Quintin Dailey

Quintin "Q" Dailey (January 22, 1961 – November 8, 2010) was an American professional basketball player. A 6'3" guard who played collegiately at the University of San Francisco, he later went on to a career in the NBA, playing for the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, and Seattle SuperSonics over the course of his 10-year tenure in the league.

Early life and legal troubles Dailey was born on January 22, 1961, in Baltimore and was a schoolboy star at Cardinal Gibbons School, graduating in 1979. He was heavily recruited out of high school; from among the 200 colleges that pursued him, Dailey chose to attend the University of San Francisco to play for the Dons basketball team. Dailey scored 1,841 points during his collegiate career, averaging 20.5 points per game.

Professional career The controversy followed him to Chicago. Women's groups and the Chicago press protested against his presence on the team, and building owners refused to have him as a tenant. John Schulian of the Chicago Sun-Times criticized the preferential treatment he had received as a star basketball player, saying that "if he were just another creep off the street, he would still be learning what a chamber of horrors the halls of justice can be." At his first press conference after being drafted, he refused to express any remorse for his crime or sympathy for his victim, and claimed no one gave him a chance to tell his side of the story. The student he assaulted sued him in 1983, and Dailey settled by paying $100,000 and apologizing to her.

Over his ten years in the NBA he averaged 14.1 points per game but continued to be a distraction off the court, missing games and violating NBA drug policy on two occasions. He was survived by a daughter, Quinci, and a son, Quintin Jr., who played basketball at Eastern Michigan University.

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