Retired professional basketball player Danny Ferry is the general manager of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.

Son of former NBA center Bob Ferry, Danny Ferry began his basketball career in earnest at DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland. Under Morgan Wootten Ferry excelled at the high school level.

Ferry attended and played basketball for Duke University. Ferry played four years and graduated in 1989. In his senior season, Ferry won the Naismith, Oscar Robertson, and UPI national player of the year awards. During his college career, he went to the Final Four in 1986, 1988, and 1989, twice winning the MVP award for the East Regional. He was first team All-America in 1989 and second-team All-America in 1988. Ferry still holds Duke's all-time single game scoring record, scoring 58 points against Miami on December 10, 1988. He is among Duke's greatest players of all time, ranking 5th in career points, 5th in career rebounds, and 7th in career assists -- the only player in the top 10 in all three categories. Ferry's number 35 was retired in 1989 at the end of his senior season. In 2002, Ferry was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team honoring the fifty greatest players in Atlantic Coast Conference history.

After college, the Los Angeles Clippers drafted Ferry in the first round (second overall pick) of the 1989 NBA Draft; he did not want to play with the Clippers, and Ferry soon after-wards accepted an offer to play for the Italian league's Il Messaggero (now Virtus Roma) instead. Soon after Ferry went to Italy, his rights were traded, along with Reggie Williams, to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for high-scoring guard Ron Harper, two first-round draft picks and a second-round pick.

The Cavaliers signed Ferry to a 10-year guaranteed contract. He had a decent career in Cleveland, but he never became the type of star the Cavs were hoping for based on his outstanding play for Duke. His best season in Cleveland came in 1995–96, where he averaged 13.3 ppg. He had only one other season in which he averaged double figures.

The San Antonio Spurs signed Ferry as a free agent on August 10, 2000. Accepting a role as an off-the-bench shooter with the Spurs, Ferry played for San Antonio through the 2002-2003 season. He then worked in the Spurs front office from 2003-2005.

On June 27, 2005 the Cleveland Cavaliers signed Danny Ferry to a 5-year contract worth close to $10 million dollars as their eighth general manager. The position gave Ferry final say in all basketball operations.

• Duke jersey number #35 was retired

• 1989 USBWA College Player of the Year

• ACC Male Athlete of the Year (1988, 1989)

• Naismith College Player of the Year (1989)

• NBA Champion (2003, with Spurs)

• Total Points: 6,439 (7.0 per game)

• Total Rebounds: 2,550 (2.1 per game)

• Total Assits: 1,185 (1.3 per game)