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He's the right person

Brought to the Lakers to help Ron Artest, Chuck Person has influenced the whole team

Updated: June 15, 2010, 2:05 AM ET
By Dave McMenamin | ESPNLosAngeles.com

Chuck Person, the man known as "The Rifleman" in his playing days, doesn't warrant more than two bullet point-sized blurbs on Page 188 of the Los Angeles Lakers' media guide.

"9/20/00 Traded Glen Rice and Travis Knight to New York in exchange for Horace Grant, Greg Foster, Chuck Person and Emanual Davis from Seattle."

And in the line right below that:

"9/29/00 Waived Chuck Person."

On Sept. 29, 2000, Person officially ended his playing career in Los Angeles. ...

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