Dale Davis... haven't heard that name in a minute... Hickson's way more explosive than Davis was though man!
On the Sactown year though, I'm just saying that'll make some GM's think twice. I get that the Sactown year was probably an outlier, but if you're a GM that's backing an upper multi-million dollar deal to grab a big man in a big man-heavy FA and draft class, that's got to factor in your decision making process. You know they're all going to be thinking, "Okay, he's playing like this now, but it's during a contract year." It's not even his Sactown stint either really, but his Cleveland play was inconsistent as well, although that may be unfair to pin on him because he was young, but in general, most people were expecting him to have bigger post-LeBron years than he did.
I always forget how young Hickson is though. I remember him at NC State like it was yesterday, but it always seems like he was there for more than a year. His age could get a team interested, and really, it only takes one team to drive up the price of a FA.