Tip-Off: How the 1984 NBA Draft Changed Basketball Forever

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The 1984 NBA draft is without doubt one of the most controversial in NBA history. Teams were losing games very suspiciously all over the regular season to strengthen their draft position. And who wouldn’t, when the draft featured four future members of the Top 50 NBA Players of All Time team-Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, and Michael Jordan. But this draft is most incessantly remembered as the one where Michael Jordan slipped to third and used to be a reason the lottery system used to be introduced the next year. How could the experts have been so incorrect and, even more astoundingly, how could the Portland Trailblazers, who held the second one pick, pass on Jordan and make a choice the injury-prone Sam Bowie? Filip Bondy sets out to reply to that question and many more. Talking to general managers, coaches, and players, Bondy provides all the back story of the draft: trades that were never made; incorrect-headed assessments of players like Charles Barkley and John Stockton, and how Bobby Knight, coach of the 1984 U.S. Olympic team, played a major role in advising certain teams about key players.

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