Denham Washington Brown (born January 6, 1983) is a Canadian former professional

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player.

High school

Brown attended

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in Toronto, and led the school's AAA basketball team to the Ontario provincial championship in 2000. In his junior year, he averaged 30 points per game (ppg). However, he transferred to

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for his senior season after Bathurst Heights closed. In 2002, his senior year, Brown was highly celebrated in the media when he scored 111 points in a basketball game against

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. After Brown scored 111 points in a game he was featured in ''SLAM'' magazine; not only because of the 111 points, but also because he had committed to an elite college program at the

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(UConn).

College

Brown was a sophomore at

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when the Huskies won the 2004 national championship. In his senior year at UConn (2005–06 season), he averaged 10.7 points, 1.3 assists, and 4.4 rebounds per game. In November the Huskies beat

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to win the

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on a last-second jumper by Brown. His season-high came during a game against Villanova in which he scored 23 points. In the regional finals of the 2006 NCAA tournament, Brown made a last-second lay-up to force overtime against

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, but missed a potential game-winning three pointer at the buzzer resulting in an 86–84 loss. During his tenure with the Huskies, Brown had a reputation for being a clutch performer, as well as possessing an above average handle for a wing player.

NBA

Brown was selected with the 40th pick in the 2nd round in the

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by the

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. After playing two preseason games with totals of eight points and five rebounds with the Sonics, he was waived by the team on October 26, 2006. However, the

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subsequently used the eighth overall pick in the 2006

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Draft on Brown. In his first preseason game with the SuperSonics, Brown scored 8 points in a winning effort against the

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. After that game Brown saw little action for the SuperSonics in the preseason appearing in just one more game. He was playing well in the D-League averaging close to 19 ppg for the

. On November 7, 2008, Brown was selected with the 9th pick in the first round of the

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by the

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. He began the 2008–09 season with the

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. On December 19, 2008, Brown was waived by the Wizards due to injury. On March 4, 2009, Brown signed with the D-League's

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Overseas

Brown left the Tulsa 66ers later in the 2006–07 season, and played in a pro league in

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for

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. For the 2007–08 season, he signed with the

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Italian team Tisettanta Cantù. Brown took his talents to

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for three weeks in June 2010, as one of a series of import players for the

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. On August 25, 2010, Polish league champion for two straight years,

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, added Brown to their roster.

National team

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

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Americas Qualification Tournament. At the FIBA Tournament he played in ten games, starting none of them; but he averaged 12.4 ppg, 4.2 rebounds per game (rpg), 1.0 assist per game (apg) and 20 minutes per game (mpg). 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. He also played with the team in 2005, but did not play in 2006, as he was attempting to play in NBA. Brown played for the team during the

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NBL Canada

On October 11, 2011, it was announced that Brown had signed a deal with the

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. Not only does this give him the opportunity to play professionally in his native Canada, but it also marks his return to the

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, of which Oshawa is a part.Denham Brown joins Oshawa NBL team
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Honours

* 2004 NCAA Champion

References

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