Latest / Bleacher Report / Hubie Brown Ends His Final Broadcast With an Emotional Message

Transcript

Hubie Brown Ends His Final Broadcast With an Emotional Message · Bleacher Report

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Great one.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: The universal love and respect you got more?
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Oh hey man, yeah, great good, what a performance. Thanks
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: and James Williams of the how are you doing, James?
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Back the ball, fans everywhere congratulating on an amazing career. Well,
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: thank you, privilege and my honor to present to you.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: But Kevin, wait a second, Kevin Lockery and I used
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: to lead the league in technicals every year and you're
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: actually giving me a present representing the reps. No, thank
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: you very much. Just go back to the old timers
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: that used to be working a two man crew. Yes,
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: he was a heck of a lot better than you're
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: getting here right now. No, but thank you. Fellows. Really
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: just a lucky your career is that you hope? Stay
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: healthy about it. I've got to get John, thank you, James,
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah, how you doing? Thank you? Thank you
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: very much.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: You had some good battles with the officials in your game.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: There's so many people who worked on today's telecast, for
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: all of us, it's a labor of love and all
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: we wanted to do, see I can't look at you
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: right now is to adequately pay tribute to you.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: Our producer Ian Gruka and the staff. They did an
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: amazing job because it meant so much to them to
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: be a part of your final telecast, and what we
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: did comes up woefully short compared to what you have
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: given us. And we've all felt we've had this pliberate
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: privilege and honor to work with you, and especially those
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: of us who've been able to sit next to you
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: like those play by play voices. Our only hope today
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: you'll be was to make you understand how much you
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: mean to us and how much we love you. And
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: I know it's difficult to try and put into words
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: what you're feeling right now, but for all the basketball
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: fans who learn from you and who loved you and
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: have watched you all these years, and just ask you,
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: what does it all mean to you.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: That my father, best man I ever met, said that
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: thing when I was a grammar school kid playing sports.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: Never give less than a hundred. And when you think
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: about that, it sounds easy. It's difficult. Times get tough,
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: but you want to as a coach, never come to
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: practice without being a plus factor for every one of
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: your players. You want to treat them with respect. And
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: then when you get into television, you're in a whole
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: new ball game. It's a whole different life, and you
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: work with wonderful people. And I always try to say
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: this isn't just a two man act, as you and
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: I both know. We got the guys in the truck,
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: the producers and directors, they're they're taking care of an
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: army of people and we'll get great television. Now. I
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: want to say thank you on be heare for my
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: family for the nine years of high school coaching three sports,
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: and then going to Women and Mary for a year
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: and Duke for four and then come in here and
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: my college roommate were we used the room together for
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: three years in basketball until he graduated All American, and
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: then he brought me here and for me to end
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: it here, it is very meaningful because I learned so
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: chair I said it early in this telecast. I got
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: my doctor's degree as well as a master's degree. The talent,
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: the work ethic, never give up. Surrounded by incredible people
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: who are own the Hall of Fame and you the
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: day is humbling, very humbling, because you come to work
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: and you want to give everybody a hundred, but you
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: don't realize the lives that you cross when you do
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: fifty years of this and then two years in the
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: ABA where we had a great time, and that was
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: fifty two years of the pros. But thank all the
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: management for having faith in me allow me to coach.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: And then I want to thank all of the company
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: on television. I mean, you got it. You got to
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: give USA a credit. I mean they didn't know me
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: for madam okay, and they allowed me to do it
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: for a year. Clearly had a good scouting about that's right.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: And I was able to look on CBS for three
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: years before they lost the contract, you know, uh to NBC.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: And but then Dick Stockton, who was on here today, uh,
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: we eventually end up over there with Turner and we
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: were there for twelve years and and then all of
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, you're you're moving around and and
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: then oops, here comes the ESPN at ABC. Okay. So
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: I have so many things to be thankful for, but
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: my family and I can never thank everyone enough. We
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: just want to send them the love that I've seen
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: today right back with a big hug. And it was
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: a fantastic ride. And guys like you make it easy
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: my man, okay, because nobody's more prepared.
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: Than you well stop giving credit otherwise to other people.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: So anyway, I just would like to say thank you.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: That's the best thing that I can say, and that
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: we tried to come to everything prepared and we tried
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: to be able to show you the difference between the
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: weak side and the strong side, and why things happen
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: on one side and not the other, and then who's
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: doing what who's not doing so that we never underestimate
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: the IQ of the audience, but we want to help
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: improve that they can see the other side of the
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: floor where a lot of action is happening. So thanks
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: for your patience, fans. Today was a wonderful day for
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: my family because they're all here today and I love
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: you all, and thank you for the opportunity from management.
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: And thank you for everything you've done for all of
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: us and for this game and for the NBA. All right,
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: thank you, Matt Ubi Brown, the Hall of Famer, the
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: most remarkable career in sports broadcasting history. And we'll go
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: with one final rollout. Well, it's impossible in a single
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: telecast to properly thank a man who has given us
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: so much for so long. For basketball fans around the world,
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: ub Brown has been the gift that keeps on giving,
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: sharing his knowledge and experience and joy of the game.
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: He dedicated his life, and his final broadcast has been
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: called the end of an era. But Ubi's impact will
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: continue because the teachings and love of the game will
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: be passed down for generations of basketball fans. All the
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: people he taught, all the people he influenced, all the
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: people he touched. So with the utmost respect, admiration, and
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: so much love, we say thank you Ubi. Its game
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: and its fans will never forget you.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: M m hm h.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: M yeah, uh uh h
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: H