Dick McGuire
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Richard Joseph "Dick" McGuire (born January 25, 1926 in Rockaway, New York) is a former pro basketball player and coach. He is the brother of college coaching great Al McGuire. His clever ball-handling earned him the nickname, "Tricky Dick."
McGuire played basketball at St. John's before and after World War II and played five games for Dartmouth as part of a U.S. Navy training program.
He was the first player chosen by the New York Knicks in the 1949 NBA Draft.
One of the premier guards of the 1950s, McGuire spent eleven seasons in the NBA (1949-60), eight with the Knicks and three with the Detroit Pistons. He was an NBA All-Star seven times (1951-52, 1954-56, 1958-59).
McGuire became player-coach for the Pistons in his last season, 1959-60, and coached them until 1963.
He succeeded Harry Gallatin as Knicks head coach on November 29, 1965, and has remained with Knicks ever since. On December 27, 1967, McGuire and Red Holzman exchanged positions with Holzman becoming head coach and McGuire taking over as chief scout and assistant coach. Since 2004 he has been the Senior Basketball Advisor to the Knicks.
He compiled a 197-260 coaching record in the NBA.
McGuire is a member of both the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame and Walk of Fame. He is enshrined in the St. John's University Athletic Hall of Fame, the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame and the New York City Sports Hall of Fame. In 1990 he was a charter inductee into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. The Knicks have named their award for significant contributions to the organization the "Dick McGuire Award" in his honor; he won it in 1986.
Dick McGuire was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1993. He and his brother Al (who were Knicks teammates in the 1950s) are the only brothers enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
