Brown finished his senior year at the University of Iowa in 1971, averaging 27.6 points per game,[REF] and was selected by the Kentucky Colonels in the American Basketball Association draft and selected 6th overall by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1971 NBA draft.
After Snyder was traded to the Cavaliers in 1974, Brown's output increased again, to 21.0 points per game in the 1974-75 season and he finished fifth in the league in steals per game.