Dwayne Polee

{{Short description|American basketball player and coach}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Dwayne Polee

| image =

| image_size =

| caption =

| team = San Francisco Dons

| position = Director of player development

| league = West Coast Conference

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 5

| weight_lbs = 180

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|3|2}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California

| nationality = American

| high_school = Manual Arts
(Los Angeles, California)

| college =

• UNLV (1981–1982)
• Pepperdine (1983–1986)

| draft_year = 1986

| draft_round = 3

| draft_pick = 54

| draft_team = Los Angeles Clippers

| career_start = 1986

| career_end = 1991

| career_number = 12

| career_position = Shooting guard

| coach_start = 2000

| coach_end = 2001

| years1 = {{nbay|1986|start}}

| team1 = Los Angeles Clippers

| years2 = 1989–1991

| team2 = Limoneros de Colima

| cyears1 = 2000–2001

| cteam1 = Los Angeles Southwest (assistant)

| highlights =

• 2× WCAC Player of the Year (1985, 1986)
• 2× First-team All-WCAC (1985, 1986)
• Third-team Parade All-American (1981)
• McDonald's All-American (1981)
• California Mr. Basketball (1981)

}}

Dwayne L. Polee Sr. (born March 2, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player and coach who has been the director of player development at the University of San Francisco since 2012. From 2007 to 2010, he was the director of basketball operations at the University of Southern California.{{cite news |author1=Mark Zeigler |title=Playing USF has deeper meaning for SDSU’s Polee |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/dec/20/tp-playing-usf-has-deeper-meaning-for-sdsus-polee/ |access-date=17 March 2022 |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=20 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312163553/http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2012/dec/20/tp-playing-usf-has-deeper-meaning-for-sdsus-polee/all/ |archive-date=12 March 2016}} Polee graduated from Manual Arts High School in 1981 and first attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas before transferring to Pepperdine University in 1982. He was drafted in the third round of the 1986 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers and played in one game with the team during the 1986–87 season. He played basketball for two years in Mexico with Limoneros de Colima from 1989 to 1991.{{cite web |title=Dwayne Polee Biography |url=https://usctrojans.com/coaches.aspx?rc=570&path=mbball |publisher=University of Southern California Athletics |accessdate=20 September 2019}} Following his retirement from playing, Polee served as an assistant coach at Los Angeles Southwest College during the 2000–01 season.

Polee, a 6'5" swingman, was the 1981 Los Angeles City Section Player of the Year at Manual Arts.{{cite news |author1=Ben Bolch |title=For Dwayne Polee Jr., basketball wasn't always a slam dunk |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-26-la-sp-0327-dwayne-polee-20100327-story.html |access-date=17 March 2022 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=26 March 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306031630/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/26/sports/la-sp-0327-dwayne-polee-20100327 |archive-date=6 March 2016}} He turned in perhaps the greatest individual performance in City championship game history when he scored 43 points in Manual Arts' 82–69 victory over Crenshaw High School at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in front of 14,123, the largest crowd in city history.{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Baker |title=Polee Scores 43; Manual Arts Wins City Prep Title |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1981-03-08 }}{{cite news |author1=Eric Sondheimer |title=Great championship games: Dwayne Polee scores 43 points before 14,136 at Sports Arena |url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2020-04-04/la-sp-dwayne-polee-43-points |access-date=17 March 2022 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=4 April 2020}}{{cite news |author1=Lonnie White |title=A Night to Remember : No Matter What Former Manual Arts Basketball Standout Dwayne Polee Ever Does He Will Probably Always Be Known Most for Incredible Title Game Performance |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-15-sp-36262-story.html |access-date=17 March 2022 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=15 February 1996}}

{{anchor|Dwayne Jr.}}His son, Dwayne Jr., also won the Los Angeles City Section Player of the Year in 2010 playing for Westchester High School. They were the second father–son combo to achieve the distinction.{{#tag:ref|Marques (1973) and Kris Johnson (1993) were the first.{{cite news |last1=Waters |first1=Sean |last2=Lee |first2=Kirby |title=Johnson & Johnson Score a City 4-A First |date=March 28, 1993 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-28-ci-16514-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518205758/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-28/news/ci-16514_1_marques-johnson |archive-date=May 18, 2014 |url-status=live }}|group=note}} Dwayne Jr. played college ball for San Diego State.