Airplane Mode

Greg Brown III can straight-up fly, and soon the Texas native will be soaring to new heights during his senior season, then in college, and then…well, you know.

- Ryan Jones

Greg Brown II was a standout safety at the University of Texas before stints playing in the NFL and arena league. As such, he views competitive sports primarily through the lens of his experience on the football field. Now, as the father of a son who has developed into a top-10 high school basketball prospect, Brown admits that he doesn’t always appreciate what he’s helped build. And he’s fine with that.

“I think it’s been a good thing that I don’t know how good he really is,” Brown says of his son, Greg Brown III. “Like, OK, you did a 360 windmill between the legs, whatever, that was nice. But hey, we gotta get back to work. I’m a football guy. That’s kind of been my mentality since Day 1.”

That mentality seems to be working well for both father and son. Seven years after he picked up the game at his dad’s urging as a tall, skinny, out-of-shape 10-year-old, Greg Brown III is a 6-8 forward at Vandegrift (TX) High in Austin and a top-5 prospect nationally in the 2020 class. He got there with countless hours in the gym, and plenty of nudging from his pops.