Professional Career
Cheaney was selected 6th overall by the Washington Bullets in the 1993 NBA Draft. His strongest showing as pro came in 1994-1995 when he averaged a career-high 16.6 points for Washington. He would go on to play for the Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets, and Utah Jazz, before closing his career out with the Golden State Warriors, retiring after the 2005-06 season.
Off the court, Cheaney appeared along with many of his 1997 Bullet teammates in singer Crystal Waters' 1996 video "Say If You Feel Alright".
He also appeared in the 1994 film Blue Chips as a player for Indiana University.
Read more about this topic: Calbert Cheaney
Famous quotes containing the words professional and/or career:
“I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.”
—Kate Chopin (1851–1904)
“The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so—concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.”
—Jessie Bernard (20th century)