However, DeBusschere was injured during his second season and only played in 15 games, resulting in the Pistons finishing with a disappointing record of 23-59.

DeBusschere responded with an ultimatum: deposit $ 500, 000 with the league as a " performance bond " within four days to cover expenses or be shut down.

During that era the Knicks boasted one of the most storied starting fives in history in Bill Bradley, Dave DeBusschere, Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, and Dick Barnett ( later replaced by Earl Monroe ).

Notable NBA players in history include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Shaquille O ' Neal, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Bill Walton, George Mikan, Bob Pettit, Bob Cousy, Pete Maravich, Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Dave DeBusschere, Jerry Lucas, Earl Monroe, Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Elvin Hayes, Oscar Robertson and Jerry West, whose particular silhouette is featured on the NBA's logo.

Unfortunately, an ill timed trade was made during the 1968 season which sent the popular home grown DeBusschere to the New York Knicks for Howard Komives and Walt Bellamy both who were in the later stages of their career.

During the 1968-1969 season, DeBusschere was traded to the New York Knicks for Walt Bellamy and Howard Komives.

DeBusschere became the key player that then led the Knicks to two NBA titles.

He later became the ABA's commissioner, as well as the assistant coach and director of basketball operation of the Knicks during the 1980s, when DeBusschere drafted fellow Knicks legend Patrick Ewing.

DeBusschere became a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.

* 14-Dave DeBusschere, 62, NBA basketball player.

At one point DeBusschere was the youngest player-coach in the history of the NBA.

David Albert DeBusschere ( October 16, 1940 – May 14, 2003 ) was an American NBA and major league baseball player and coach in the NBA.

In 1996, DeBusschere was named as one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history.

Prior to the season the Colonels and the ABA's commissioner, Dave DeBusschere, challenged the NBA to have its champion, the Golden State Warriors, face the Colonels in a championship series, the winner of which would get $ 1 million.

* Dave DeBusschere, NBA Hall of Fame, played basketball for the Detroit Pistons and the New York Knicks, former Coach of the Detroit Pistons ; also played professional baseball for the Chicago White Sox

In May 2003, Dave DeBusschere collapsed on a Manhattan street when he suffered a fatal heart attack.

Dave DeBusschere, one of the stars of the New York Knicks championship teams, moved from his job as Vice President and GM of the ABA's New York Nets in 1975 to become the last commissioner of the ABA and facilitate the ABA-NBA merger in 1976.

DeBusschere was later the author of a book entitled The Open Man, which was a chronicle of the New York Knicks ' 1969-1970 championship season.

*** The New York Knicks, for Hall of Famer Dave DeBusschere.

* 1940 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player ( d. 2003 )

Some of the superstars who played for the team included Dave DeBusschere, Dave Bing, Jimmy Walker, and Bob Lanier.

DeBusschere was born in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Austin Catholic Preparatory School.

DeBusschere spent his best years in New York.

DeBusschere retired in 1974.

In 1962 DeBusschere was signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent.

DeBusschere is interred at Saint Joseph's Church Cemetery in Garden City, Nassau County, New York.

Players who were named to the NBA's 50 Greatest Players list include Charles Barkley, Dave DeBusschere, Elvin Hayes, Jerry Lucas, Kevin McHale, and Karl Malone.

In August, 1975, ABA Commissioner Dave DeBusschere suddenly awarded the franchise to another group in Memphis due to apparent financial problems involving the Baltimore owners.

On October 26, 1975, ABA Commissioner DeBusschere got word that one of the Claws ' banks had yanked its line of credit.

A brace of pistols, holstered on belts, hung from a peg, along with ammunition pouches.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

Probably a larger percentage of Virginians and South Carolinians remain unreconstructed than elsewhere, with Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama following along after them.

When the Revolution broke out, he, along with Jefferson and Jay, abandoned his career at the bar, with considerable financial sacrifice.

Dictionaries, as we have seen, still cite this government, along with the Articles of Confederation of 1781, as an example of a confederacy.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed, and the plantain lilies along the west side of the house.

The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Swift, in the Dublin edition of A Preface to the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction, indicated his feelings by including Molesworth, along with Toland, Tindal, and Collins, in the group of those who, like Burnet, are engaged in attacking all Convocations of the clergy.

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.

A horse needed twenty pounds of food a day but the infantryman got along with two pounds.

along the Danube and among the Carpathians, in alliance with the Emperor Joseph's armies ; ;

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

The selective and directional qualities of basic value-orientations are clearly evident in these data: the `` success-oriented '' students choose vocational preparation, the `` other-directed '' choose goals of social adjustment ( `` getting along with people '' ), the `` intellectuals '' choose a liberal arts emphasis.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.