytas in 1997 when Gedvydas Vainauskas, the owner of the daily newspaper Lietuvos rytas, had purchased the club, and in 1998 the old name Statyba was removed completely when the club was renamed to BC Lietuvos rytas. The final name change of the club to BC Rytas occurred in 2018 when its owners has changed and Gedvydas Vainauskas left the club, therefore the new owners of the club sought to remove the affiliation of the club with the newspaper Lietuvos rytas, however the club was domestically and internationally well known as Rytas, thus its name remained similar.

References

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  2. ↑ ""Lietuvos rytą" sustiprino galingas amerikietis Tayloras Brownas". lrytas.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Pastiprinimas: "Lietuvos rytas" pasirašė sutartį su Tayloru Brownu". BasketNews.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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  5. ↑ ""Lietuvos ryto" sirgalių žinutė lėbavusiems legionieriams: "Dinkite velniop iš mūsų komandos"". BasketNews.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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  11. ↑ "Kritikuojami "Lietuvos ryto" legionieriai atkirto R.Kurtinaičiui, amerikietis spruko nuo jį šokiravusių sirgalių". 24sek.lt/24sek. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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  13. ↑ "El Real Betis Energía Plus cierra el fichaje por un año del ala-pívot Taylor Brown" (in Spanish). Real Betis Energía Plus. 25 August 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  14. ↑ "El Real Betis Energía Plus rescinde la vinculación con el estadounidense Taylor Brown" (in Spanish). Real Betis Energía Plus. August 30, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
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