1. Marcus James Brown was born on April 3,1974 and is an American former professional basketball player.
17 Facts About Marcus Brown
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Marcus Brown ended his career as a player-coach with Zalgiris Kaunas in 2011.
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Marcus Brown was the EuroLeague's career scoring leader since the year 2000, when he ended his career in October 2011.
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Marcus Brown played college basketball for the Murray State Racers in the Ohio Valley Conference.
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Marcus Brown was inducted into the Hall of Fame on February 6,2010.
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Marcus Brown was selected with the 19 th pick of the 2nd round, in the 1996 NBA draft, by the NBA club the Portland Trail Blazers.
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Marcus Brown averaged 20.5 points per game in the French League with Pau-Orthez, and led them to the 1998 French League championship.
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Unfortunately, Marcus Brown tore the ACL in his knee in the final game of the French playoffs.
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Marcus Brown was named the French League Foreign Player's MVP.
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Marcus Brown then moved to the Russian Super League powerhouse CSKA Moscow, where he signed a contract that made him the highest paid American basketball player in Europe at that time.
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Marcus Brown then spent the next two seasons playing with Unicaja Malaga of the Spanish ACB League, where over those 2 years he would play alongside fellow ex-NBA players Daniel Santiago, Pepe Sanchez, Jorge Garbajosa, and Jiri Welsch.
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Marcus Brown was named the MVP of the Lithuanian League playoff finals that season.
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Marcus Brown rejoined in 2009, and helped the team win the BBL Cup.
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On November 25,2009, Marcus 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.
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In January 2013, the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame announced that Marcus Brown would be honored as a member of the class of 2013 inductees which included Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones.
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Marcus Brown was the league's leading scorer overall, since the year 2000, at the time that he retired from the league, in 2011.
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Marcus Brown was nominated for the 2008 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors list, although he was not selected to the final list.