{{Short description|American basketball player}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox NBA biography | name = Jeff Cook | image = Jeff Cook - Phoenix Suns.jpg | width = | caption = Cook in 1987 | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 10 | weight_lb = 215 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|10|21}} | birth_place = West Covina, California, U.S. | high_school = {{nowrap|Edgewood (West Covina, California)}} | college = Idaho State (1974–1978) | draft_year = 1978 | draft_round = 3 | draft_pick = 49 | draft_team = Kansas City Kings | career_start = 1978 | career_end = 1991 | career_number = 45, 44, 12 | career_position = Power forward / center | years1 = 1978–1979 | team1 = Washington Lumberjacks | years2 = {{nbay|1979|start}}–{{nbay|1982|end}} | team2 = Phoenix Suns | years3 = {{nbay|1982|end}}–{{nbay|1984|start}} | team3 = Cleveland Cavaliers | years4 = {{nbay|1982|end}}–{{nbay|1985|end}} | team4 = San Antonio Spurs | years5 = {{nbay|1985|end}} | team5 = Utah Jazz | years6 = 1986–1987 | team6 = Boston Livorno | years7 = {{nbay|1987|full=y}} | team7 = Phoenix Suns | years8 = 1989–1990 | team8 = Panathinaikos | years9 = 1990–1991 | team9 = AS Monaco | highlights = * First-team All-Big Sky (1978) * Second-team All-Big Sky (1977) | stats_league = NBA | stat1label = Points | stat1value = 2,734 (5.3 ppg) | stat2label = Rebounds | stat2value = 2,334 (4.5 rpg) | stat3label = Assists | stat3value = 707 (1.4 apg) }} '''Jeffrey James Cook''' (born October 21, 1956) is a retired American professional basketball player.

A 6'10" center from Idaho State University, Cook played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1979 to 1988 as a member of the Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, and Utah Jazz. He averaged 5.3 points and 4.5 rebounds in his NBA career.

==Career statistics== {{NBA player statistics legend}}

===NBA=== Source<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/cookje01.html|title=Jeff Cook NBA stats|website=Basketball Reference|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|accessdate=8 August 2025}}</ref>

====Regular season==== {{NBA player statistics start}} |- |style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1979}} |style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix |66|| ||13.7||.469||.000||.806||3.7||1.3||.4||.3||5.5 |- |style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1980}} |style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix |79|| ||'''27.7'''||.464||.000||.645||5.9||'''2.5'''||'''1.0'''||'''.7'''||'''8.5''' |- |style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1981}} |style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix |76||'''22'''||17.1||.422||.000||.664||4.0||1.3||.5||.3||5.1 |- |style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|{{nbay|1982}} |style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix |45||2||12.2||.430||.000||.759||2.9||1.3||.3||.3||3.6 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland |30||20||26.1||'''.537'''||.000||.760||'''6.9'''||1.5||.9||.6||7.1 |- |style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1983}} |style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland |'''81'''||21||24.1||.486||'''.500'''||.723||6.0||1.5||.8||.6||5.8 |- |style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|{{nbay|1984}} |style="text-align:left;"|Cleveland |18||3||24.4||.438||.000||.630||5.8||1.3||.3||.5||6.1 |- |style="text-align:left;"|San Antonio |54||2||15.7||.529||&ndash;||.811||3.9||.7||.5||.3||4.0 |- |style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|{{nbay|1985}} |style="text-align:left;"|San Antonio |34||0||10.5||.418||.000||.634||2.4||.6||.4||.3||2.4 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Utah |2||0||8.5||.500||&ndash;||'''1.000'''||2.5||.0||.0||.0||3.5 |- |style="text-align:left;|{{nbay|1987}} |style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix |33||0||10.9||.237||.000||.821||3.2||.4||.3||.2||1.5 |- class="sortbottom" |style="text-align:center;" colspan=2|Career |518||70||18.7||.462||.056||.716||4.5||1.4||.6||.4||5.3 |}

====Playoffs==== {{NBA player statistics start}} |- | style="text-align:left;"|1980 | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | '''7''' || || 14.0 || '''.667''' || &ndash; || '''.846''' || 3.0 || 1.0 || .6 || .3 || 7.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1981 | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | '''7''' || || '''29.4''' || .463 || '''1.000''' || .737 || '''6.7''' || '''1.6''' || .1 || .0 || '''9.3''' |- | style="text-align:left;"|1982 | style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix | '''7''' || || 6.4 || .500 || &ndash; || &ndash; || 1.3 || 1.0 || .3 || .3 || 1.1 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1985 | style="text-align:left;"|San Antonio | 5 || 0 || 19.6 || .500 || .000 || .680 || 5.8 || .8 || '''1.0''' || '''1.2''' || 7.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"|1986 | style="text-align:left;"|Utah | 4 || 0 || 5.3 || .250 || &ndash; || .750 || 1.3 || .5 || .0 || .0 || 1.3 |- class="sortbottom" |style="text-align:center;" colspan=2|Career |30||0||15.6||.509||.500||.757||3.7||1.0||.4||.3||5.6 |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{basketballstats|bbr=c/cookje01}}

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