Hubie Brown's 70-year career in basketball concludes with final broadcast as Bucks defeat 76ers

Posted Feb 16, 2025
Hubie Brown has perhaps seen a greater percentage of the history of basketball than any human being that has ever lived. The 91-year-old played his lone professional season for the Eastern Professional Basketball League's Rochester Colonels in 1958, at the same time as Wilt Chamberlain was playing for the Harlem Globetrotters. (CBS Sports)

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