Thurl Bailey is a former professional basketball player who spent 12 years in the N.B.A with the Utah Jazz, and Minnesota Timberwolves, Euro League with Panionios in Greece and 3 years in Italy with Polti Cantu and Olympia Milano. He won the N.B.A.’s prestigious J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award for outstanding community service for the 1988-’89 season. Currently, Thurl leads a busy life as an international corporate and youth speaker. He is the host of the popular Thurl Talk podcast, an actor, singer/songwriter and works as a TV broadcast analysts for the Utah Jazz and AT&T SportsNet.