Background
His father Anthony McGee played basketball at Long Beach State.
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His father Anthony McGee played basketball at Long Beach State.
He resigned as assistant coach on October 23, 2015. He is the figure at the center of the University of Louisville basketball scandal. McGee"s family has a history of playing college basketball.
He averaged 22.3 points, 4.2 assists and 3.7 steals per game as a senior at Canyon Springs High School in Moreno Valley, California.
McGee was the starting point guard for the 2008-2009 Louisville Cardinals men"s basketball team He says he chose Louisville because "Louisville is the best college sports town in the country, hands down, and Coach Pitino is the best coach in college.
I would have been dumb to go anywhere else."
Over the course of his high school and college careers, McGee suffered many, sometimes severe, symptoms of what was identified in college as sickle cell trait. Throughout his playing career, he took IVs in the locker room before every game, and a trainer was available with oxygen on the bench at all times to combat the athletically induced symptoms.
After retiring from play after one professional season in Germany, McGee returned to Louisville as a graduate assistant on Rick Pitino"s staff in 2010.
McGee was promoted to director of basketball operations at Louisville in 2012. After the 2013-2014 season, he left Louisville to become an assistant at UMKC under former Louisville assistant Kareem Richardson. Based on this allegation and a corresponding investigation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Louisville voluntarily withdrew from post-season play for the 2015-2016 season.
