High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andrew Michael Phillip was a guard/forward who had an 11 year career professional basketball career from 1948 to 1958. Born in Granite City, Illinois, Andy Phillip played for the Chicago Stags of the Basketball Association of America and the Philadelphia Warriors, Fort Wayne Pistons and Boston Celtics, all of the National Basketball Association. Phillip led his high school, Granite City, to the Illinois state championship in 1940. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he earned renown for his talents and the Fighting Illini's success. Upon graduation from college, Phillip did a short stint in the United States Marine Corps where he served as a First Lieutenant