Dee Brown
Dee Brown
Daniel "Dee" Brownis a retired American professional basketball player. Brown played at the University of Illinois from 2002 to 2006, receiving numerous awards and accolades, including the 2005 Sporting News National Player of the Year. Brown was selected in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz, and was the starting point guard for 11 consecutive games for the Washington Wizards. Brown played for several international basketball teams from 2007 to 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 August 1984
CityJackson, MS
CountryUnited States of America
You can't depend on the crowd. You have to go out and play. Coach told us they would make everyone leave, and we knew once it started it was going to pack up.
I want to thank my mom for putting me in a basketball environment and coach (Bruce) Weber for putting the ball in my hands when he got to Illinois.
Guys are a little confused, and coach is yelling all the time. It's going to be a grind. The Big Ten is a grind-out conference.
He wanted me to do more and get involved by running off screens. I wasn't doing that, and he got in my ear. ... That's what coach wants, and I have to work on it.
I never said anything bad about him. I tell a lot of people he's one of the best coaches out there just because of the type of person he is. He's a good coach. Everything he's got this year he deserves.
You mean so much to me. When someone wears my number, I think it represents our whole team. My teammates make me better. My coaches make me better.
When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.
Every team is going to play hard. The intensity level is so high I can't explain it.
Every game's a must-win game. It's going to be a good game. Two successful programs. Two great coaches. It's going to be fun.
Until I quit writing and I don't know when that will be, I will always be reading something that has to do with what I'm working on.
We were really disappointed with our performance at the end. Don't let my words fool you, we'll take a road win, but we should have played the last 10 minutes better.
We didn't play as well as we wanted in the first half, but in the second we came out with the intensity we needed. We play against teams that give us their best shot. . . . It's all how you rebound from that.
We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.
Bo Ryan does an excellent job in this arena. So for us to come in here and win two years in a row is special to me.