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| | The Sporting News: The name of the father. (Detroit Pistons' Grant... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | By pure design, which was always his NFL signature, Hill is carefully obscured two rows deep in the VIP section at courtside and clear across the floor and distantly diagonal from his son's Detroit Pistons bench. |
 | | He never told people, unless they asked, that he was Calvin Hill's son (Once, when Calvin accepted an invitation to speak at Grant's school, Grant feigned an illness and hid out in the nurse's office.), and he never wanted to be driven home from school in anything but the old Volkswagen, the family's third car. |
 | | Hill averaged only 14.9 points per game at Duke, not exactly what you'd expect of a first-round draft choice, but "he was the guy we went to whenever we needed a big play," says Tommy Amaker, the Duke assistant who recruited Hill out of high school. |
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