Douglas Dale Christie (born May 9, 1970 in Seattle, Washington) is a agency basketball player in the NBA. He presently plays for the Dallas Mavericks.

Christie attended Seattle's Rainier Beach High School and, in his senior month (1988), led a school's varsity men's five to RB's 1st-ever Wa State championship.

Christie so went in to Pepperdine University where he gained national exposure. He was drafted Seventeenth in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics. Nevertheless, because of contract difficulties, he never played for the Sonics & was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers later that season, in which he was utilized meagerly.

Inside 1994 the Lakers traded him to the New York Knicks. Once again, he was non played typically. Inside 1995 he was again traded mid-year, this instance to the Toronto Raptors. He stayed by owning a Bird of prey until a guide of the year inside 2000. By so Christie got picked higher his scoring & got been the uniform starter for the Bird of prey.

Around Sacramento, Christie became a extremely-popular streaming video player & developed into one of a league's better defenders, perennially known as to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. Within 2004, however, he was traded to the Orlando Magic for Cuttino Mobley. Unhappy all about the trade, Christie played sole two or three games prior to existence situated on the wounded listings sustaining a confutative injury (officially, bone spurs).

Late that year, when existence criticized per public & a media for non supporting a team & non possibly showing as much as games, he attack at Sorcerous management for non protecting him against a media. Notwithstanding, so-general manager John Weisbrod claimed that a Magic however wished to keep Christie for the next year, despite the latter's disapproval of the team.

A freshly general managers, Otis Smith and Dave Twardzik, apparantly had a different learn from towards Christie than Weisbrod did, when a team freed a dissatisfied guard in August 11, 2005 under the fresh NBA collective bargaining agreement a single-former amnesty clause. He signed a 1-annual locate the Dallas Mavericks shortly after.

At this period, the VH-1 reality TV show entitled The Christies is in a works, & may chronicle the each-day life of Christie and his married woman.