Thurl Bailey
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Thurl Lee Bailey (born April 7, 1961) is an American retired professional basketball player whose NBA career spanned 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Bailey has worked as an inspiration speaker, singer, songwriter, and film actor for the Utah Jazz and University of Utah.
Personal life
Bailey was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in a violent neighborhood of Capitol Heights, Maryland bordering Washington, D.C.
Bailey is the father of six children. Chonell has a daughter and two sons, Thurl, Jr., and TeVaun, who were born in 1969. Bailey and his partner, Sindi (née Southwick), live in Salt Lake City with their three children BreElle, Brendan, and Bryson. Brendan's son played basketball at Marquette.
Bailey was raised Baptist. Bailey, who was playing basketball in Italy, decided to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On December 31, 1995, he was baptized by his father-in-law.
Basketball career
Bailey attended North Carolina State University and was a pioneer in the Wolfpack's historic NCAA Championship bid in 1983. He led the Wolfpack in both scoring and rebounding under head coach Jim Valvano in that year. He was selected as the seventh pick of the 1983 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz. He was chosen for his personality, as well as the quality of his play, according to jazz staff. This was the start of 16 years of playing professional basketball, with 12 of them in the NBA. Bailey's career-high points game came on March 14, 1988, when he scored 41 points and grabbed 8 rebounds in a 116-115 victory over the Denver Nuggets.
Bailey was a starter with the Jazz for the majority of his first two seasons, but Jazz coach Frank Layden made Bailey one of the first options off the bench during his first two seasons. Bailey's two best NBA seasons (19.6 ppg, played in all 82 games and started ten times) and 1988–89 (19.5 ppg, 3 starts), as a result. In the Sixth Man of the Year polls, he came in second place in both seasons. During Bailey's time in Utah, he appeared in 665 games, but only four games were eligible to play in.
He was traded by the Jazz along with a 1992 second-round draft pick for Tyrone Corbin to the Minnesota Timberwolves on November 25, 1991. During the 1991–92 season, Bailey had the distinct honor of appearing in 84 combined regular-season games. He played in Minnesota for almost three seasons until 1994, when he retired from basketball and played in the Greek League (playing for Panionios) during the 1994-1995 season. He played in the Italian League from 1995–98 and Stefanel Milano in 1997–98 before returning to the Jazz as a free agent on January 21, 1999. He retired at the end of the 1998–99 season.
Career after the NBA
Bailey, a public speaker, a broadcast analyst for the Utah Jazz and University of Utah, an actor, and a singer/songwriter. Faith In Your Heart (1998)), The Gift of Christmas (2001), and I'm Not the Same (2002) are three Bailey's albums.
Bailey is chairman of Big T Productions, Fertile Earth (which has a patent pending on a fertilizer that operates through irrigation sprinkler systems) and FourLeaf Films.
He works for numerous charities, including Make-A-Wish, D.A.R.E., and the Happy Factory.
Coaching career
Bailey is still a coach in the Salt Lake City area for the private coaching company, CoachUp.
Bailey presided at the 2008 Republican National Convention in the opening prayer.