Brown receives coaching award

Former Hawks coach Hubie Brown was named co-recipient of the 2017 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Basketball Coaches Association. Brown was honored along with long-time Warriors coach Al Attles, the NBCA announced Sunday.

“I am tremendously honored,” Brown said in a statement. “This is also a tremendous honor because of my relationship with Chuck Daly in the coaching fraternity as assistant coaches at Duke University and then into the ranks of professional basketball. This award is a major highlight in my coaching career.”

The award honors the memory of Daly, a Hall of Famer who “over an outstanding NBA coaching career set a standard for integrity, competitive excellence and tireless promotion of NBA basketball.”

Brown coached the Hawks from 1976-81 and was named NBA coach of the year in 1978. He won the award again 26 years later with the Grizzlies.

Brown was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 with the Curt Gowdy Award, given annually to a broadcaster for outstanding contributions to basketball. He was inducted in the Hall of Fame as a contributor in 2005. Brown was also inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 2006.

Brown has a combined ABA/NBA record of 528-589.

Members of the NBCA selection committee include Bernie Bickerstaff, Billy Cunningham, Joe Dumars, Phil Jackson, Gregg Popovich, Pat Riley, Donnie Walsh and Lenny Wilkens. Prior recipients are K.C. Jones and Jerry Sloan (2016), Dick Motta (2015), Bickerstaff (2014), Bill Fitch (2013), Riley (2012), former Hawks coach Lenny Wilkens (2011), Tex Winter and Jack Ramsay (2010) and Tommy Heinsohn (2009).