Experienced NBA guard Sterling Brown will make the jump to Europe with ALBA Berlin, the club announced on Tuesday. Brown (1.96 meters, 28 years old) appeared for the Los Angeles Lakers in four games last season and spend the rest of it with Raptors 905 of the NBA G League. Including last season, he has played in a total of 290 NBA games over six seasons beginning in 2017. In that span, he has posted 5.3 points and 3.3 rebounds in 16.6 minutes on average. Brown, who signing a two-year deal, will make his Turkish Airlines EuroLeague debut. He is the third new guard that ALBA has added in the offseason, after Matt Thomas and Matteo Spagnolo.
ALBA brings on NBA veteran Sterling Brown
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Five busy NBA seasons
After being a second-round draftee in 2017, Brown spent his first three pro seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks, appearing in at least 52 games in each of them. In his best scoring season in Milwaukee, he averaged 6.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.4 assists. After moving to the Houston Rockets, his minutes jumped to 24.1 per game and his numbers to 8.2 points and 4.4 rebounds in the 2020-21 season. The following season, he played 49 games with the Dallas Mavericks, putting up 3.3 points and 3.0 rebounds on average.
Family tradition in the NBA
Brown is the younger brother by nine years of Shannon Brown, who won two NBA titles with the Lakers, in 2009 and 2010, and retired in 2018. Before that happened, though, he reunited on the court with his younger brother. Sterling had begun his pro career that same season with the Milwaukee Bucks, but was assigned at times to the team's G League affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd, which brought the two together in late 2017 during what was that team's innaugural season.