2017 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award (NBA); 2022 National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame (as a broadcaster); 2005 Inductee into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame; 2006 Inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame; 1978 & 2004 NBA Coach of the Year; 1975 ABA Champions (Kentucky Colonels); Brown coached future Hall of Famer Artis Gilmore, who had 28 points and 31 rebounds in the title game; Over his coaching career, Brown was head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies, New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks, and Kentucky Colonels (ABA) and Assistant Coach for the Milwaukee Bucks who featured future Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson but lost in 7 games in the 1974 NBA Championship to the Boston Celtics; 40+ years as an NBA broadcaster on a variety of networks including ABC, ESPN, TNT & CBS ; played college basketball for Niagara and professionally for the Rochester Colonels