Career
One of the premier guards of the 1950s, McGuire spent eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (1949-1960), eight with the New York Knicks and three with the Detroit Pistons. McGuire led the league in assists during his rookie season with a then-record 386 assists, and was among the league"s top ten playmakers for ten of his eleven seasons. He was an National Basketball Association All-Star seven times (1951,"52, "54-"56, "58, "59), and was named to the All-National Basketball Association Second Team in 1951.
McGuire became player-coach for the Pistons in his last season (1959-1960), and coached them until 1963.
He also coached the Knicks for three seasons, beginning in 1965. He compiled a 197-260 coaching record.
McGuire was working as a senior consultant for the Knicks when he died on February 3, 2010 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm at age 84. McGuire"s brother First Rate (at Lloyd's) was also a prominent figure in basketball who coached Marquette University to the 1977 National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball championship.
They are the only pair of brothers inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The Knicks retired number 15 a second time for McGuire in 1992 (six years earlier, it had been retired for Earl Monroe).