Gregory Scott Lee (December 12, 1951 – September 21, 2022) was an American professional basketball and volleyball player.

He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, winning back-to-back national championships as their starting point guard in 1972 and 1973.

[1] His father, Marvin, played center for the UCLA Bruins under coach Wilbur Johns.

[2] Lee attended Reseda Charter High School,[1] where he was an All-American and named Los Angeles City Section player of the year in basketball.

[2] Later that season, UCLA's stretch of consecutive national titles was stopped at seven after North Carolina State defeated the Bruins 80–77 in double overtime in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament.

[18][19] In his 2016 autobiography, Walton blamed Curtis for both the tournament loss as well as earlier defeats in the season, and lamented Lee's lack of playing time.

[21] The next season, he moved to the NBA, joining Walton on the Portland Trail Blazers and averaging 1.2 points and 2.2 assists in five games.

[2][21] At the urging of former UCLA player John Ecker, Lee then played in West Germany for four seasons with TuS 04 Leverkusen.

However, his older brother Jon was an accomplished beach volleyball player with a "AAA" rating.

It was in Santa Monica in 1972 that Lee met what came to be his longtime beach partner Jim Menges.

[24] The two were partners on and off over the summers of the next two seasons while Menges completed his volleyball career at UCLA and Lee played professional basketball for a couple of years.

[3] The record stood for 16 years until tied by the pairing of Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes.

In 1977, he left the sand to play professional basketball in Europe, returning to Southern California two years later.

He entered a total of 62 opens, reaching the finals 39 times while collecting 29 tournament titles.