Carlon Brown is a 2007 graduate of M.L. King High School and was a very valuable member of the Wolves community during his 4 years. Primarily a basketball player (he competed for one year in track and field), he excelled on the floor and off.

Carlon was a 3- time All-League Performer and in his senior year was All-CIF and All-State. He was Riverside County Player of the year in 2006 and 2007. He  helped lead the Wolves to two League Championships two CIF Playoff berths and a run to the State quarterfinals in 2007. He was the team MVP in ‘06 and ’07. His one season of track was significant as his best mark still sits in the All-time top 20 in the Long Jump and High Jump. Carlon was a fine student and made the Academic Honor Roll all four years in high school.

From King, Carlon went to the University of Utah where he lettered 3 years and made All Mountain West Honorable Mention in 2008 and second team in 2009. In 2009, the Utes won the MWC regular season title; the conference tournament title and qualified for the NCAA tournament. Eventually, he transferred to the University of Colorado where made the All Pac 12 Second Team. He led the Buffalos to the conference Tournament Championship and was named the tournament’s MVP. UC made it to the round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament and he was named team MVP.

 

Carlon went on to play professionally in the NBA Summer League; the G-League and overseas in Israel and Germany. In 2017, he started his own company, Point Advising LLC to help college seniors, bot men and women, in transitioning to professional basketball both at home and overseas. He eventually moved to the Phoenix, Arizona area and has served as a graduate assistant at Grand Canyon University.  He has also worked as a counselor and basketball coach at Glendale Prep Academy and currently is the assistant coach and head of player development at Bella Vista College Prep in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Carlon has his degree in Sociology from the University of Colorado and his Master’s of Science in Psychology. He served as a school counselor for mental health at Glendale Prep and has been a speaker at various university and athletic events. As one of his coaches put it, “Carlon Brown is a lcass act who has always been quietly confident and outwardly humble. He is the personification of what we want M.L King athletes to be.”

By Martin Luther King Wolves