Denham Brown
| Position | Shooting guard/Small forward |
|---|---|
| League | Lega Basket |
| Height | ft in ( m) |
| Weight | lb ( kg) |
| Team | Tisettanta Cantù (2007–) |
| Nationality | Canada |
| Born | January 6 1983  Toronto, Ontario |
| High school | West Hill Collegiate Institute |
| College | UConn |
| Draft | 2nd round, 40th overall, 2006 Seattle SuperSonics |
| Pro career | 2006–present |
| Former teams | Tulsa 66ers (2006–2007) Galatasaray Café Crown (2007) |
Denham W. Brown (born January 6, 1983 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian former college basketball player for the UConn Huskies. He was selected in the second round (40th overall) of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics.
High school
Brown attended Bathurst Heights Secondary School in Toronto. However, he transferred to West Hill Collegiate for his senior season after Bathurst closed. In his senior year, Brown was highly celebrated in the media when he scored 111 points in a high school basketball game against R. H. King Academy. When Denham 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 UConn.
College
In his senior year at UConn, he averaged 10.7 points, 1.3 assists, and 4.4 rebounds per game. His season-high came against Villanova where he scored 23 points.
In the regional finals of the NCAA Tournament, Denham Brown made a last-second lay-up to force overtime against George Mason. While in college, Denham's fans began calling him "The Darkness" because of his skin tone, in reference to Charlie Murphy of the Chappelle Show. Denham Brown was also a big time clutch performer, coming through in crunch time.
NBA
Brown was selected with the 40th pick in the 2nd round in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics. 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.[1] However, the Tulsa 66ers subsequently used the eighth overall pick in the 2006 D-League Draft on Brown.
In his first preseason game with the Supersonics, Brown scored 8 points in a winning effort against the Trail Blazers. After that game Brown saw little action for the Supersonics in the preseason appearing in just one game. He was playing extremely well in the D-League averaging close to 19 ppg for the Tulsa 66ers.
Overseas
Denham Brown left the Tulsa 66ers of the NBDL later in the 2006/07 season, and played in a pro league in Turkey for Galatasaray Café Crown. For the 2007/08 season, he has signed with the Serie A Italian team Tisettanta Cantù.[2]
National Team
Brown has extensive experience playing on the Canadian national men's basketball team. He first made the team in 2003 when he was on the roster for the FIBA Americas Qualification Tournament. At the FIBA Tournament he played in ten games, starting none of them; but he averaged 12.4 points per game (ppg), 4.2 rebounds per game (rpg), an assist, and 20 minutes per game (mpg). Then 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. Again, in 2005 Brown was on the Senior Men's National Team. Unfortunately for Team Canada Basketball Denham spent his time making the NBA this summer and did not participate on the 2006 Canadian Senior Men's National Team.
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| Connecticut Huskies Basketball 2003-2004 NCAA Champions |
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| 3 Charlie
Villanueva | 4 Ben Gordon | 5 Marcus Williams | 11 Hilton
Armstrong | 12 Taliek Brown | 21 Josh Boone | 30
Shamon Tooles | 31 Rashad Anderson | 33 Denham Brown | 50 Emeka Okafor Coach Jim Calhoun |
| 2006 NBA Draft |
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| First Round Andrea Bargnani • LaMarcus Aldridge • Adam Morrison • Tyrus Thomas • Shelden Williams • Brandon Roy • Randy Foye • Rudy Gay • Patrick O'Bryant • Mouhamed Sene • J. J. Redick • Hilton Armstrong • Thabo Sefolosha • Ronnie Brewer • Cedric Simmons • Rodney Carney • Shawne Williams • Oleksiy Pecherov • Quincy Douby • Renaldo Balkman • Rajon Rondo • Marcus Williams • Josh Boone • Kyle Lowry • Shannon Brown • Jordan Farmar • Sergio Rodríguez • Maurice Ager • Mardy Collins • Joel Freeland |
| Second Round James White • Steve Novak • Solomon Jones • Paul Davis • P.J. Tucker • Craig Smith • Bobby Jones • Kosta Perovic • David Noel • Denham Brown • James Augustine • Daniel Gibson • Marcus Vinicius • Lior Eliyahu • Alexander Johnson • Dee Brown • Paul Millsap • Vladimir Veremeenko • Leon Powe • Ryan Hollins • Cheikh Samb • Guillermo Diaz • Yotam Halperin • Hassan Adams • Ejike Ugboaja • Edin Bavcic • Loukas Mavrokefalidis • J. R. Pinnock • Damir Markota • Will Blalock |
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