Razflections » NBA http://www.razflections.com Reflections on Business, Life, and Pursuing your Purpose Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:04:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 From NBA to Mayor of Detroit http://www.razflections.com/2010/01/from-nba-to-mayor-of-detroit.html http://www.razflections.com/2010/01/from-nba-to-mayor-of-detroit.html#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:18:54 +0000 Raz http://razflections.com/?p=2364 dave_bing_victory-300x339

When he reached retirement age, Dave Bing got himself a job he never wanted.
Mayor of Detroit? He wanted no part of it. “I really didn’t want him to do it,” his wife, Yvette, says.
“None of us wanted him to do it,” adds one of his three daughters, Cassaundra.
For years Bing’s old Syracuse roommate, Jim Boeheim, now the Orange’s coach, would ask him about going into politics, and Bing would reply, “I’m not crazy.”
Is he crazy now? He wonders sometimes. He admits this with a half grin and a gleam in his eye, as though he might ask for a recount of the elections he won.

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