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Article: A DOLLAR COULDN'T BUY SUCH HAPPINESS.(SPORTS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 5, 1998
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Byline: KAREN CROUSE
The sweepstakes entry packet arrived in the mail recently, promising an $11 million payoff to the lucky winner. Cameron Dollar gave it a cursory look, then tossed it aside. Who needs wealth when you have simple abundance?
That Dollar isn't driven by cold cash became clear last summer when he set aside six overtures in the NBA free-agent sweepstakes to become an assistant coach at UC Irvine.
As the floor general for UCLA in the 1995 NCAA championship game and the Bruins team that advanced to the Elite Eight two years later, Dollar seldom made poor decisions. But many of his friends wondered what Dollar was doing, throwing ...