Sometimes, when you look at famous people, it’s hard to imagine them as ever being young. A perfect example is Morgan Freeman. The man has been old since The Electric Company, and that show is before the time of most of the people reading this entry! It’s almost as if he came out the womb with fuzzy gray hair, narrating the experience:
“Although I was comfortable in the womb, I longed for more. The uncertainty that lay ahead of me in my journey to light appeared treacherous. Yet, I felt compelled to press onward, moving forward in my exodus from the womb.”
The basketball world has it’s own version of Morgan Freeman: Hubie Brown. Yes, Hubie, that most wise and sensible of game commentators. Sure, Hubie Brown was one of the world’s first white men with nappy hair. Sure, the name “Hubie Brown” sounds like it could belong to a janitor at the local YMCA. None of that matters, because Hubie brings a quiet dignity to NBA games in his old man way. Plus, judging from the video, he was (kind of) young once!
I would have loved to have had this guy as my high school basketball coach! The same way Morgan Freeman was narrating documentaries from the womb, I have a feeling Hubie Brown was dribbling a basketball and drawing up plays on a clipboard. Must have been a difficult labor process for his mother to go through.
But yeah, here’s to you, Hubie. Stay cool, and keep on calling the games the way you do right now. Your old-school wisdom is appreciated!
That was awesome.
Patrick Stewart is another guy who never seems to have been young. I saw him in Dune and he looks the same as now.
Honorable mention to Dr. Jack Ramsay.
LMAO @ Morgan’s narration.. I memba my friend Ronnie said Hubie looked like the Fly in transformation ROTFLMAO, sorry HB LOL
@ Phoenix7, That’s funny! The most common Hubie Brown comparison I’ve heard is Skeletor from the “Masters of the Universe” cartoons.
@ Jamal, Dr. Jack Ramsay is a legendary basketball white man, kind of like Angelo Dundee is to boxing!
@ T a.k.a. Ricky Raw, that’s true as well. Patrick Stewart ages backwards like Benjamin Button
(440): I wish Morgan Freeman narrated my life.~ from text from last night.
You mean Morgan Freeman who’s gonna marry his own step-granddaughter (whom he may have raped 10 years ago when she was 17 and he was already 117)?
Yeah, you do wonder sometimes what the credentials are of some of the fogey commentators. Like Dick Vitale. I know he coached in college, but I don’t even think he won a championship. And the Csar. I remember him coaching Atlanta, but not much glory. I always wonder what kinda players these dudes were, too.
@ Sasha, that’s funny!
@ Anonymousnupe, I always wonder about the actual on-court skills of some coaches. In high school, I used to be like “I’d kick Jeff Van Gundy’s ass in a game of one-on-one!” LOL