Ray Jackson (basketball)
{{short description|Former American college and professional basketball player}}
{{About|the American basketballer|other persons with this name|Ray Jackson (disambiguation){{!}}Ray Jackson}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| image =Ray Jackson Michigan 1993.jpg
| caption =Jackson in 1993 with the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.
| name = Ray Jackson
| position = Shooting guard / small forward
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 6
| weight_lbs = 220
| league =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|11|13}}
| birth_place = San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
| high_school = Lyndon B. Johnson
(Austin, Texas)
| college = Michigan (1991–1995)
| draft_year = 1995
| career_start = 1995
| career_end = 2001
| years1 = 1995–1997
| team1 = Grand Rapids Mackers
| years2 = 1997–1998
| team2 = SIG Strasbourg
| years3 = 1998–1999
| team3 = Grand Rapids Hoops
| years4 = 1999–2000
| team4 = Obras Sanitarias
| years5 = 2000–2001
| team5 = Grand Rapids Hoops
| years6 = 2001
| team6 = Cocodrilos de Caracas
| highlights =
- CBA Rookie of the Year (1996)
- CBA All-Rookie First Team (1996)
}}
Ray Jackson (born November 13, 1973)U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is an American former professional basketball player. He is most well known for his time as a member of the Fab Five with the Michigan Wolverines.
College career
Jackson was part of the famed University of Michigan Wolverines Fab Five along with former NBA players Chris Webber, Jimmy King, Jalen Rose, and Juwan Howard that reached the 1992 & 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as both Freshmen and Sophomores.
Although the Fab Five final four appearances have been forfeited,{{cite book|title=2007-08 Men's Basketball Media Guide|publisher=University of Michigan|page=8|year=2007}} he was not among the players called before the grand jury (Robert Traylor, Webber, Rose, Maurice Taylor and Louis Bullock){{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/aanews/basketball/index.ssf?/stories/wolverines/20001019amartin19.frm|title=Former U-M assistant testifies in Martin case: Also, prosecutors issue two indictments of Martin's associates|date=October 19, 2000|publisher=Michigan Live LLC|work=Ann Arbor News|author=Larcom, Geoff|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030110220345/http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/aanews/basketball/index.ssf?%2Fstories%2Fwolverines%2F20001019amartin19.frm|archivedate=January 10, 2003|url-status=dead}} in the University of Michigan basketball scandal and was not found to have received large amounts of money.{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/aanews/basketball/index.ssf?/stories/wolverines/20020322martin_indictment_text.html|title=Text of the indictment|date=March 22, 2002|publisher=Michigan Live LLC|work=Ann Arbor News|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030224215306/http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/aanews/basketball/index.ssf?%2Fstories%2Fwolverines%2F20020322martin_indictment_text.html|archivedate=February 24, 2003|url-status=dead}}
Jackson and King were the only two members of the Fab Five to stay at Michigan for their full four years of eligibility; Webber left after his sophomore year and Rose and Howard after their junior years. Jackson's best season at Michigan came in his senior year, as he averaged a team-high of nearly 16 points per game.
Professional career
Known for his time as one member of the Fab Five, Jackson was not drafted by an NBA team and never played in the league. He was cut in preseason by the New York Knicks before the 1995–96 season and cut by the Detroit Pistons before the 1996–97 season. He was drafted in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) by the Grand Rapids Hoops #35 in the 3rd round in 1995.
While with the Hoops, he won the 1995–96 CBA Rookie of the Year Award.{{Cite web |title=The Michigan Fab 5: Where are they now? |url=https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/sports/ncaab/2013/03/31/the-michigan-fab-5-where-are-they-now/2040593/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}{{cite web |title=Ray Jackson minor league basketball statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/p-jacksray001 |website=Stats Crew |access-date=February 28, 2025}}
He then played in France with Pro A team SIG Basket, in Argentina in the Liga Nacional de Básquet with Obras Sanitarias{{Cite web|language=es|url=http://www.laliganacional.com.ar/uploadsarchivos/guia_laliga.pdf|title=Liga Nacional de Básquetbol Guía Oficial 2015/2016|page=205}} (where he averaged 16 points per game) and Venezuela with Cocodrilos de Caracas.
In a February 10, 2007 article on Yahoo Sports, Jackson says that: "It took me a long time to get over the fact that I was the only one that didn't make it to the NBA from the Fab Five, but I'm over it because I'm back home and I'm happy with what I'm doing with my life."
Post-basketball career
Jackson lives in Austin, Texas, where he runs a moving company and Rise Up, a not-for-profit organization that assists children socially, educationally and on the basketball court.
References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071008080936/http://www.ruiaap.org/ Rise Up Inc. Academic Athletic Program]}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100418044313/http://stats.ath.umich.edu/basketball/basketstart.php University of Michigan Basketball Statistical Archive]
- [https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/p-jacksray001 Continental Basketball Association stats at Statscrew.com]
- [https://www.lnb.fr/fr/proa/joueurs/jackson-ray-A04583.html French league stats]
- [http://english.worldhoopstats.com/stats/lnb-ar/jackson-ray.html Argentine league stats at Worldhoopstats.com]
- [https://www.latinbasket.com/player/Ray_Jackson//Cocodrilos_de_Caracas/22088 Profile at Latinbasket.com]
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