an offensive rebounder and a good recipient of the alley-oop pass. | #25 Damone Brown |
| 6'8" | 202 lbs | Forward |
| HS: Seneca Vocational | Buffalo, NY |
| Born: 6/28/1979 | Buffalo, NY |
| Season | Cl | Pos | G | GS | Min | FG | FGA | % | FT | FTA | % | 3Pt | 3PA | % | Asst | Reb | DReb | OReb | Fls | DQ | TO | ST | BS | Pts | PPG | APG | RPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-98 | Fr | F | 15 | 0 | 53 | 10 | 24 | 41.7% | 5 | 10 | 50.0% | 1 | 6 | 16.7% | 1 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 26 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 |
| 1998-99 | So | F | 33 | 26 | 815 | 128 | 256 | 50.0% | 45 | 60 | 75.0% | 13 | 57 | 22.8% | 26 | 180 | 117 | 63 | 97 | 4 | 42 | 28 | 23 | 314 | 9.5 | 0.8 | 5.5 |
| 1999-00 | Jr | F | 31 | 31 | 807 | 137 | 268 | 51.1% | 55 | 82 | 67.1% | 2 | 12 | 16.7% | 42 | 190 | 109 | 81 | 86 | 3 | 46 | 31 | 19 | 331 | 10.7 | 1.4 | 6.1 |
| 2000-01 | Sr | F | 34 | 34 | 1222 | 215 | 437 | 49.2% | 125 | 158 | 79.1% | 4 | 14 | 28.6% | 65 | 300 | 191 | 109 | 92 | 2 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 559 | 16.4 | 1.9 | 8.8 |
| Career | 113 |
91 |
2897 |
490 |
985 |
49.7% |
230 |
310 |
74.2% |
20 |
89 |
22.5% |
134 |
683 |
423 |
260 |
284 |
9 |
163 |
118 |
96 |
1230 |
10.9 |
1.2 |
6.0 |
Damone Brown played forward for Syracuse basketball for four seasons. He was a tall lanky player who could run the ball well, and had a decent mid range jump shot, and was a solid free throw shooter. He was a good defender, the perfect type of player for coach Jim Boeheim's zone defense. Brown was effective as an offensive rebounder and a good recipient of the alley-oop pass.
Brown came to Syracuse as a very skinny player, and barely played his freshman year, logging 53 minutes of game time. He would work to gain wait each year, though he would still be a thin player his senior year. He started his sophomore year as a reserve, but by the eighth game of the season, he had replaced Eric Williams as the starting small forward.
He would continue to improve, and by his senior season Brown had developed into a solid player. He moved into the power forward position, and led the team in rebounding, and was second in scoring to Preston Shumpert. He had learned to make the mid range jump shot by that point in his career. He would earn Big East Second Team honors his senior season.
Brown would be a second round pick by the Philadelphia 76'ers in the NBA 2001 draft. He would be a reserve forward in the NBA for four seasons with four different teams: Philadelphia, Toronto, New Jersey and Washington.
| Season | Team | Pos | G | Min | FG | FGA | % | FT | FTA | % | 3FGA | 3FGM | % | Asst | Reb | Fls | DQ | TO | ST | BS | Pts | PPG | APG | RPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-02 | Philadelphia |
F | 17 | 67 |
8 |
21 |
38.1% | 7 |
8 |
87.5% | 0 |
1 |
0.0% | 2 |
4 |
11 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
1 |
23 |
1.4 |
0.1 |
0.2 |
| 2002-03 | Toronto |
F | 5 | 115 |
11 |
35 |
31.4% | 6 |
8 |
75.0% | 0 |
2 |
0.0% | 3 |
15 |
14 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
28 |
5.6 |
0.6 |
3.0 |
| 2003-04 | New Jersey |
F | 3 | 17 |
1 |
10 |
10.0% | 1 |
2 |
50.0% | 0 |
0 |
0.0% | 0 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
1.0 |
0.0 |
1.7 |
| 2004-05 | Washington |
F | 14 |
152 |
23 |
62 |
37.1% |
4 |
9 |
44.4% |
4 |
11 |
36.4% |
14 |
28 |
17 |
0 |
15 |
1 |
6 |
54 |
3.9 |
1.0 |
2.0 |
Total |
F | 39 |
351 |
43 |
128 |
33.6% |
18 |
27 |
66.7% |
4 |
14 |
28.6% | 19 |
52 |
44 |
0 |
31 |
5 |
7 |
108 |
2.8 |
0.5 |
1.3 |
Damone Brown for several minor league U.S. teams and international teams in Europe and South America in a professional career that ended in 2013.
Brown was arrested in 2009 for money laundering with a Buffalo cocaine ring. He plea bargained for probation time, admitting that he hid $170,000 of drug money in his safe deposit box as a favor for his sister's boyfriend, a Buffalo drug dealer.[1]
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[1] Buffalo News, November 4, 2011