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Dick McGuire, a Fixture With the Knicks for More Than Half a Century, Dies at 84

February 3, 2010

Dick McGuire, whose deft ball-handling and passing wizardry led the New York Knicks to three straight National Basketball Association finals, and who then coached and scouted for them in a Hall of Fame career that lasted more than half a century, died Wednesday in Huntington, N.Y. He was 84.

His death, at Huntington Hospital, was announced by the Knicks. He lived in nearby Dix Hills on Long Island. At his death he was a senior basketball consultant to the team and was about to leave on a scouting trip when he had an aortic aneurysm, his wife, Teri, said.