John Salley is an American former basketball player and currently an actor and talk show host. Salley was drafted into the Detroit Pistons where he played for them for six years. He was traded to the Miami Heat for three years, followed by the Toronto Raptors for another year. He played for the Chicago Bulls for a ten day contract and then spent a month with the Panathinaikos. He played for two more years for the Los Angeles Lakers before retiring in 2000.
In 1995, Salley began to take on acting roles, such as Fletcher in the Bad Boys films and also appeared in Malcolm & Eddie, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Son of the Beach, Mr. 3000, Black Dynamite, Something Like Business, Jane the Virgin, and L.A.'s Finest.
For Disney, he portrayed Nate Wilson in Eddie, Crumpet the Elf in The Ultimate Christmas Present, appeared as himself in Naughty or Nice on The Wonderful World of Disney, D. Freak in Confessions of a Shopaholic, and Darius King in Sneakerella.