Post-basketball career

Currently, he is one of the hosts of The Best Damn Sports Show Period on Fox Sports Network. Salley hosted The John Salley Block Party, a radio morning show on Los Angeles station 100.3 The Beat from May 2005 - 2006.

Salley will join the cast of the reality competition show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, which airs on June 1, 2009.

In 2007, Salley appeared in the ABC reality television series Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race, featuring a dozen celebrities in a stock car racing competition. In the first round of competition, Salley matched up against professional wrestler John Cena and tennis star Serena Williams.

For a short time, Salley provided analysis for NBC's NBA Showtime.

In 2006, Salley was named the Commissioner of the American Basketball Association.

In 2004 he was part of the panel of celebrity judges in the TBS Superstation show He's a Lady.

For a short time in the late 1990s, Salley had a late night TV talk show. It did not do well in the ratings. He is now the host of the new hit talk show that comes live from a club, Ballers.

In the fall of 1998, Salley also hosted the game show I Can't Believe You Said That, which aired on the Fox Family Channel. During that time, he also guest-starred as a panelist on Hollywood Squares.

John Salley also has a role in Bad Boys and Bad Boys 2, as a thick-glassed computer hacking nerd who gets out of jail because he helps crack files for the Miami Police Department.

Salley has also starred in the Disney Channel original movie, The Ultimate Christmas Present as a tall elf.

In 1996, Salley starred as a veteran basketball player alongside Whoopi Goldberg in the film Eddie, about a fan who takes over as coach of the New York Knicks.

In 2001, Salley made an appearance in the Luther Vandross music video, Take You Out.

He has appeared as a celebrity guest on episodes of Hollywood Squares.

In 2009 he appeared on the reality game show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!

Personal life

Salley is a devoted vegan and has appeared on PETA's testimonial videos.