Willis Reed

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The team continued to struggle for a few years while adding good players through trades and the draft. He retired from that position in 2007. For the season he ranked seventh in the NBA in scoring (19.

(born June 25 1942) is a retired American basketball player coach and general manager. In 1982 Reed was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. After retiring as a player Reed served as assistant and head coach with several teams for nearly a decade then was promoted to General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations (1989 to 1996) for the New Jersey Nets.