Dave Bing "The Wizard" basketball video
I would be very happy if
Dave Bing will see this video :-).
Song: Kim
Waters -
Nightfall
David "
Dave" Bing (born
November 24, 1943, in
Washington, D.C.) is the mayor of
Detroit, Michigan, a businessman, and a retired
American professional basketball player who played 12 seasons in the
NBA, primarily for the
Detroit Pistons (1966-75). He was a seven-time All-Star.
Position: SG/PG
Height: 6 ft 3 inch (1,91 m)
Weight: 185 lb (84 kg)
College:
Syracuse
Number: #21
SHORT BASKETBALL
BIOGRAPHY:
Early Life
Bing was raised in northeast Washington, D.C. as a son of a bricklayer. At age five, Bing accidentally poked his left eye with a nail of a wooden horse that he improvised. The eye healed on its own with the family unable to afford an eye operation, leaving Bing with fuzzy vision since then.
Bing's career began in
1959 at
Spingarn High School in
Washington D.C., where he played in the footsteps of the great
Elgin Baylor who had set all the city scoring records playing there in 1954. After 3 straight Interhigh championship games Bing averaged 16.2 and 16.9 ppg in 61 and 62.re in 1954.
Bing was a three-year letter winner, allInter
High, All-Metro, and All-East member. In 1962, Bing was in
Parade magazine and made the All-American
Team.
College
Bing attended
Syracuse University and he led the Orangemen in scoring as a sophomore (
22.2) in 1964, as a junior (23.2) in
1965, and as a senior (28.4) in 1966. During his senior year, Bing was fifth in the nation in scoring and was Syracuse's first consensus All-American in 39 years. He was also named to
The Sporting News All-America
First Team and was named Syracuse
Athlete of the Year.
NBA
In 1966, Bing joined the NBA as a second overall first-round pick of the Detroit Pistons, where in his rookie year he scored 1,601 points (20.0 points per game) and was named the
NBA Rookie of the Year. The next year, he led the NBA in scoring with 2,142 points (27.1 points per game) in
1968.
He played in seven
NBA All-Star Games (1968,
1969, 19711976, and winning the
1976 NBA All-Star Game MVP Award) and was named to the
All-NBA First Team twice in 1968 and 1969. Bing averaged 22.6 points and 7.8 assists in his ten seasons with the Pistons. After his career with the Detroit Pistons, Bing went on to spend two years with the
Washington Bullets and one with the
Boston Celtics before retiring at the conclusion of the 19771978 season.
He averaged 20.3 points and six assists per game in his 12 NBA seasons and was awarded the
J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award in
1977.
Bing was elected to the
Basketball Hall of Fame in
1990. In
1996, he was named one of the
NBA's 50 Greatest Players.