Not in Hall of Fame

Published in Top 50 Pittsburgh Penguins
March 8, 2020

27. Rob Brown

Rob Brown began his NHL career with Pittsburgh when the 4^th Rounder debuted for the big club the year after. Brown had a good rookie year, scoring 44 points. The following season, he was on a line with Mario Lemieux and took advantage of the golden opportunity.

Published in The Athletes
November 19, 2014

Jamal Wallace

This one almost escaped us. From the brilliant Gus Van Sant film, “Finding Forrester” we have a film about friendship when a reclusive writer Sean Connery) befriends an inner city kid (Rob Brown) who is adept at poetry as he is in Basketball.

Jamal Wallace (Brown) has a chance to receive a full scholarship based on both his academics and hoops skills and through his new friendship with Forrester (Connery) they learn from each other. Realistically, Basketball plays a small role here, but this is a great film to watch.