Donald Ray Chaney is an American former professional basketball player and coach, most notable for his long stints as a player on the Boston Celtics. He was the first African-American NBA Coach of the Year.
Chaney played basketball in college for the University of Houston, where he was a teammate of future Basketball Hall-of-Famer Elvin Hayes. Chaney played all 40 minutes of the famed "Game of the Century" at the Astrodome. That year Chaney became the first-round pick (12th overall) of the Boston Celtics in the 1968 NBA draft; he was also drafted by the Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association.
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