Michael Jordan: What If the Portland Trail Blazers Had Drafted Jordan?
August 14th, 2010 by Mike B. Leave a reply »In Game One of the 1992 NBA Finals against the Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls guard Michael Jordan hit a record-setting six first-half three pointers.
After knocking down the sixth, he simply shrugged his shoulders as if to say, "I can't believe I'm doing this." Or he might have been trying to tell the Blazers, "You had your chance to get me, but you blew it."
Blazers fans know the story oh so well.
At the 1984 NBA Draft, after the Houston Rockets selected Hakeem Olajuwon with the top pick, the Blazers passed up on Jordan to take University of Kentucky center Sam Bowie second overall. Jordan was drafted third by the Bulls.
Bowie turned out to be perhaps the biggest bust in NBA history, spending a great deal of his career on the injured list and never meeting expectations.
Jordan didn't do much either except for lead the Bulls to six championships, including that one in '92 vs. Portland, and become arguably the game's greatest player of all time.
The Bowie pick made a lot of sense at the time, seeing that the Blazers needed a center and already had a young shooting g ...
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