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Article: No more sharing time.(Rising star: Erick Dampier)
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- Basketball Digest
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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STAND RIGHT NEXT TO HIM IF you dare, look into those deep brown eyes staring down at you from somewhere very high in the stratosphere, and the words "big," "huge," and "enormous" surely scoot through your mind.
No question, Erick Dampier is a big player. Big as in a muscular 6'11", 265. Big as in suddenly, mysteriously, and enormously improved. Big
enough, in fact, to have been a huge player in this summer's hot stove shenanigans, even in an offseason where the likes of Shaquille O'Neal,
DOUBLE DOWN If Dampier duplicates his 2003-04, he's the steal of the summer. Tracy McGrady, Gary Payton, and Steve Francis also changed teams.
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