Danny Ferry
Daniel John Willard Ferry ( born October 17, 1966 in Baltimore, Maryland ) is a retired, American professional basketball player.
Ferry is currently the general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA. Among other things, the small forward played with the Cavaliers and the San Antonio Spurs.
Career
College
Danny Ferry played four years at Duke University, where he in 1989 as a senior several National Player of the Year awards won ( Naismith, Oscar Robertson and UPI). With Duke, he moved three times in the NCAA Final Four a (1986, 1988 and 1989). He twice won the title of MVP of the East Regional Tournament. Ferry still holds today Dukes points record of 58 points in a game against Miami on December 10, 1988 It is also to be found in the leaderboards the school.: He is fourth best points scorer ( 2,155 ), fifth- best rebounder ( 1,003 ) and gave the siebentmeisten assists (506 ). He also starred in the fifth- most games (143).
1989 's shirt number was (35 ) of Duke retired, is no longer given to other players.
NBA
Danny Ferry was at Duke selected after his time in the NBA Draft in 1989 by the Los Angeles Clippers in second place. However, he refused to play for the Clippers. He then accepted a contract initially in the Italian Serie A at Pallacanestro Virtus Roma. Shortly after he went to Italy, the Clippers exchanged on 16 November 1989 its rights and Reggie Williams to the Cleveland Cavaliers. But got Los Angeles Ron Harper, two Erstrundendraftpicks (1990 and 1992 ) and a second-round draft pick (1991).
Ferry signed in 1990 a ten -year contract with the Cavaliers, for whom he played then ten years. He had his best season in 1995/96, when he was able to achieve 13.3 points on average. Danny graduated from the most games in the history of the Cavaliers (723). Also, tried and he hit the second most Threesome in club history ( 543 of 1,409 attempts), the fifth-best triple throw percentage achieved ( 38.5 percent ), played the sixth- most minutes ( 15,045 ) and had the siebentbeste free throw success rate ( 84.1 percent).
On 10 August 2000 Ferry was a free agent contract with the San Antonio Spurs. He helped the Spurs to the NBA championship in 2002/ 03. With the title win Ferry also finished his career as an active athlete.
Initially, he continued working for the Spurs. He was Director of Basketball Operations to win the title of San Antonio in the season 2004/05.
On 27 June 2005 Ferry was taken as general manager for five years by the Cleveland Cavaliers under contract.