found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed December 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bing, David; basketball player, Hall of Fame athlete, entrepreneur, civic leader; born 24 November 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; attended Syracuse University and was named an All-American (1966); drafted by the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft (1966), earning the NBA's Rookie of the Year award; the second season lead the NBA in scoring; traded to the Washington Bullets (1975), made the 1976 All-Star team; spent one year with the Boston Celtics, retired in 1977-78; formed Bing Steel, and by the 1990s, the Bing Group became one of the largest black-owned industrial corporations in the nation; honors include the Schick Achievement Award for post-basketball success (1990), the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and one of the Fifty Greatest Players in NBA history (1996))
