Hubie Brown, 91, prepares to broadcast final NBA game - ESPN

Hubie Brown had just taken his first college coaching job in 1968 and didn't expect that he'd also be asked to teach.

So, for his one year as an assistant at William & Mary, he taught two elective basketball courses.

Brown, now 91 and set to work his final game as a broadcaster, never stopped teaching the sport in more than 55 years since. But his audience grew from college students to players, coaches and TV viewers all over the world.

«It's the most remarkable thing and it's not hyperbole: He has probably taught more people about the game of basketball than anybody that's ever lived,» broadcasting partner Mike Breen said.

Brown and Breen will work ABC's telecast of Sunday's game between Philadelphia and Milwaukee, where Brown got his first NBA opportunity as an assistant coach with the Bucks teams featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson in 1972.

For the next five decades, he'd move from the coach's box to the TV table and back, earning induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005 for his contributions to basketball.

Brown has called 18 NBA Finals between TV and radio during his 35 years as a national TV and radio analyst. Yet he says he'll be nervous Sunday as he was before doing every game, despite his extraordinary preparation that included watching both teams play at least twice in the week beforehand.

«You're always nervous,» Brown said. «That's me. I don't worry about anybody else. Because you want to be able to paint the picture, you want to be able to educate the fan to another level of expertise, and you realize it's a team doing it, not yourself.»

The team, for Brown, is his partner along with the director and producer. The time they spend together preparing, becoming like