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Dantley was an All-American at Notre Dame and a member of the United States' gold-medal Olympic team in 1976.

The Buffalo Braves made him the No. 6 pick in the NBA draft, but ended up playing for seven teams during a 15-year career.

In his seven seasons in Utah, Dantley scored 13,635 points, including a 57-point performance against Chicago on Dec. 4, 1982.

After the Jazz drafted Stockton in 1984 and Malone in 1985 and determined those two young players were the future cornerstones of the franchise, they traded Dantley and a pair of second-round draft picks to Detroit on Aug. 21, 1986 for Kelly Tripucka and Kent Benson.

Dantley finished his career with 23,177 points, which ranks him 18th among all-time NBA scorers.Dantley was Joe Dumars' mentor on the Pistons, and his nickname was "The Teacher". One of the most effective low post small forwards of all time.

Adrian Dantley Statistics - Basketball-Reference.com (http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dantlad01.html)

Dantley was one of my all time favorites.

I remember sitting a couple of rows back one game and Dantley was standing on the sideline. It was then that I realized what true giants these players were. I'm telling you the guy was solid muscle and his legs looked like solid thick brick.

Scary!!!!

Yes, I know how the argument goes, but I'm still sorry Aguire got the ring instead of A.D. :(

Dantley was a brick back before kids started lifting weights in kindergarten too.

Finally!

AD was a great player. It seems only right that someone should retire his jersey, and who better than the Jazz with whom he spent half his career and averaged 30 ppg?

One of my favorite pistons and glad his jersey got retired.

I will never forget the 1988 Finals where AC Green = Dantley`s female dog..........Priceless

Well i guess it's time to go oldskool on yall. :MusicBigGrin: My first knowledge of AD CAME IN THE LATE 70'S. Back then in Detroit, you could get Notre Dame basketball on TV. This was wayyy before ESPN game of the week and NBC Notre Dame football. Ad was a junior at ND, a 6'5" pit bull. All he did was get the ball and go to the hole. If he didnt score, he'd get fouled. And he played on a great team, Shumate, Flowers, Duck Williams. They even beat UCLA when they had won, like, 268 games in a row. I always saw AD as a player I could relate to. Like I was gonna be the first 5'7" power forward. heehee...But he was a very misconscrued NBA player. Because I never seen him dunk, scream, throw a behind the back pass, get kicked out of a game, wolf, cry about not enough minutes or get involved in a scandal(until Zekegate) in all of his 23000 point career.
Some of yall may not know the details of this young man from maryland's life, but he was a very inspirational player to me and a dream come true for me when he came to Motown. He did get run out of town by Zeke and LAim and it was partly justified, but he will always be the man that got us through the Celtics to me! Congrats, AD!