In a twelve year career, he was a two-time All-NBA Team member and an eight-time All-Star while reaching the NBA Finals five times.

That year, the team went to the NBA Finals and he scored 24 points in the decisive Game 7 but they narrowly lost to Syracuse.

In 1960, he was traded to the St. Louis Hawks,[7] who he would play with for two and a half more seasons before retiring at the age of 33 due to the grueling schedule catching up with his sore legs and back.

[8] Author Robert Cohen, in selecting an all-star team from the 1946-1960 era of the NBA, chose Foust as the fifth-best center, noting that Foust "in many ways represented one of the finest early prototypes of what eventually became the modernized basketball big man.

Although Foust had considerable bulk and displayed a great deal of aggression under the boards, he also exhibited a fair amount of agility and ballhandling skills.

He is one of just five players (Bob Cousy, Dolph Schayes, Ed Macauley, Harry Gallatin) who was named to each of the NBA’s first six All-Star teams (1951-1956) but he is the only one to not be in the Hall.