Know Your Team: Rhamel Brown

Halifax Hurricanes

6’7

Forward

From Brooklyn, New York

Halifax welcomes back Rhamel Brown, a player who, throughout all of his playing career, always makes his time on the court count.

A graduate of Transit Tech High School in Brooklyn - where he was named New York Daily News Player of the Year as a senior - Brown went on to play for the Manhattan Jaspers in 2010. He recorded a record number of blocks for a Manhattan freshman (68) and finished fifth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in rebounding.

He went on to win three conference Defensive Player of the Year of the awards, the Jaspers' all-time leader in blocked shots and helped take the team to win the 2014 MAAC championship and an appearance in the NCAA Division 1 tournament the same year (They lost 71-64 to fourth-seeded Louisville).

His career with Manhattan over, he joined his first professional team, Maccabi Hod HaSharon in Israel and had a brief stint with Sameji in the Dominican Republic. In 2016, he signed with Lucerne in Switzerland, where he averaged 10.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game on 63% field shooting.

The following season he came to the NBL Canada for the first time, signing for the Halifax Hurricanes. Appearing in 54 games, and starting in 31, he finished his first season in Canada having averaged 7.8 points and rebounds per game en route to appearing in the finals, where Halifax ultimately lost out 4-3 to the London Lightning.

Brown was a late addition to the Halifax roster in 2018, but after seventeen games played he was tenth in all of the NBLC for offensive rebounding, third in blocks and he lead the league with 62% field shooting - these numbers going a long way to show how valuable a player he is.

Picture: Derek Ruttan