Lawrence Curtis Demic (born June 27, 1957) is an American former
professional basketball player for the
New York Knicks in the
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...
(NBA). He played three seasons with the Knicks from 1979 through 1982. Demic played
college basketball
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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
Philippine Basketball Association
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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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1957 births
Living people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in the Philippines
American men's basketball players
Arizona Wildcats men's basketball players
Basketball players from Gary, Indiana
Centers (basketball)
Crispa Redmanizers players
Detroit Spirits players
New York Knicks players
Philippine Basketball Association imports
Power forwards (basketball)
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