Marcus Brown Signs with Maccabi for One Year

By Amy Samin

Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv is pleased to announce the signing of guard Marcus Brown for one season.
Brown will arrive in Israel at 13:45 today (Monday) and will join the team.
Tomorrow the guard will fly out to Zagreb with the team in preparation for Thursday’s game against Cibona.

Brown (34 years old, 1.91 meters or 6’ 6”), a talented, experienced guard, is known as the all-time top shooter in the Euroleague with
2,312 points, and is second all-around (Vujcic is first) with a rating of 2,381 points.

In his impressive career, Brown has played in 140 Euroleague games, and he is one of only two players (Luis Scola is the other) who scored over 2,000 points in the top league in Europe.
His averages in the Euroleague are 16.5 points, 2.8 assists, 2.6 rebounds, 52.1% from two-point range, 39.3% from three-point range, and 85.7% from the free throw line.
Brown has the touch from the outside (all-time fourth best in the Euroleague), and he’s listed seventh of all time in assists made.

Last season, Brown played for Zalgiris Kaunas; before that, he played two years with Unicaja Malaga, two years with CSKA Moscow, two years with Efes Pilsen, and one year with Benetton Treviso.
At the beginning of his career, he also played in the N.B.A., for the Portland Trailblazers and the Detroit Pistons.
He also wore the uniforms of two French teams, Orthez and Limoges.

Brown is a winner who has led almost every team he has played for to their local championships.
Last season, Brown led Zalgiris to victory in the Baltic league championship, the Lithuanian championship, and the Lithuanian cup.
Similarly, he won the Spanish championship (2006), the Russian championship twice (2004 and 2005), the Turkish championship twice (2002 and 2003), and the French championship twice (1998 and 2000).
In addition, Brown won four cups (France, Russia, Turkey and Lithuania).
He has played three times in the Euroleague Final Four (twice with CSKA and once with Malaga).
In 2000, he won the Korac cup with Limoges.

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