Despite a productive NBA and ABA career, Spencer Haywood will always be remembered as the man who opened the door for underclassmen college basketball players to leave college early to play in the pros, thereby creating the "Spencer Haywood rule." Haywood attended the University of Detroit on a basketball scholarship and helped the United States ...
Currently working in real estate and the auto industry in Canton, Michigan. [January 2003]
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Attended the same high school (Pershing) as former NBA player Mel Daniels, though not at the same time.
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Forward/Center for Denver Rockets of ABA (1969-1970) and Seattle Supersonics (1970-1975), New York Knicks (1975-1979), New Orleans Jazz (1979), Los Angeles Lakers (1979-1980) and Washington Bullets (1981-1983) of NBA.