John Salley was born in the year 1964 and he is American retired basketball player and played as a professional. He is now a talk show host and actor. He made history of being the first player in the NBA history who played in three different championship-winning franchises and the other player is Tim Duncan.

He was drafted to join Georgia Tech in the year 1986. He played in the center and power forward for Los Angeles Lakers, Panathinaikos, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat and Detroit Pistons. He is a host of the Fox Sports Net show named The Best Damn Sports Show Period.

According to his biography John Salley was born in the city of Brooklyn in New York. He was playing high school ball at the Carnarsie High School of Brooklyn. He graduated in the year 1988 at Georgia Tech’s College of Management. He is the holder of personal fouls records of Georgia Tech. His jersey number which is 22 got retired and this is a rare honor at college basketball level.

John Salley got drafted for the first time to join Detroit Piston in the year 1986 from Georgia Tech. At the Piston, he become the close friend to Adrian Dantley and taught him the right way to exercise and to eat and how to play well while in the court. For this part Salley was calling Adrian The Teacher. Afterwards, Sally became a friend to Eddie Murphy and this made him to appear many times at Comedy clubs during off season.

With Chuck Daly as a coach, Salley become the part of the piston Era that reached to finals in three consecutive years. The oriented style of the team earned them to be called Bad Boys.

After his retirement, John Salley became actor for Bad Boys and for Bad Boys II. This is when he was a thick glassed computer hacking professional who was released after helping cracking the files of Miami Police Department. He went ahead and appeared in Eddie film with Whoopi Goldberg. He hosted I Can’t Believe You Said That, a game show of Fox Family Channel. He made also appearance at Hollywood Squares.

John Salley appeared on testimonial video of PETA and he is a vegan. He campaigns for alternative practice to massive factory farming. He is a speaker at Michigan VegFest and he appeared on their billboard. In 2010, Salley joined the team called Simply Raw. It is a group of the people who were producing the documentary called Raw for 30. It is about how diabetes can be reversed and he got interested at once because the father is suffering diabetes.

John Salley is married to Natasha Duff in the year 1993 and they got two children together. He had a daughter from an old relationship. John Salley asked Michelle Obama to become a vegan in order to set example in saving the planet.