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Article: Hollis Price slight of frame but tough of mind and body.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2002
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Byline: Bonnie DeSimone
CHICAGO _ Hollis Price has the face of a choirboy and manners to match.
"I'm not making this up," said Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson, who doesn't try to conceal his affection for the junior guard. "After the pregame meal, the first thing he does when he gets up is say `Thank you.' You give him a new pair of shoes and he'll come by the office and say, `Coach, thank you for those shoes.' He's almost too good to be true."
On the court, however, Price subscribes not to Emily Post but to the rogues' etiquette of the high and low posts. He is a cunning con artist in the passing lanes, an unapologetic pickpocket, a brash ...