Dave DeBusschere Dead
 

Breaking news on ESPN.com. No link.

Who??

HoF basketball player and former pitcher in the White Sox organization.

I remembered watching him, along with Willis and Frazier, on the 1969-1970 Knicks. :(

Damn Anrhy, you are old...

Why do you think Anrhy likes the Civil War so much? Because the sucker fought in it!

He was also commissioner of the ABA.

Hmm, the Knicks and the White Sox from 40 years ago... no wonder I didn't know of him. I'm not trying to be mean, I just don't understand why this is "breaking news."

Anytime a former star athlete passes away it seems to be breaking news and is tragic. He is a Hall of Famer and member of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players. It would be the same for the death of a NFL Hall of Famer who played for the Packers of the 60s.

Todd

I know him more for his time with the Pistons. He was a player/coach at age 25 or something like that.

Wasn't he also a GM or something for the Knicks later on?

He also invented the 9 volt battery.

No, that was the father of the guy from the Monkees.

Snicker.

Actually, I wasn't that far off with the GM comment:

In 1982 DeBusschere returned to the Knicks and was appointed executive vice president and director of basketball operations. He retained the post until the start of the 1986-87 season.

Do you know what the mother of the guy from the Monkees invented?

Artifically manufactured boy-bands that would someday become the scourge of Western Civilzation?

God Rest his soul .

Yep, White Out.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I thought it was the father, though, not the mother. Or maybe it was the Monkee's uncle, har har!

That's why I snickered :)

And what did the son of that mother pioneered?

disco

dola...

or maybe it was a sythesizer

dola^2...

or was it kiddie porn. I forget. But he was from Texas, so it was probably colossal, whatever it was.

dola^2...

actually, this should be dola^2, cuz it is the fourth post, but I digress

Music videos. Thanks for playing AKnightofSomething. :p

This thread hurts my head.

Unfortunately one of his former Yale teamates who is a friend of mine died as well. I attended his Funeral on Monday.