"Hours after the Washington Wizards announced that he was hired as an assistant on Coach Flip Saunders's staff, Randy Wittman went out to dinner with his new boss and told Saunders a story from his first day as a player in the NBA. In 1983, the Washington Bullets drafted Wittman, a 6-foot-6 guard out of Indiana, with the 22nd overall pick. Wittman said he wore a Bullets hat for "about 10 minutes" before being traded to the Atlanta Hawks for 6-11 forward Tom McMillen. "I'm telling Flip this story [Thursday] night and as soon as Tom McMillen's words came out of my mouth, he walked in the door," Wittman said Friday following a pre-draft workout at Verizon Center. "It was a little scary." ..."
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