Education
Inglewood High School.
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Inglewood High School.
He later served as the first head coach of the National Basketball Association Doctorate-League"s Reno Bighorns. Jay previously worked as an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets, and he now serves as assistant coach for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. Humphries played on the top-ranked high school basketball team in the country in 1980. Humphries, a 6"3" guard, then played four seasons of college basketball for the University of Colorado.
Humphries was selected 13th overall by the Phoenix Suns in the 1984 National Basketball Association Draft.
He was traded to the Milwaukee Buckinghamshire in 1988. The Buckinghamshire traded him to the Utah Jazz prior to the 1992-1993 season in exchange for Blue Edwards.
Humphries began his basketball coaching career as an associate head coach in the Chinese College of Business Administration in 2001. In 1998 he joined a team of retired National Basketball Association players, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson and Adrian Dantley on a tour of China for a series of exhibition games against the Chinese national team
Foreign the 2014-2015 season, Humphries was hired by the Brooklyn Nets as an assistant to new head coach Lionel Hollins.
Humphries retired in 1995 as a member of the Boston Celtics. He holds career averages of 11.1 points and 5.5 assists per game.