<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Chicago Tribune - In an interview for a forthcoming book, Harold Katz, the former Sixers owner, revealed something that he offered Julius Erving, the Hall of Fame forward, to Chicago on the eve of the 1984 draft for the third overall pick, which the Bulls used to select <u>Michael Jordan</u>. "I thought I had a deal with Jonathan Kovler (then the principal owner) of the Bulls for the third pick," Katz told Pat Williams, once the Sixers' general manager, in an interview for "Pat Williams' Tales of the 1982-83 76ers." Ultimately, Katz said, "Rod Thorn [then the Bulls' general manager] killed that one and took <u>Michael Jordan</u>. I would have made that deal." Thorn, now the president of the New Jersey Nets , confirmed to Williams that Kovler approached him about such a deal, and that he rejected it.</div>http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives...r_j_for_jordan/Wow interesting. Looking back it would seem like a good idea, but at the time it would have been crazy. Dr.J was still pretty good and we didnt know how great MJ was going to be.MJ and Barkley would have been deadly. But then we would have never gotten AI cus we wouldnt have sucked all the way throught the 90's. But still interesting to see what could have happened.
Now that is something I didn't know... and he had to have a great eye for talent to offer Dr. J, a Philly icon coming off a championship two years before, for MJ. At that point it would be questionable, but obviously looking back now everybody would have done it. It definitely would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the trade actually been accepted.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigMo763 @ Apr 19 2007, 04:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Now that is something I didn't know... and he had to have a great eye for talent to offer Dr. J, a Philly icon coming off a championship two years before, for MJ. At that point it would be questionable, but obviously looking back now everybody would have done it. It definitely would have been interesting to see what would have happened had the trade actually been accepted.</div>LOL as long as they did not have a Billy King like gm they would have won titles. LOLhaha wow that is pretty cool though to bad that gm did not accept.
