Craig Shelton
Craig Anthony Shelton is a retired American basketball player. He played in parts of two seasons in the National Basketball Association.
Shelton, a 6'7" forward from Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., played college basketball with his high school teammate John Duren at Georgetown University from 1976 to 1980. For his college career, Shelton scored 1,409 points and collected 691 rebounds.
After the close of his college career, Shelton was drafted in the second round of the 1980 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. He played for the Hawks for the 1980–81 NBA season, and played 4 games of the 1981–82 season before being waived. He would play the remainder of the season in the Continental Basketball Association for the Atlantic City Hi-Rollers and Lancaster Lightning. He then played several seasons in Italy.
