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Skiles is all basketball, all the time.(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Melissa Isaacson
CHICAGO _ He may have mellowed over the last few years, sanded down the edges, acquired a sense of humor about himself. Scott Skiles, in fact, may evolve into a regular renaissance man. Who's to say, really?
But that simply is not the Scott Skiles his friends, former teammates, coaches, casual acquaintances and parents know and love, and not the one John Paxson sought out to breathe life and fire into the Bulls.
"Everybody calls Jon Gruden `Chucky' (for the horror-movie doll of the late 1980s)," said Nick Anderson, a Chicago native who once was Skiles' teammate in Orlando. "But we called Scott Skiles `Chucky' 12 years ...
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