Career
Beginning the 2006-2007 National Basketball Association season, Delaney had officiated in 1,182 regular season games, 120 playoff games, and seven National Basketball Association Finals games. In addition, Delaney was assigned to the 1998 National Basketball Association All-Star Game. He wore the uniform number 26.
Delaney is a 1973 graduate of New Jersey City University with a Bachelor of Science degree in criminology.
He is a 2006 inductee into NJCU"s Athletics Hall of Fame. After finishing college, Delaney joined the New Jersey State Police.
During the mid-1970s, Delaney worked as an undercover officer as part of an operation known as "Project Alpha". While serving as a police officer, Delaney was also a high school basketball referee in New Jersey from 1972 to 1982 and later officiated in the Continental Basketball Association (College of Business Administration) for four years before being selected by scouts to officiate in the National Basketball Association, beginning in 1987.
In the early 1980s, Delaney retired as a law enforcement officer and devoted full-time to becoming a basketball referee.
In 2008, Delaney wrote about his undercover experience in Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob, with co-author Dave Scheiber. He completed a Master of Arts degree in leadership from Saint Mary"s College of California.
