Terry Duerod Obituary: This is what you have to think about Terry Duerod. The person had range — particularly on the ball court as one of the most-productive shooters in Detroit history.

“He had range,” said Dick Vitale, Duerod’s mentor at the University of Detroit, and afterward with the Detroit Pistons, “the moment he ventured out of the storage space.”

Terry Duerod goes through drills as a Detroit Piston in September of 1979.

Also, Duerod had range throughout everyday life — most eminently, progressing after school and expert b-ball, to a second, almost three-long term vocation as a fireman in the city of Detroit.

Duerod kicked the bucket Friday morning at 64 years old, encircled by loved ones at his home in Westland. He unobtrusively struggled leukemia for as long as seven months, and was in hospice care for the most recent week.

Barely any companions realized he was wiped out, other than his closest companion, previous partner at Detroit, Earl Cureton.

“He resembles a sibling to me,” said Cureton, 63, who played at Detroit Finney before Detroit, and had known Duerod since they were the two youngsters, never meeting in secondary school yet going head to head against Duerod in a few elite player and pickup games at St. Cecila’s. “He was an incredible person. He’s constantly been a similar individual, since the time I met him. A person you could trust, a person that was consistently a man of his statement.