Education
Saint Louis University.
Saint Louis University.
A 6"8" center from Saint Louis University, Ferry was selected by the Saint Louis Hawks with the seventh pick of the 1959 National Basketball Association Draft. Ferry played ten seasons in the National Basketball Association with the Hawks, Detroit Pistons and Baltimore Bullets, scoring 5,780 points and grabbing 3,343 rebounds. He later had a brief stint on The National Basketball Association on National Broadcasting Company as an "Insider" alongside Peter Vescey in the early 1990s.
Ferry"s son Danny had a thirteen-year National Basketball Association playing career and later was general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks.