Lee Mayberry


Orva Lee Mayberry Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player who spent seven seasons in the National Basketball Association.

Early career

Mayberry played high school basketball at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, where he led them to a state championship in 1988.
Mayberry played collegiately at the University of Arkansas and scored 1,940 points for the Razorbacks. Mayberry was a teammate of Todd Day and Oliver Miller, who also had lengthy NBA careers, and helped lead Arkansas to the 1990 Final Four in Denver, Colorado, where they lost in the national semifinals to Duke.

Professional career

Selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1st round of the 1992 NBA Draft, Mayberry played from 1992–1999 for the Bucks and Vancouver Grizzlies, averaging 5.1 points per game. For the first four years of his career, he played in 328 consecutive games, never missing a regular season game.
Mayberry also played for the US national team in the 1990 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.

Post NBA

In 2012 Mayberry was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. In an interview posted on January 10, 2012 Mayberry reviewed his playing days with the Razorbacks.
also disclosed that Mayberry was currently "...living in Tulsa, scouting for the Golden State Warriors of the NBA"
In 2014, Mayberry was hired by the University of Arkansas as an assistant coach for the men's basketball team, for head coach Mike Anderson, who was an assistant coach during Mayberry's playing days at Arkansas. After the 2017 season, Mayberry left the University of Arkansas, and accepted an assistant head coaching position at Watson Chapel High School, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Personal life

Mayberry's daughter, Taleya Mayberry, played college basketball for Tulsa University and professionally in Europe.