Career
He founded the Harlem Road Kings Comedy Basketball Team, based out of Morristown, Tennessee, which delivered an anti-drug message to kids around the South. He later built the minority-owned construction firm, Team American College of Physicians Construction Limited liability company which in 2008 was a contractor in the Richmond, Virginia area. He has also remains involved in sports as one of the top sponsors for the Colonial Athletic Association basketball conference.
After finishing school at Carson-Newman College, Clay went to work for their coaching staff
During the next two years, he went to work for Middle Tennessee State and was later hired as Associate Head Coach for Bristol University in Tennessee, where he was involved in recruiting, scouting, game prepping and developing the team’s post position players. He then went to Milligan College in Johnson, Tennessee, where he coached the basketball team to a 27-9 record, the team best record since 1948.
Clay teamed with former National Basketball Association great, John Lucas and formed STAND (Students Taking Action Not Drugs), a series of summer sports camps for at-risk children in the Bristol, Virginia area. STAND started as a crisis center that later expanded services to include a hot line for teens that offered crisis and emergency counseling as well as peer support groups.
This "led to programs that were put in place when the National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association Players Association began to deal with drug issues." Clay also founded the Harlem Road Kings Comedy Basketball Team, based out of Morristown, Tennessee, whose message was to talk to kids about staying off drugs and in school.
Clay entered the construction business as a government subcontractor "to clean up debris along the North Carolina coast after two hurricanes". After years of working in residential construction, the housing bubble pushed Clay to search for other opportunities which led him to Virginia’s program for small, womenand minority-owned businesses. Clay currently serves on the board of American Heart Association, has served on the board of VCU Athletics and STAND (Students Taking Action Not Drugs).
He has been involved in Habitat for Humanity, Work with wounded Veterans, and the Colonial Athletic Association.
Most recently, his new initiative is a prisoner re-entry program that he will launch here in the New Orleans area where workers, including felons, will be trained to perform construction tasks and give them the training to be successful. In 2005, Clay was charged with allegedly "misus $11,000 in federal money" in 2000 meant for an affordable housing project
A federal court jury acquitted Clay of the crime in 2006.