Professional Career
He was selected by the Utah Jazz with 51st pick in the 2005 NBA Draft out of Walsh, an NAIA school. With the Jazz, Whaley played 23 games and played an average 9.2 minutes each game, also scoring on average 2.1 points, making 1.9 rebounds, and shooting 40.4% of attempted field goals. He scored a career-high 11 points on December 23, 2005 against the New York Knicks and 7 rebounds against the Sacramento Kings on November 15, 2005. After sporadic playing time during the 2005-06 season, he suffered a season-ending cartilage-tear to his right knee.
On early Sunday morning, December 11, 2005, Whaley and Jazz teammate Deron Williams were involved in a brawl with Denver Nuggets fans at a bar in the resort town of Park City, Utah. The fight began inside a bar when some Nuggets fans who recognised the two players and approached them and said they did not like the Jazz. The fight, which involved eight to 10 people, then spilled outside. Both provided false names to police officers investigating the incident, with Whaley giving his as "Bobby Williams". It was the same night that Whaley cut his hand on broken glass, a fact which he acknowledged, but denied it was from the fight. He later told Utah Jazz officials he cut it while confiscating a sharp kitchen knife away from his 2-year-old son. He later confessed he had made the story up, and subsequently as a result faced disciplinary action by the team for lying.
On June 8, 2006, Whaley and Jazz teammate Kris Humphries were traded to the Toronto Raptors for Rafael Araújo. He was waived by the Raptors on June 21.
In the summer of 2006, Whaley joined the Dominican Republic team Los Metros de Santiago then in the fall the Twin City Ballers of the ABA. He then played for Petrochimi Bandar Imam BC of the Iranian Basketball Super League.
Whaley played 22 games with the Los Angeles D-Fenders, the NBA Development League team of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, in the 2007-2008 season.
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