News from October 1. Ben Gordon accepted Chicago's 1 year, $6.4 million qualifying offer at the offer's deadline. Thus Gordon will be an unrestricted free agent next summer. Golden State signed Dan Dickau. Sacramento named Shareef Abdur-Rahim as an assistant coach. San Antonio signed Charles Gaines and released Brian Morrison. ---- Patricia Bender pbender@eskimo.com For NBA stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/index.html For Mavs stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/mavs.html