The 43-year-old former Silver Fern has quietly slipped into the role of Basketball Otago general manager.
She started on September 1 without any fanfare.
Brown, who made 61 appearances for the Silver Ferns from 2002 to 2015, has spent the past three years working for Drug Free Sport New Zealand, which has become Sport Integrity Aotearoa.
She was working in "the education space" schooling athletes up on their responsibilities.
While Brown was best known for her shooting skills on the netball court, she was also a very handy basketballer.
She played for the Otago Gold Rush and has kept the skills up.
In June, she suited up for Ajax in the premier women’s grade and played alongside her teenage daughters, Kiana and Aria.
Her 7-year-old son, Jimmy, is shaping up as pretty sporty as well.
"Basketball's always been a passion," she said.
"If basketball offered me the opportunities netball presented when I was 16, I probably would have taken a different path. But netball just had a bit more of a carrot at that stage."
Brown’s husband, Markham Brown, is a former Otago representative and he used to sit in the seat Brown now occupies.
He was Basketball Otago general manager from 2010 until he resigned in 2014, so he is familiar with the role and its challenges.
Basketball Otago narrowly avoided liquidation in 2014 but the organisation is in a much stronger position now.
It is access to courts, rather than finances, which present the greatest obstacle.
"[Peter Drew has] done a great job for the last four years I think he was here. And so he's left it in really good shape.
"He's done a lot of work around funding and sponsorship and stuff like that. So financially, we're in a really good space.
"And you're exactly right. The amount of teams, kids and people that come through here every week to play basketball is massive.
"I think it was close to about 3500 to 4000 people coming in each week, so the challenges are the space and the resources that we have to run these competitions.
"I know some parents find it really hard because the younger kids are having to play until 6 or 7 o'clock at night because we just don't have court space or people available to run it.
"That's a huge challenge."
Improving the standard of the referees is another priority.
They are more growing pains than the serious challenges Markham faced.
When she told her husband she planned to applied for the role, he expressed some surprise.
"Yeah, he was like, ‘are you crazy?’ But it's in a totally different space to when he was here.
"Obviously, he had to manage the Nuggets and Basketball Otago."
The Nuggets are a separate entity now, but previously they had been a drain on the organisation.
"This is, I guess, more manageable from his point of view in terms of looking after the community side of it and making sure that we're developing pathways so that people can be in the Nuggets and the Hoiho.
"So yeah, he told me I was stupid. But he's also pretty passionate about basketball as well."
