David "Dave" Bing (born November 24, 1943, in Washington, D.C.) is the mayor of Detroit, Michigan, a businessman, and a retired American professional basketball player who played 12 seasons in the NBA, primarily for the Detroit Pistons (1966-75). He was a seven-time All-Star.
His #21 was retired by the Detroit Pistons, and in 1996 he was named as one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of all time.
He was elected mayor of Detroit in a special electi...
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David "Dave" Bing (born November 24, 1943, in Washington, D.C.) is the mayor of Detroit, Michigan, a businessman, and a retired American professional basketball player who played 12 seasons in the NBA, primarily for the Detroit Pistons (1966-75). He was a seven-time All-Star.
His #21 was retired by the Detroit Pistons, and in 1996 he was named as one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of all time.
He was elected mayor of Detroit in a special election on May 5, 2009 and was sworn in on May 11, 2009. Bing won the full-term mayoral election on November 3, 2009, defeating challenger Tom Barrow.
Bing was raised in northeast Washington, D.C. as a son of a bricklayer. At age five, Bing accidentally poked his left eye with a nail of a wooden horse that he improvised. The eye healed on its own with the family unable to afford an eye operation, leaving Bing with fuzzy vision since then.
Bing's career began in 1959 at Spingarn High School in Washington D.C., where he played in the footsteps of the...
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