Brent Petway is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on May 12, 1985 in Warner Robins, Georgia, United States. Petway took home the first NBA D-League Slam Dunk Contest at the D-League Dream Factory Friday Night on February 15, the 2007 NBA All-Star Game Weekend. Petway beat the competition’s Idaho Stampede teammate, Mike Taylor in the finals, using an alley-oop, through the legs dunk. In October of 2010 the player was a part of the world-renowned Harlem Globetrotters, under the name of Thunder Petway.
In June 2013, he joined the Greek EuroLeague team Olympiacos on a two-year deal.
On July 30, 2015, he signed a one-year deal with Dinamo Sassari.
Petway was a participant in training camps alongside the NBA team called the Portland Trail Blazers in the autumn of 2007. Petway participated for the NBA D-League during the 2007-08 season for the Idaho Stampede, a development team of the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle SuperSonics. He was a member of in the 2009 Memphis Grizzlies Summer League team before returning with the Stampede for the 2008-09 season.
In his time at Michigan Petway, he was the winner of his first NIT Tournament championship in 2004. Petway scored an average of 5.8 scores per match over his time at Michigan.
He played on the Toronto Raptors Summer League team in 2009. He then moved to the Greek League club Ilysiakos. He joined the French League club JA Vichy in 2010. He then moved to the Greek League club Rethymno Aegean.