Kevin Maurice Johnson (born March 4, 1966 in Sacramento, California) is a retired American basketball point guard who played for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns. Basketball career Johnson attended Sacramento High School where he starred in both basketball and baseball all four years, leading the state in scoring as a senior (32.5 ppg). He chose to play basketball exclusively on the college level and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he starred for four seasons, leaving there as the school's all-time leader in assists, steals, and scoring (since eclipsed by Lamond Murray. He was also the first player in the Pac-10 Conference to post a triple-double and earned first team all-conference honors in both his junior and senior seasons, where he averaged 17.2 points and 5.0 assists in his final campaign. His number 11 is retired. Originally drafted in 1986 to play professional baseball with the Oakland Athletics