Tip-Off Timer: 88 Regular Season Games for Walt Bellamy
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Filed under: Knicks, PistonsTip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 NBA season. On Friday, there are exactly 88 days left.The New York Knicks traded aging star Walt Bellamy to the Pistons on December 19, 1969, in exchange for Dave DeBusschere. The swap cleared set the Knicks up for their only two championships in 1970 and 1972, as DeBusschere combined with Bill Bradley, Walt Frazier, Dick Barnett and Willis Reed to make a killer squad.But because of a scheduling quirk, the trade also put Bellamy in the record books. Bells played 35 games in Knick ...