The Motor City Auto Project

MCAP Auto #88 - Bojan Bogdanovic
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MCAP Auto #89 - Buddy Boeheim
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Jackson "Buddy" Boeheim, son of Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim, knocked back offers from Gonzaga and UMass to play for his father at Syracuse.

Coming off the bench as a freshman, he averaged 6.8 points per game. The following season became a starter for the Orange and the 6'5" shooting guard responded with 15.3 ppg and 2.2 apg.

Buddy continued to improve throughout his college career, increasing his output to 17.8 ppg as Syracuse qualified for the NCAA Tournament, getting knocked out in the Sweet Sixteen. Syracuse regressed in his final year of college, but he put up a career high 19.2 ppg, 3.4 rpg and 3.1 apg.

He nominated for the 2022 NBA Draft, however was passed over, signing a two-way contract with the Pistons. Known for his shooting, Boeheim struggled in the Association. He featured in 10 games for Detroit, shooting 18.5% from the field and 16% from deep.

At the end of the season, he signed an Exhibit10 contract with the Pistons, but was waived in October. He is currently playing for the Piston's G-League affiliate, the Motor City Cruise.

To date he's scored 16 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals in 10 appearances in the NBA.
 
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MCAP Auto #80 - Caron Butler
2019-20 Panini Absolute Memorabilia - Retired Autographs Level 1 33/49
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Survivor of a "rough childhood" Butler, who grew up in Racine, Wisconsin, started dealing drugs when he was just 12 years old and by the age of 15 he had been arrested 15 times. However, without this start in life Butler may never have earned the privileged life he enjoys today, as it was at a youth detention centre where he discovered his love for the game of basketball. Only a few years later he was receiving a letter from the University of Connecticut offering him a basketball scholarship.

As a freshman Butler averaged 15.3 points & 7.6 rebounds per game for a below average Huskies team. He also went to the FIBA U21 World Championships with Team USA and won the gold. The following year, Caron would lead UConn to Big East regular season and tournament success on the back of his 20.3 ppg & 7.5 rpg. In the NCAA tournament the Huskies would make it to the Elite 8, however Butler's 33 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists was not enough to get past Maryland.

Naturally, Butler nominated for the NBA Draft on the back of his strong college performances and he was selected with the 10th pick by the Miami Heat. He was an instant starter for the Heat and featured in 78 games his rookie season. His 15.4 points, 5.1 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 8th best in the NBA 1.8 steals per game were enough to see him win East Rookie of the Month four out of a possible six times and he was also named All-Rookie First Team.

Butler struggled with injuries his sophomore season and with the Heat drafting Dwyane Wade and trading for Lamar Odom his numbers significantly dropped to 9.2 points per game, but the Heat were much improved and went to the playoffs as the 4th seed in the East. They faced a tricky match up with the 5th seeded New Orleans Hornets in the first round, however Butler contributed 14.7 points, 9.1 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 2.9 steals per game including 23/9/2/2 in the Game 7 victory before taking the top seeded Indiana Pacers to six games.

The Heat then used Butler to secure the services of Shaquille O'Neal, whose partnership with Kobe Bryant in LA had become untenable after three championships together. He was packaged with Brian Grant, Lamar Odom, a future 1st and 2nd round pick and sent to the Lakers. Like his rookie season, Butler once again found himself as a key piece on a poor team, once again scoring over 15 ppg. The Lakers were rebuilding however and needed a big man to replace Shaq, so after one season on the west coast, Butler was sent back east to Washington with Chucky Atkins for Kwame Brown and Laron Profit.

DC was where "Tough Juice" was born. Given the nickname by coach Eddie Jordan for his "aggressive and passionate play". Upon arrival the Wizards let him get to work with Gilbert Arenas & Antawn Jamison. Butler responded with a career best year, putting up 17.6/6.2/2.5/1.7. The Wizards were eliminated in the first round after losing to LeBron James and the Cavs in six games, but Butler earnt himself a 5 year, $46m deal. The following season Butler made the All-Star game as a reserve, averaging 19 ppg but he broke his hand, blocking a shot late in the season and missed the playoffs.

Tough Juice once again was an All-Star reserve in the 2007-08 season, but was forced to sit out with a hip injury which caused him to miss a significant part of the season. He performed well in the playoffs but the Wizards were eliminated by James and the Cavs for the third year running. The following year Butler put up a career best 20.8 points per game, but the Wizards were hopeless and won under 20 games. Then the Gilbert Arenas/Javaris Crittenton gun incident happened and the Wizards blew up the roster. Butler was sent mid-season to Dallas with Brendan Haywood & DeShawn Stevenson for Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, Quinton Ross and James Singleton. Butler averaged a shade under 20 points in the series, but the Mavs were upset by the Spurs in the first round.

The following season Butler only managed 29 games for the Mavs before rupturing a patellar tendon, causing him to miss the rest of the season as the Mavs went on to win the title over Miami in six games. Despite getting a ring, Butler didn't return to Dallas, signing a 3 year, $24m deal with the Clippers in a return to LA. Now into his 30s, Butler was on his last legs as a started in the NBA and was an important support piece to the trio of Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin. The Clippers never managed to go far into the post-season with Butler though and going into the last year of his deal, Caron was once again dealt, this time to Phoenix with Eric Bledsoe in a three team deal so the Clips could acquire JJ Reddick and Jared Dudley. Still in the off-season, the Suns traded Butler to Milwaukee for Ish Smith and Viacheslav Kravtsov.

In Milwaukee, he averaged 11 points per game and managed to score 38 points in a game against the 76ers, however the Bucks were on their way to winning 15 games for the season so they bought him out and let him walk to OKC who used him off the bench to support Durant, Westbrook and Ibaka. The Thunder were unable to overcome the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals.

The Detroit Pistons then signed Butler to a 2 year, $9m deal at the beginning of the 2014-15 season. Butler featured in 78 games, coming mostly off the bench, to average 5.9 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1 assist in 21 minutes. After one year in Detroit, the Pistons traded him and Shawne Williams to Milwaukee for Ersan Ilyasova. He was instantly waived by the Bucks and signed a 2 year, $3m deal with the Kings. He played 17 games for Sacramento before they waived him using the stretch provisions.

His last game was in April 2016, but he didn't officially announce his retirement until February 2018. During this period he worked as a basketball analyst for ESPN and later joined Fox Sports in this role.

Since his Wizards days Butler has struggled through an addiction to Mountain Dew and would drink approximately 6 cans a day including waking up in the middle of the night to have one. He also owns 6 Burger King restaurants after once working for a franchise in his youth.

As of November 2020, he is a member of the Miami Heat coaching staff who have just punched a ticket to the 2023 NBA Finals.

In his career, he managed 881 regular season games averaging 14.1 points, 5 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.3 steals.
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Another interestign fact abotu Caron Butler was that he was addicatd to chewing or sucking on plastic straws. NBA called it a saefty issue and proceeed to ban the chewing / sucking of straws whilst on the bench... lol
 
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Another interestign fact abotu Caron Butler was that he was addicatd to chewing or sucking on plastic straws. NBA called it a saefty issue and proceeed to ban the chewing / sucking of straws whilst on the bench... lol
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I thought you were going to say he chewed straws on the court - that could have been problematic.

On the bench doesn't really seem an issue. I think there were bigger things the league could have focused on!
 
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I thought you were going to say he chewed straws on the court - that could have been problematic.

On the bench doesn't really seem an issue. I think there were bigger things the league could have focused on!
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That seems to be the general consensus, had been doing it for many seasons before the league changed its mind. Conspiracy theory is that the league waited for Butler to land in Dallas before doing anything so as to be more of a nuisance to Mark Cuban more than anything else.
 
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That seems to be the general consensus, had been doing it for many seasons before the league changed its mind. Conspiracy theory is that the league waited for Butler to land in Dallas before doing anything so as to be more of a nuisance to Mark Cuban more than anything else.
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That's an impressive level of petty if true!
 
MCAP Auto #90 - Don Adams
2005-06 Topps 1952 Style – All Time Fan Favorite Autographs
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A “baby boomer” born in 1947, Adams played college basketball for Northwestern, averaging 15 points and 10.9 rebounds per game during his three seasons as a Wildcat.

The small forward was then selected with the 120th pick in the 1970 NBA Draft by the San Diego Rockets. He played his entire rookie season, with averages of 11.4 ppg, 7.1 rpg & 2.1 apg. The Rockets then moved to Houston the following season and delt Adams along with Larry Siegfried to Atlanta for Jim Davis & John Vallely early in the new season.

Back in his native Georgia, Adams put up almost identical numbers in his second season in the NBA for the Hawks and despite finishing 10 games under .500, Atlanta qualified for the playoffs, losing to the Celtics in 6 games.

The following season, Adams was once again on the move as Atlanta also moved him after just over one season, this time to the Pistons in a trade for a 1973 2nd round draft pick (Tom Ingelsby was selected).

Adams settled in Detroit and continued to feature regularly for the Pistons. In his 2nd season in the Motor City, the team went 52-30 and made the playoffs, however they lost to the Chicago Bulls in 7 games. Adams contribution for the series was 9.1 ppg, 7.3 rpg and 2.9 apg.

Midway through his third season with the Pistons, the team waived him in February 1973, with Adams moving to the Spirits of St. Louis of the ABA where he once again briefly featured in the playoffs.

St. Louise waived him after 36 appearances in December 1975 and Adams moved again, this time signing for the Buffalo Braves. Now reduced to a role player Adams was a member of the Braves team that lost in the 2nd round of the playoffs, once again to the Boston Celtics in 6 games.

The following year, Adams had a more prominent role for Buffalo, however the team failed to make the post season and he signed for Detroit once again in August 1978. The Pistons waived him just three days later however.

Post-career Adams remained in Michigan, working as a financial advisor. He passed away in 2013 at the age of 66.
 
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MCAP Auto #90 - Don Adams
2005-06 Topps 1952 Style – All Time Fan Favorite Autographs

The small forward was then selected with the 120th pick in the 1970 NBA Draft by the San Diego Rockets. He played his entire rookie season, with averages of 11.4 ppg, 7.1 rpg & 2.1 apg.
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Not too shabby for the 120th pick!
 
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