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What Jerry Lucas Will Do for the Knicks, 1972

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Aug 14, 2021
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[Some New Yorkers never tire of extolling the trade that more than 50 years ago sent Dave DeBusschere to the Knicks. After all, this stroke of front-office genius was the catalyst that brought New York its first NBA championship in 1970. But hardly ever mentioned in the same breath is the May 1971 trade that sent center-forward Jerry Lucas to shore up t…

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