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Dave Bing
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American basketball player and politician (born 1943)
OverviewAI-generated
Dave Bing is a male person from the United States who played basketball as a point guard. His professional career spanned from 1966 to 1978. He is recognized in the Basketball Hall of Fame collection.
Bing is also associated with music, with genres including jazz, pop, and film soundtracks. He is listed as a hip-hop artist on Last.fm. Additionally, he is an author with a work titled *Dave Bing: Attacking the Rim*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Thesportsdb, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Dave Bing : Attacking the Rim
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1903-05-03
- Active to
- 1977-10-14
Discography
- Ballad for Americans1940
- Star Dust1940
- Original Soundtrack Recording Of The Classic 1942 Film "Holiday Inn"1942
- The Road To Morocco / Ain't Got A Dime To My Name (Ho Ho Ho Ho Hum)1942
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive / There's A Fellow Waiting In Poughkeepsie1945
- Blue Skies1946
- St. Patrick’s Day1946
- Bing Crosby Sings Cole Porter Songs1949
- Christmas Greetings1949
- Sings Songs by George Gershwin1949
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,791
- Total plays
- 5,111
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dave+Bing">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
· 2020 · cited 17,360x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x
- Generative adversarial networks
· 2020 · cited 13,891x
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
· 2012 · cited 13,346x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,698x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Kenneth Cockrel Jr.
- Succeeded by
- Mike Duggan
- Born
- ( 1943-11-24 ) November 24, 1943 (age 82) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Yvette Bing
- Education
- Syracuse University
- Profession
- Professional athlete, businessman, politician
- Listed height
- 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
- Listed weight
- 180 lb (82 kg)
- High school
- Spingarn (Washington, D.C.)
- College
- Syracuse (1963–1966)
- Nba draft
- 1966 : 1st round, 2nd overall pick
- Drafted by
- Detroit Pistons
- Playing career
- 1966–1978
- Position
- Point guard
- Number
- 21, 44
- 1966 1975
- Detroit Pistons
- 1975 1977
- Washington Bullets
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Retired Basketball
- Position
- Point Guard
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Bing
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Baptists
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- point guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 84
- Image
- David Bing 3928ded5aacd10b21cded561668a0444 (1).jpg
- Height
- 190
- Residence
- Washington, D.C.
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1943-11-24
- Commons category
- Dave Bing
- drafted by
- Detroit Pistons
- end of work period
- 1978-00-00
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
David Bing (born November 24, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player, businessman and politician who served as the 74th mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
After starring at Syracuse University, Bing played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a point guard for the Detroit Pistons (1966–1975), Washington Bullets (1975–1977) and Boston Celtics (1977–78). During his career, he averaged over 20 points and six assists per game and made seven NBA All-Star Game appearances, winning the game's Most Valuable Player award in 1976. The Pistons celebrated his career accomplishments with the retirement of his #21 jersey. In addition, he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and named to the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team and the NBA 75th Anniversary All-Time Team.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dave Bing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.