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Marcus James Brown (born April 3, 1974) is an American former professional
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player. At tall, he played as a
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. A three time All-EuroLeague selection, Brown has been mentioned as being one of the top U.S. players ever to play abroad. Brown ended his career as a
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with Žalgiris Kaunas in 2011. Brown was the
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's career scoring leader since the year 2000, when he ended his career in October 2011. As far as United States players only are concerned, Brown remains one of league's higher scoring players in the competition since the year 2000, when the league's current organizer (
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) took over the competition.


College career

Brown played
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for the Murray State Racers in the
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. In his senior season, he averaged 26.4 points per game, on 50 percent shooting from the field, and 42 percent shooting from 3-point range. It was announced in October 2009, that Brown was named to the Murray State University Athletic Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame on February 6, 2010. That same night, his No. 5 jersey was retired by Murray State, and is hanging in the rafters at the
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.


Professional career

Brown was selected with the 19 th pick of the 2nd round, in the
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, by the
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club the
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. He played the 1996–97 NBA season with the Trail Blazers, where he averaged 4 points per game, in 9 minutes per game, while shooting 41 percent from 3 point range, in his rookie season. He then signed with the
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for the 1997–98 season, but he did not play in any regular season games for them. After being released by the Grizzlies, during the 1997–98 NBA season, he signed with the
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club ÉB Pau-Orthez, for the remainder of the 1997–98 season. He averaged 20.5 points per game in the French League with Pau-Orthez, and led them to the 1998 French League championship. Unfortunately, Brown tore the ACL in his knee in the final game of the French playoffs. Brown took off the entire 1998–99 season to rehab his knee injury. He then played in the NBA again, with the
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, at the start of the 1999–00 season. The Pistons released him in 1999, after he played with the club in 6 regular season games. He then returned to the French League, where he signed with CSP Limoges for the remainder of the 1999–00 season. With Limoges, he won the French League championship, the French Cup title, and the
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championship. He was named the French League Foreign Player's MVP. After having a lot of success in the French League for 2 seasons, he then moved up to the higher level Italian League, where he signed with the Italian
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club Benetton Treviso for the 2000–01 season. With Benetton he played in the EuroLeague for the first time, and he averaged 19.9 points per game that season in the EuroLeague. After that season, he signed with one of the biggest clubs in the EuroLeague, the
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club
Efes Pilsen Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş.'' (lit. Anadolu Efes Brewery and Malt Industries)'' produces and markets beer and malt and non-alcoholic beverages in Turkey, the United States, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), E ...
. Over the next two seasons with Efes, Brown was very successful in Turkey, as he won the
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, and 2
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national championships. He was also named to the 2002–03 season's All-EuroLeague Second Team, after he averaged 19.6 points per game. Brown then moved to the
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powerhouse
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, where he signed a contract that made him the highest paid American basketball player in Europe at that time. Over the next two seasons with CSKA, he was quite successful in Russia, as he won the Russian Cup, 2 Russian National Championships, and the Russian Super League A Player of the Year award in 2004. He was also named to the 2003–04 season's All-EuroLeague First Team and to the 2004–05 season's All-EuroLeague Second Team, while he was a member of CSKA. Brown then spent the next two seasons playing with Unicaja Málaga of the
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, where over those 2 years he would play alongside fellow ex-
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players
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, Pepe Sánchez,
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, and
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. He helped to lead Unicaja Málaga to its first ever Spanish League national championship, during the 2005–06 season. After spending two seasons with Málaga, Brown joined the Lithuanian League club Žalgiris Kaunas. With Zalgiris, in the 2007–08 season, Brown won the Lithuanian League national championship, the Lithuanian Cup title, and the
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championship, all in the same season. He was also named the MVP of the Lithuanian League playoff finals that season. On October 19, 2008, Brown was loaned from ( Žalgiris) and signed with the
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club
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of the Israeli League, for the 2008–09 season, and with them he won yet another national domestic championship, in May 2009. Brown rejoined ( Žalgiris) in 2009, and helped the team win the BBL Cup. In his final season, Brown helped Žalgiris win the triple crown in Lithuania, winning the LKF Cup, LKL championship and the BBL. On November 25, 2009, Brown became one of four players who had managed to make 300 or more three point shots in the EuroLeague at that time, counting only records since the year 2000.


Post-career honors

On October 17, 2011, his former team, Žalgiris Kaunas, held a ceremony to honor Brown during the halftime of the opening night of the 2011–12 season, in the club's new 15,552-seat arena in
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. In January 2013, the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame announced that Brown would be honored as a member of the class of 2013 inductees which included Dallas Cowboy owner
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.


Player profile

Brown, who during his playing career, was a
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, scored more points than any other U.S. player in the
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, counting only EuroLeague records since the 2000–01 season, with 2,739 career points scored. He was also the league's leading scorer overall, since the year 2000, at the time that he retired from the league, in 2011. A high-quality player, who was always able to make a big impact in top-level European teams, Brown played at the
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in
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
,
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
, and
2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
. He also earned
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selections in the 2002–03, 2003–04, and 2004–05 seasons. He was selected to the All-EuroLeague Second Team for the 2002–03 season, when he played for
Efes Pilsen Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş.'' (lit. Anadolu Efes Brewery and Malt Industries)'' produces and markets beer and malt and non-alcoholic beverages in Turkey, the United States, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), E ...
, and he was selected to the All-EuroLeague First Team for the 2003–04 season, and to the Second Team for the 2004–05 season, when he played for
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. He was nominated for the 2008
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list, although he was not selected to the final list. He also nominated for the EuroLeague 2000–10 All-Decade Team, however he was not selected to the final list.


Personal achievements and awards

* 1999–00 French League Foreign Player's MVP ( CSP Limoges) * 2001–02 EuroLeague Round 19 MVP (
Efes Pilsen Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş.'' (lit. Anadolu Efes Brewery and Malt Industries)'' produces and markets beer and malt and non-alcoholic beverages in Turkey, the United States, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), E ...
) * 2002–03 All-EuroLeague Second Team (Efes Pilsen) * 2002–03 EuroLeague Round 17 MVP (Efes Pilsen) * 2003–04 All-EuroLeague First Team (
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) * 2003–04 Russian Super League A Player of the Year * 2004–05 EuroLeague April MVP (CSKA Moscow) * 2004–05 All-EuroLeague Second Team (CSKA Moscow) * 2007–08 EuroLeague December MVP ( Žalgiris) * 2007–08 Lithuanian League Finals MVP (Žalgiris) * 2009–10
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Finals MVP (Žalgiris)


Club titles won

* 1997–98
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( ÉB Pau-Orthez) * 1999–00
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( CSP Limoges) * 1999–00 French League (CSP Limoges) * 1999–00 French Cup (CSP Limoges) * 2001–02
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(
Efes Pilsen Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş.'' (lit. Anadolu Efes Brewery and Malt Industries)'' produces and markets beer and malt and non-alcoholic beverages in Turkey, the United States, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), E ...
) * 2001–02
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(Efes Pilsen) * 2003–04 Russian League (
CSKA Moscow CSKA Moscow () is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet Union, Soviet era, it was the central part of the Armed Forces (sports ...
) * 2004–05 Russian League (CSKA Moscow) * 2004–05 Russian Cup (CSKA Moscow) * 2005–06 Spanish League (
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) * 2007–08 Lithuanian Cup ( Žalgiris) * 2007–08
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(Žalgiris) * 2007–08 Lithuanian League (Žalgiris) * 2008–09 Israeli League (
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) * 2009–10 Baltic Cup ( Žalgiris) * 2009–10
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(Žalgiris) * 2010–11 Lithuanian Cup ( Žalgiris) * 2010–11
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(Žalgiris) * 2010–11 Lithuanian League (Žalgiris)


Career statistics


EuroLeague

, - , style="text-align:left;", 2000–01 , style="text-align:left;", Benetton , 10 , , 8 , , 35.3 , , .496 , , .424 , , .875 , , 3.1 , , 2.8 , , 2.0 , , .0 , , 20.3 , , 21.2 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2001–02 , style="text-align:left;",
Efes Pilsen Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş.'' (lit. Anadolu Efes Brewery and Malt Industries)'' produces and markets beer and malt and non-alcoholic beverages in Turkey, the United States, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), E ...
, 19 , , 17 , , 34.9 , , .453 , , .423 , , .880 , , 2.9 , , 3.4 , , 1.8 , , .1 , , 17.5 , , 18.0 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2002–03 , style="text-align:left;", Efes Pilsen , 19 , , 17 , , 35.4 , , .513 , , .442 , , .843 , , 2.6 , , 2.6 , , 1.3 , , .1 , , 19.6 , , 21.4 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2003–04 , style="text-align:left;", CSKA , 21 , , 21 , , 34.3 , , .510 , , .382 , , .880 , , 2.3 , , 4.2 , , 1.4 , , .1 , , 18.7 , , 21.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2004–05 , style="text-align:left;", CSKA , 24 , , 24 , , 32.4 , , .428 , , .330 , , .804 , , 2.9 , , 3.1 , , 1.3 , , .0 , , 16.0 , , 16.8 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2005–06 , style="text-align:left;", Unicaja , 20 , , 20 , , 31.9 , , .434 , , .368 , , .845 , , 2.7 , , 2.5 , , .7 , , .3 , , 15.3 , , 14.7 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2006–07 , style="text-align:left;", Unicaja , 8 , , 2 , , 19.2 , , .354 , , .350 , , .938 , , 1.5 , , 1.3 , , .5 , , .0 , , 7.0 , , 4.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2007–08 , style="text-align:left;", Žalgiris , 20 , , 20 , , 29.9 , , .474 , , .418 , , .906 , , 2.4 , , 1.4 , , .6 , , .2 , , 14.4 , , 12.8 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2008–09 , style="text-align:left;", Maccabi , 16 , , 15 , , 29.7 , , .478 , , .417 , , .782 , , 2.3 , , 2.2 , , .6 , , .0 , , 12.3 , , 12.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2009–10 , style="text-align:left;", Žalgiris , 16 , , 16 , , 25.4 , , .393 , , .397 , , .936 , , 2.0 , , 1.7 , , .5 , , .1 , , 11.6 , , 10.2 , - , style="text-align:left;",
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, style="text-align:left;", Žalgiris , 6 , , 3 , , 16.3 , , .235 , , .308 , , 1.000 , , 1.2 , , .8 , , .2 , , .2 , , 3.7 , , -.5 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 179 , , 163 , , 31.0 , , .458 , , .395 , , .857 , , 2.5 , , 2.6 , , 1.0 , , .1 , , 15.3 , , 15.4


NBA

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References and notes

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External links

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EuroLeague Player Profile
@ Euroleague.net
Spanish League Player Profile
@ ACB.com
Article on Brown
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