Toby Bailey

Toby Bailey
Personal information
Born	November 19, 1975 (age 48); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight	215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
High school	Loyola (Los Angeles, California)
College	UCLA (1994–1998)
NBA draft	1998: 2nd round, 45th overall pick
	Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers
Playing career	1999–2011
Position	Shooting guard / small forward
Number	12
Career history
1999–2000	Phoenix Suns
2000–2001	Los Angeles Stars
2001–2002	Fillattice Imola
2002–2003	Panionios
2003–2004	Aris
2004–2005	AEK Athens
2006	Telenet Oostende
2007	Beijing Olympians
2007	Santa Barbara Breakers
2007–2008	Köln 99ers
2008	Ricoh Manresa
2009	Artland Dragons
2009	Los Angeles Lightning
2010	Artland Dragons
2010	Los Angeles Lightning
2010–2011	EnBW Ludwigsburg
Career highlights and awards
	Greek Cup winner (2004); All-Greek League Second Team (2004); 2× Greek All-Star Game (2004, 2005); Greek All-Star Game Slam Dunk champion (2005); Belgian League champion (2006); NCAA champion (1995); 3× First-team All-Pac-10 (1996–1998);
	Stats at NBA.com
	Stats at Basketball Reference

John Garfield "Toby" Bailey (born November 19, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. He is currently a sports agent.

College career

Bailey played four years of college basketball at UCLA, being part of the Bruins squad that won the 1995 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. In the championship game against Arkansas, Bailey scored 26 points and had nine rebounds as a freshman.^[1] All of the team's starting lineup – Bailey, Ed O'Bannon, Tyus Edney, George Zidek, and Charles O'Bannon^[2] – later played in both the National Basketball Association and overseas. Bailey was a first-team All-Pacific-10 Conference selection in 1996, 1997, and 1998.^[3] He was voted co-most valuable player of the Bruins in 1996 and 1998.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Professional career

Bailey was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round (45th overall) of the 1998 NBA draft, and played for two seasons with the Phoenix Suns, averaging 3.3 points per game in 73 regular season games.

After his NBA career, and following a brief spell in the ABA, he moved on to Europe, successively representing Fillattice Imola (Italy), Panionios BC, Aris Thessaloniki and AEK Athens (Greece), Telindus Oostende (Belgium), Köln 99ers (Germany), and Ricoh Manresa^[7] (Spain). He finished his career playing for EnBW Ludwigsburg in Ludwigsburg, Germany before retiring in 2013.

Sports agent career

In 2012, Bailey and Dean Walle started a small basketball player representation firm, Sky Sports Management. They joined Rival Sports Group in 2014 as vice presidents of basketball, with president of basketball Mitchell Butler, who also played at UCLA.^[8]^[9]

Notes

^ Heisler, Mark (April 4, 1995). "Bailey Ball Is Beautiful". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012.
^ UCLA Basketball History
^ Finney 2010, p.105
^ Finney 2010, p.110
^ "Toby Bailey College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
^ "Toby Bailey Basketball Player Profile, MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg, UCLA, News, BBL stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
^ Toby Bailey, el reemplazo de Walsh en Manresa (Toby Bailey, Walsh's substitute in Manresa) (in Spanish)
^ Mullen, Liz (March 19, 2014). "Butler, formerly of Lagardère, takes position as president of basketball for Rival Sports Group". sportsbusinessdaily.com. Archived from the original on September 4, 2014.
^ Janikowski, A. J. (September 8, 2013). "Ketchikan grad invited to Celtics tryout". Anchorage Daily News. Archived from the original on September 12, 2013.

References

Finney, Ryan (2010). "2010–11 UCLA Men's Basketball Media Guide" (PDF). UCLA Athletic Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2011.

External links

Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
AEK player profile
Basketpedya career data

[1] Heisler, Mark (April 4, 1995). "Bailey Ball Is Beautiful". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012.

[2] UCLA Basketball History

[3] Finney 2010, p.105

[4] Finney 2010, p.110

[5] "Toby Bailey College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 4, 2020.

[6] "Toby Bailey Basketball Player Profile, MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg, UCLA, News, BBL stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC. Retrieved November 4, 2020.

[7] Toby Bailey, el reemplazo de Walsh en Manresa (Toby Bailey, Walsh's substitute in Manresa) (in Spanish)

[8] Mullen, Liz (March 19, 2014). "Butler, formerly of Lagardère, takes position as president of basketball for Rival Sports Group". sportsbusinessdaily.com. Archived from the original on September 4, 2014.

[9] Janikowski, A. J. (September 8, 2013). "Ketchikan grad invited to Celtics tryout". Anchorage Daily News. Archived from the original on September 12, 2013.

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