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James Edwards: The NBA’s Next Super Giant? 1979

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Aug 24, 2022
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[James Edwards is mostly remembered today as the stoic seven-footer with the fu Manchu who came off the bench for the Bad Boy Detroit Pistons of the late 1980s. But Edwards had four previous NBA stops before arriving in Motown, the most ballyhooed of which was with the Indiana Pacers (1978-1982). In fact, Slick Leonard, the Pacers’ not-so-smooth head co…

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