Education
Beaver Country Day School.
Beaver Country Day School.
He played high school basketball at Beaver Country Day School in Brookline, Massachusetts. He set the National Collegiate Athletic Association record for games played (which has since broken) with 151 games in his four-year Kentucky Wildcats career. During his college career he appeared twice on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.
Following his college years he played for the National Basketball Association"s Boston Celtics and the International Basketball League"s Cincinnati Stuff.
In 2000 he signed with the Harlem Globetrotters. Turner rejoined the Wizards in 2005, helping them reach the play-offs.
Wayne Turner also played as an import (non-local) in the Italian team Andrea Costa Imola (September to December 2001), and in the Australasian National Basketball League for the Townsville Crocodiles (2002-2003), before his contract was terminated following charges laid in the United States. after police found an illegally possessed 9mm handgun, loaded with 12 rounds, in his rental car. Turner said the case was eventually dismissed in 2005.
He also signed a one-year deal (2007-2008) with the NBL"s New Zealand Breakers.
In September 2010, he returned to the University of Kentucky to finish his undergraduate degree, and joined the men"s basketball staff at his alma mater. Currently, Turner is the Director of Player Development for the men"s basketball team at the University of Louisville, working under his former college coach Rick Pitino. Wayne Turner is mentioned in Frank X. Walker"s poem "Death by Basketball," found in his volume of poetry, Affrilachia.
In 2008 he returned to the College of Business Administration as a member of the East Kentucky Miners.