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{{Short description|American basketball player and coach}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Ray Tolbert
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| weight_lb = 225
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|09|10}}
| birth_place = [[Anderson, Indiana]], U.S.
| high_school = Madison Heights (Anderson, Indiana)
| college = [[Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball|Indiana]] (1977–1981)
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* [[List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball champions|NCAA champion]] ([[1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|1981]])
* Fourth-team [[Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team|''Parade'' All-American]] (1977)
* [[McDonald's All-American]] (1977)
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{{MedalGold |[[1979 Pan American Games|1979 San Juan]] | [[Basketball at the 1979 Pan American Games|Team competition]]}}
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'''Ray Lee Tolbert''' (born September 10, 1958) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player who was selected by the [[New Jersey Nets]] in the first round (18th pick overall) of the [[1981 NBA draft]]. A {{Height|ft=6|in=9}} [[Power forward (basketball)|power forward]] from [[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Indiana University]], Tolbert played in five NBA seasons for six different teams. He played for the Nets, [[Seattle SuperSonics]], [[Detroit Pistons]], [[New York Knicks]], [[Los Angeles Lakers]] and [[Atlanta Hawks]].
Tolbert attended [[Madison Heights High School]] in [[Anderson, Indiana]]. He was named to the inaugural [[McDonald's All-American]] team, which played in the 1977 [[Capital Classic (all-star game)|Capital Classic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Origin of the McDonalds All American Game|date=February 26, 2003|work=ESPN|url=http://a.espncdn.com/ncb/mcdonaldsaa03/origin.html|access-date=April 3, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Prep Al-America revealed|date=March 20, 1977|work=The Herald Journal|page=14|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122188192/mcdonalds-all-american-high-school-bask/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=April 3, 2023}}</ref> During the senior year of his collegiate career in 1981, starters Tolbert, [[Landon Turner (basketball)|Landon Turner]], [[Isiah Thomas]], [[Randy Wittman]], and [[Ted Kitchel]] led Indiana to its [[1980–81 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|fourth NCAA championship]] and Coach [[Bob Knight]]'s second.
In his NBA career, he played in 261 games and scored a total of 928 points.
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