Illinois
Ex-Illini star Brown to coach at NAIA’s Roosevelt
CHICAGO — Former Illinois star and NBA participant Dee Brown is the brand new coach at Roosevelt College in Chicago, the NAIA faculty introduced Monday.
The 37-year-old was a McDonald’s All-American and Illinois Mr. Basketball when he performed for Proviso East close to Chicago in Maywood.
He went on to steer Illinois to Large Ten regular-season titles in 2004 and 2005 and a run to the 2005 NCAA championship sport, the place Illinois misplaced to North Carolina.
Brown performed professionally for 9 seasons, together with two NBA seasons for Utah, Washington and Phoenix.
Brown has been an assistant on the College of Illinois Chicago since 2017. He additionally labored as director of participant improvement and alumni relations for the Illinois males’s basketball staff underneath former coach John Groce and coached AAU ball.