Wherever he played, he was a good player, but he would also often find himself overshadowed by the bigger name players. Michael Dickerson had a short career, but during that time showed how he could be an all around score and really primed to serve as a great and selfless player for years to come… He started with a stellar high school career which saw NBA Players like Ricky Pierce requesting to train with him due to his physical gifts. Dickerson would then spend 4 years with the Arizona Wildcats; he came in during Damon Stoudamire’s senior season then over the next 3 years after that, he would team with Mike Bibby, Jason Terry and Miles Simon as a crucial member of the 1997 Arizona Wildcats National Championship victory, even acting as the team’s leading scorer during his junior and senior seasons. After his great college career he was a first round pick by the Houston Rockets. He was brought in to replace Clyde Drexler and spent 1999 playing alongside Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley and Scottie Pippen. But then he was one of the main pieces included in the Steve Francis trade with the Vancouver Grizzlies, here over the next two years he would be a great swingman for a Grizzlies team who featured Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Bryant Reeves and Mike Bibby. But after two years with the team; they were relocated to Memphis and at the same time would trade away Abdur-Rahim and Mike Bibby for Pau Gasol and Jason Williams, yet Dickerson never really got a chance to play with them as he would appear in a combined 10 games over the next two seasons before retiring at the age of 28 due to Groin and hernia problems. Michael Dickerson likely wasn’t going to enter the league’s elite, but he was a good scorer and was just entering his prime, plus he had the misfortune of playing on the Vancouver Grizzlies; and one can only imagine the crucial role he could have played on contending teams had he stayed healthy.
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