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Larry Brown

1940 - Today

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Lawrence Harvey Brown (born September 14, 1940) is an American basketball coach and former player who last served as an assistant coach for the Memphis Tigers. Brown is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship (Kansas Jayhawks, 1988) and an NBA title (Detroit Pistons, 2004). He has a 1,275–965 lifetime professional coaching record in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is the only coach in NBA history to lead eight teams (differing franchises) to the playoffs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry Brown has received more than 70,128 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Larry Brown is the 99th most popular basketball player (down from 91st in 2019), the 6,052nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,670th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Basketball Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Larry Brown ranks 99 out of 1,757Before him are Manu Ginóbili, Reggie Miller, Dominique Wilkins, Aleksandar Petrović, Jerry Sloan, and Jerry Lucas. After him are Mike D'Antoni, Heino Kruus, Joe Bryant, Jonas Kazlauskas, Dragan Šakota, and Šarūnas Marčiulionis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Larry Brown ranks 330Before him are Yossi Sarid, Andres Tarand, Anzor Kavazashvili, Jerry Lucas, Ignacio Milam Tang, and Uwe Timm. After him are Mame Madior Boye, Wolf Kahler, Norman Spinrad, Claude Dagens, Vladimir Korenev, and Souleymane Cissé.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Brown ranks 6,052 out of 20,380Before him are Justin Gatlin (1982), Roger McGuinn (1942), Jack Northrop (1895), Nicky Hayden (1981), Anna Harrison (1775), and David A. Huffman (1925). After him are Delia Owens (1949), Mike Todd (1909), Carol Channing (1921), Wynton Kelly (1931), Brian Greene (1963), and Shannon Elizabeth (1973).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Larry Brown ranks 55Before him are Wes Unseld (1946), Nate Archibald (1948), Bob McAdoo (1951), Reggie Miller (1965), Jerry Sloan (1942), and Jerry Lucas (1940). After him are Mike D'Antoni (1951), Joe Bryant (1954), Spencer Haywood (1949), Mike Krzyzewski (1947), Isaiah Thomas (1989), and Bill Sharman (1926).