Key attended
Atholton High School in
Columbia, Maryland, and was named the 1986
Howard County Player of the Year. He was a four-year letter winner at
Boston University (1986–90), garnering
America East Conference Player of the Year honors in 1990. He also received the Lou Cohen Award as BU's Most Valuable Player the same year. In 1990, Key was close to making the roster of the
Los Angeles Clippers and then played for the
San Jose Jammers in the 1990–91
Continental Basketball Association (CBA) season, before taking his game overseas. He went on to play until 2002 with stints in
Austria (
BK Klosterneuburg),
Australia (
Gold Coast Rollers),
Germany (
SV Tübingen,
Steiner Bayreuth,
Rhöndorfer TV,
BSG Ludwigsburg,
SG Braunschweig) and
France (
Étendard de Brest,
Saint Quentin). He made three appearances in the
German Bundesliga All-Star Game during his professional career. He resigned in September 2010. In January 2011, he became head coach of the
Gießen 46ers in the German Basketball Bundesliga. In June 2011, he left Gießen for fellow Bundesliga side
Neckar Riesen Ludwigsburg, where he served as an assistant coach, before being promoted to the head coaching position in December 2011. He was relieved of his duties in January 2013. In February 2014, Key was hired as an assistant coach by the
Connecticut Sun of the
WNBA, but returned to Germany for the 2014–15 season to take over the head coaching job at
ProB outfit Licher BasketBären. After one year at the helm, he was appointed assistant coach of the Gießen 46ers in 2015. In between the seasons in Germany, he served an assistant coach of the
Indiana Fever of the
Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in 2016 and 2017. In May 2018, Key was named assistant coach of German Bundesliga club
S.Oliver Würzburg. On June 3, 2022, Key signed as head coach with
Eisbären Bremerhaven of the German
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