Dick McGuire

Dick McGuire

No. 15
Guard
Personal information
Date of birth	January 25, 1926(1926-01-25)
Place of birth	The Bronx, New York[1]
Nationality	American
Date of death	February 3, 2010(2010-02-03) (aged 84)
Place of death	Huntington, New York
High school	La Salle Academy
Listed height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight	180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
College	St. John's (1943–1944; 1946–1949)
NBA Draft	1949 / Round: 1 / Pick: 7th overall
Selected by the New York Knicks
Pro career	1949–1960
Career history
As player:
1949–1957	New York Knicks
1957–1960	Detroit Pistons
As coach:
1959–1963	Detroit Pistons
1965–1968	New York Knicks
Career highlights and awards
7× NBA All-Star (1951–1952, 1954–1956, 1958–1959) All-NBA Second Team (1951) #15 Retired by the New York Knicks 2× Haggerty Award winner (1944, 1949)
Career statistics
Points	5,921 (8.0 ppg)
Rebounds	2,784 (4.2 rpg)
Assists	4,205 (5.7 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as player

Richard Joseph "Dick" McGuire (January 26, 1926 – February 3, 2010) was an American professional basketball player and coach.

One of the premier guards of the 1950s, McGuire spent eleven seasons in the NBA (1949-60), eight with the New York Knicks and three with the Detroit Pistons. McGuire led the league in assists during his rookie season with a then-record 386 assists,^[2] and was among the league's top ten playmakers for ten of his eleven seasons.^[3] He was an NBA All-Star seven times (1951,'52, '54-'56, '58, '59), and was named to the All-NBA Second Team in 1951.^[3]

McGuire became player-coach for the Pistons in his last season (1959-60), and coached them until 1963. He also coached the Knicks for three seasons, beginning in 1965. He compiled a 197-260 coaching record.^[4] McGuire was working as a senior consultant for the Knicks when he died on February 3, 2010 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm at age 84.^[5]

McGuire's brother Al was also a prominent figure in basketball who coached Marquette University to the 1977 NCAA basketball championship. They are the only pair of brothers inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.^[2] His nephew, Allie, also played in the NBA.

The Knicks retired #15 a second time for McGuire in 1992 (six years earlier, it had been retired for Earl Monroe).

References

1. ^ Knicks Hall of Famer Dick McGuire dies at 84 from USA Today 3 February 2010
2. ^ ^{a b} Litsky, Frank; Weber, Bruce (February 4, 2010), "Dick McGuire, a Fixture With the Knicks for More Than Half a Century, Dies at 84", The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/sports/basketball/04mcguire.html?hpw 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Basketball-Reference.com: Dick McGuire". http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mcguidi01.html. Retrieved 2010-02-05. 
4. ^ http://www.databasebasketball.com/coaches/coachpage.htm?coachid=MCGUIDI01
5. ^ "McGuire dies at 84". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4883811. Retrieved 2010-02-05. 

External links

• BasketballReference.com: Dick McGuire (as coach)
• BasketballReference.com: Dick McGuire (as player)
• Dick McGuire on the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Macguire, Dick
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1926-01-26
Place of birth	The Bronx, New York
Date of death	2010-02-03
Place of death	Huntington, New York