Edwards added a key piece to the championship runs for the Pistons
https://www.vintagedetroit.com/james-edwards-detroit-pistons/ by DAN HOLMES on MARCH 20, 2016 Stoic James Edwards played 1,168 games in the National Basketball Association, the most ever by a player who was never an all-star. But Edwards was a star in the eyes of Detroit Piston fans as a key cog in two NBA title teams. The man they called “Buddha” arrived in Detroit just in time to join the championship rotation for coach Chuck Daly, becoming a Piston on February 24, 1988 from the Suns. Quick: who did Detroit give up to get Edwards in that trade? You can’t tell me, can you? It was Ron Moore, a rookie who saw action in only nine games for Daly and the Pistons that season. Moore was one of those guys who was only in the NBA because he happened to have the genes that made him seven-feet tall. Edwards was seven-feet tall too, but he had honed skills that NBA coaches loved. His patented move was the fade away jumper from six-to-eight feet from the hoop, a shot that was impossible to block...