page_title: Dave Bing
section_title: NBA career
hierarchical_section_title: Dave Bing / NBA career
caption_attribution_description: English: Former NBA player Dave Bing while playing for the Detroit Pistons.
context_page_description: David Bing is an American retired Hall of Fame basketball player, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and businessman.
  After starring at Syracuse University, Bing played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association as a point guard for the Detroit Pistons, Washington Bullets, and Boston Celtics. During his career, he averaged over 20 points and six assists per game and made seven NBA All-Star Game appearances, winning the game's Most Valuable Player award in 1976. The Pistons celebrated his career accomplishments with the retirement of his #21 jersey. In addition, he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and named one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of all-time.
  Bing founded Bing Steel, a processing company that earned him the National Minority Small Business Person of the Year award in 1984. Soon the business grew into the multimillion-dollar Detroit-based conglomerate, the Bing Group, one of the largest steel companies in Michigan.
  Bing entered Detroit politics as a Democrat in 2008, announcing his intentions to run for mayor in the city's non-partisan primary to finish the term of Kwame Kilpatrick, who had resigned amid a corruption scandal.
context_section_description: Bing's playing style was somewhat unusual for the time.  As a lean, athletic and explosive point guard, he functioned as the playmaker distributing the ball, but also did more shooting and scoring than most others who had this position.  At one time a joke about him and his backcourt partner, Jimmy Walker, was that it was a shame they could only play the game with one ball at a time.
caption: Bing playing for the Detroit Pistons, c. 1975
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