Quintin "Q" Dailey 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 died from cardiovascular disease he was , 49,.[1]
(January 22, 1961 – November 8, 2010)
Dailey was born on January 22, 1961, in Baltimore and was a schoolboy star at Cardinal Gibbons School. Heavily recruited out of high school, Dailey chose to attend the University of San Francisco from among the 200 schools that pursued him and play for the school's basketball team.[2] Dailey scored 1,841 points during his collegiate career, averaging 20.5 points per game.[1] The 755 points he scored during his third and final year at USF, averaging 25.2 points per game, broke the school record that had been held by Bill Cartwright.[2]
The University of San Francisco had been on NCAA probation in previous seasons and in July 1982 school president Rev. John Lo Schiavo canceled the basketball program for what turned out to be three seasons after disclosures that Dailey had improperly accepted $1,000 per month for a no-show job from a team booster, calling the disclosure "the last straw". That same year, Dailey was sentenced to serve three years of probation after pleading guilty to the sexual assault of a USF student and later settled a suit with the victim in which he paid $100,000 and issued a statement of apology. Days after pleading guilty in the case, the Chicago Bulls selected Dailey as the seventh pick overall in the 1982 NBA Draft.[2]
The controversy followed him to Chicago, where women's groups 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".[2] Despite the off-court distractions, Dailey averaged 15.1 points per game in his first season with the Bulls and was chosen for that year's NBA All-Rookie Team.[1] With the Bulls in 1985, Dailey carped that Michael Jordan received more attention from the team, arguing that he was "a player who likes to shine a little bit myself".[2]
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 the NBA drug policy on two occasions.[2]
Dailey died in his sleep in Las Vegas at the age of 49 on November 8, 2010, due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease.[3] He was survived by a daughter and a son.
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