FILE - This December 1959 file photo shows New York Knickerbockers' Richie Guerin (9) and Syracuse Nationals' Connie Dierking (20) during a basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York. Dierking has died at 77. His death was announced Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, by WKRC-TV, where his daughter Cammy Dierking is a news anchor. Dierking had been a 1958 first round pick of the Syracuse Nationals, and also played for the Philadelphia 76ers and San Francisco Warriors for more than a decade in the NBA. (AP Photo/John Lent, File)