<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC @ May 21 2006, 10:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The only thing I dont understand is in todays era when a star swingman hits the game winning shot to win the NCAA championship like Jordan did he would be the #1 overall pick without a doubt.</div>i agree, the game winner show alot about a player!but i dont blame them for picking bowie - it seemed good at the time.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Something-To-Say @ Aug 12 2006, 10:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah, sometimes you take a Darko Milicic when there's a Chris Bosh 2 picks away... or a Kwame Brown when there's a Pau Gasol... or Joe Smith when there's a KG(rofl)... or Michael Olowokandi/Raef LaFrentz when there's a Dirk Nowitzki...</div>Marcus Camby when theres KOBE like 10 picks down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!RAPS!!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Something-To-Say @ Jul 30 2006, 12:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>MJ may not have ended up so good had he been with Portland.</div>Agreed. He would be stuck playing behind so many players. I would do anything to know how his career would have ended up had Portland chose him.
I don't blame them for picking Bowie over Jordan... As mentioned they had Paxson and Drexler in the SG position... So they took what they needed most at the time... Now they prolly were kicking themselves after...
I read in Clyde's book (read it! It's great!) that he wouldn't mind back in the day to play alongside Jordan, but as some of you already said: Bowie was a promising big man, and that's what they needed at that time.
Well, the main reason the blazers drafted bowie was because they already had clyde the glide. though apparently when Jack Ramsay asked Bobby Knight who he should draft bobby knight said michael Jordan. Jack Ramsay said "but we need a center" and Knight replied "Then play Jordan at center!"
