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Tough Question

By by Chad Ford

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

Two games into his NBA career, Dan Dickau sent a message to the 21 teams that passed over him on draft day. With 2.9 seconds left in the third quarter of a Hawks-Nets game in Shaw's Pro Summer League in Boston, he set a hard pick on Richard Jefferson. Seconds later, both were on the deck in a rare summer league scuffle. Jefferson called Dickau dirty. Dickau brushed off the incident, but his summer league coach, Hawks assistant Eric Musselman, made sure the point wasn't lost: "Dan's tough. Y ...

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