How Different the NBA Would Be If Blazers Drafted Jordan

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  1. KingSpeed

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    http://hypun.com/how-different-the-nba-would-be-if-the-blazers-drafted-michael-jordan/
     
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    Trade Clyde for a top big?
     
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    82-0
     
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    6 time finals MVP Sam Bowie
     
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    If we drafted MJ, then we'd probably have dealt Drexler for a young guy (maybe Barkley?).
     
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    porter-drexler-jordan-duckworth-sabonis. with kersey, buck, drazen, and cliff robinson off the bench would scares the heck out of every single team in nba. the late 80's through the 90's would been forever known as the "Blazes Dynasty" the nba would be different, everyone would be worshiping us instead of the bulls, lakers, and boston.
     
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    Would Sabas had come over earlier? Regardless, Poter, Jordan, Clyde, Sabas, Duck

    Sorry, but I actually see 82-0....not actually, but would that have been the greatest team of all time?
     
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    We traded Bowie for Buck, so......
     
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    Jordan would have been injured his rookie year....
     
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    This. Can't get Buck with Bowie.
     
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    Does jordan turn out to be not good not having a chip on his shoulder for not being picked 1? Do his knees hold out?

    If jordan is drafted by blazers does the housing market still crash? Is there ever a swine flu? Butterfly effect is just too much
     
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    Anyone ever read this? I just picked it up from my boss to read this AM. Ill give a review at the end in a couple weeks. He said its a great read.
     
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    I don't see where he listed Buck and Bowie on the same team?
     
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    He listed Buck and Jordan on the same Blazers team. If we draft Jordan, we don't have Bowie, therefore can't trade him for Buck.
     
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    Oh yeah. Duh!
     
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    Well maybe we would've traded for him anyway, say with a first round pick or something
     
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    I like to imagine that drafting Jordan instead would have changed the NBA drastically, that it would have a far reaching ripple effect. Maybe draft orders would have been different in the following years, maybe LeBron would be a Bull. haha
     
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    Seems pessimistic, but you have to wonder. Or maybe he wouldn't have become the great player he has (yeah right) We probably would have kept him for few years then traded him to Nets for Buck Williams. It's nice to think he would have brought Portland many championships...perhaps Phil Jackson would have coached in Portland too
     
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    If we'd have drafted Jordan instead of Bowie in 1984........

    Fun thing to ponder and oh, the possibilities!!

    We'd have had a roster that looked like this:
    PG Valentine - Colter
    SG Jordan - Paxson - Drexler - BThompson
    SG Vandeweghe - Kersey
    PF Thompson - Carr - Norris
    C Sheffler

    But....if we'd not have been interested in Bowie....we'd have probably not made the trade for Vandeweghe and so we could have had a roster that looked like this:
    PG Valentine - Lever
    SG Jordan - Paxson - BThompson
    SG Calvin Natt - Drexler - Kersey
    PF Thompson - Carr
    C Cooper

    Now, can you imagine what we could have gotten in return for a trade package of Paxson (2-time All-Star guard) Natt, or Drexler?

    What about a lineup of:
    Lever - Jordan - Kersey - Buck - Sabonis?
    Lever - Jordan - Kersey - Thompson - Laimbeer?
    Lever - Jordan - Drexler - KCarr - Laimbeer?

    Oh it makes my head hurt!
     
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    When i saw this thread, i thought of this book. I read that book some time ago. There are some interesting insights, but I can't remember them as I sit here today.
     
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