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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DeBusschere left the Sox, saying, "I didn't want to stay in a business dumb enough to do that," and joined basketball's Detroit Pistons. At the age of 24, he became the youngest player-coach in the history of the NBA...
DeBusschere didn't enter the game until the second quarter, made just one shot in four attempts and collected only three rebounds. This from a man who, in the seventh game of the 1970 NBA finals, dashed the Lakers' championship hopes by banging in 18 points and ripping down 17 rebounds against the likes of Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain...
Things changed radically for DeBusschere in 1968, when the Pistons traded him to the Knicks for Walt Bellamy. The Knicks were barely playing .500 basketball. They hadn't finished first or second in their division in ten years, and had never won the NBA championship...
...DeBusschere's first full season with the Knicks, the team compiled the best won-lost record in the NBA with a 60-22 record and went on to take the crown. In the five full years DeBusschere has been with the club, the Knicks have been to the Eastern Conference finals each year and have pocketed the NBA championship twice...
...Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks advanced to the Eastern Conference finals in the NBA playoffs with victories last night...