Complex sentence: He later became ABA's commissioner, as well as the assistant coach and director of basketball operation of the Knicks during the 1980s when DeBusschere drafted fellow Knicks legend Patrick Ewing.
Split into simpler sentences: He later became ABA's commissioner, as well as the assistant coach and director of basketball operation of the Knicks during the 1980s. During this time DeBusschere drafted fellow Knicks legend Patrick Ewing.