 The 6-foot-7 Gettys was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the fifth round of the 1985 NBA draft, but never played in the NBA.He was a member of Bill Musselman's 1987–88 Albany Patroons team of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) that posted a remarkable 48–6 record on its way to winning the CBA championship.Gettys, who has a law degree and has worked as an attorney in Texas, later became an assistant coach at Houston under his former teammate, Drexler, and worked as an ESPN basketball analyst.