Lawrence Curtis Demic (born June 27, 1957) is an American former professional basketball player for the New York Knicks in the

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(NBA). He played three seasons with the Knicks from 1979 through 1982. Demic played

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for the Arizona Wildcats, where he was an All-Pac-10 first team selection in 1979. He was drafted in the 1979 NBA draft in the first round with the ninth overall pick by New York. In 1983, he played for the

Crispa Redmanizers The Crispa Redmanizers were a multi-titled Filipino basketball team that played in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) from 1975 to 1984. It was one of the nine founding teams of the PBA, winning a total of thirteen PBA championships, i ...

in the Open Conference of the

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, teaming up with the legendary

Billy Ray Bates Billy Ray Bates (born May 31, 1956) is a retired American professional basketball player. Bates played shooting guard at McAdams High in Mississippi and attended Kentucky State University. Bates played four seasons in the National Basketball A ...

to win the championship and the coveted Grand Slam for the Redmanizers.

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