NBA Draft Lottery

It would still be a shitty system. But I'd be happy with the shitty system.

 

Since when is baseball more relevant than the NBA and based on what?

 

Sam Bowie. The pick that will live in infamy.

 

That basically means they will get a lottery pick because as long as Billy Knight is the man in charge of putting together the Hawks, that team will continue to suck.

I'm sure whoever the best 6-foot-8 non-shooting slasher is on the board, Knight will pick even though that team already has about nine players that fit that profile....

 

OUTING ALERT!!!! Sports Guy makes his true persona known.

 

And really that is the ultimate hind sight is 20/20 and unfair to that franchise because Portland actually made the pick that made the most sense for their team. They already had Drexler, they needed a center/big man not a shooting guard.

And anyone who can say based on his college career that they thought Jordan would become, well, Jordan is lying to you.

 

Yi Jianlian's not walking through that door. Brandan Wright's not
walking through that door.

 

Actually, the people who worked out the draftees were absolutely begging the GM to take Jordan. The basketball people were tearing their hair out over the Bowie pick. Somehow it's become legend that the pick made some sense at the time. It didn't to the people in Portland who had actually seen them play and worked out with the players. Ask Kermit Washington, who worked out Jordan and pleaded with the team not to make a huge mistake.

 

I remember a cover story on "Sport" magazine, that once-monthly publication that I believe is dead -- with a headline about how Portland did the right thing in picking Bowie.

They already had Drexler, had they not taken Bowie, Jordan would not have been the guy who they would have taken. Many in Portland were worried about Bowie being brittle, which he turned out to be.

 

There's a new book out about the 1984 draft by Filip Bondy. Anyone had a chance to read it yet?

 

The exact quotes I'm sure are off, but the meaning is the same.

NBA scout: So you do like on your team (1984 Olympic team)?

Coach Knight: I think this Jordan kid is special.

NBA scout: Well we are really looking to go with a center or an inside player.

Coach Knight: OK, play him at center.


I remember watching Jordan at UNC when I was 11, and even then I knew this guy was just playing in another league.

Does anyone remember UVA at UNC, Carolina down 18 or so, but Michael leads them back? With four fouls he turns a one-man press on the UVA point guard (Othella Wilson, maybe?) and picks him in the backcourt for a break away dunk for the lead. Carmichael's got sorta loud after that. Then with UVA's last possession Jordan outjumps Ralph for the defensive rebound.

You did not need to see any more film than that. Jordan was the #1 pick.

 

Now that the Celtics are totally screwed, they should grab Conley with the No. 5 pick.
He's not a big man, but he is going to be one hell of a point guard.