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OT: Victor Wembanyama is very tall, and very good.

Bowie was drafted before Jordan because their GM was an idiot.
There are lots of examples of terrible NBA draft decisions (Bowie over Jordan being the most egregious), but also on the list is the Timberwolves taking TWO point guards (Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn) in 2009 ahead of the Warriors selecting Steph Curry with the ninth pick. Brilliant!

OT: Victor Wembanyama is very tall, and very good.

I don’t buy this at all. MJ and Clyde are both HOF’ers and top 50 players of all time. Both were exceptional passers and there wasn’t a team on the planet that could have defended them. They absolutely would have found a way to make it work. It was this old school drafting for position at the top of the draft that costs GM’s their jobs.
Sorry but no. It was not a time of positionless BB. Both played basically the same role, both the leaders of their teams and there was only one ball. Pippen and Jordan (also both top 50 as I recall) but they had different roles and everyone knew who was THE guy and that is why it worked. Jordan would not have developed the same way if he was on the same team as Drexler
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