SPECIAL QUESTION: hey! let's bring up sam bowie again!

Guy at the bar: You guys drafted Sam Bowie and Greg Oden! What a terrible franchise! You do know that you could have drafted MJ (he will call Jordan ‘MJ’ because he is a total a**hole) and Durantula (see last parenthetical comment), right? (Takes drink of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, looking rather pleased with himself.)

You: MJ? Marc Jackson was one of the better centers to come out of Temple, but I would hardly label the franchise ‘terrible’ for passing over him. What about your front office? Why did they draft ______ instead of ­______ in ­­­­­­­______? (See chart below to fill in the gaps according to their favorite team.)

Team	Drafted	Passed On	Year
Atlanta Hawks	Marvin Williams	Chris Paul	2005
Boston Celtics	Norm Cook	Alex English	1976
Charlotte Bobcats	Adam Morrison	Anybody Else	2006
Chicago Bulls	Olden Polynice	Reggie Miller	1987
Cleveland Cavs	Vitaly Potapenko	Kobe Bryant	1996
Dallas Mavericks	Samaki Walker	Steve Nash	1996
Denver Nuggets	Nikoloz Tskitishvili	Amar’e Stoudemire	2002
Detroit Pistons	Darko Milicic	Dwayne Wade	2003
Golden State Warriors	Joe Smith	Kevin Garnett	1995
Houston Rockets	Ed Ratleff	George McGinnis	1973
Indiana Pacers	Rick Robey	Larry Bird	1978
LA Clippers	Michael Olowokandi	Dirk Nowiztki	1998
LA Lakers	Ken Barlow	Dennis Rodman	1986
Memphis Grizzlies	Hasheem Thabeet	Stephen Curry	2009
Miami Heat	Harold Miner	Latrell Sprewell	1992
Milwaukee Bucks	Joe Alexander	Brook Lopez	2008
Minnesota T-Wolves	Corey Brewer	Joakim Noah	2007
New Jersey Nets	Dennis Hopson	Scottie Pippen	1987
New Orleans Hornets	Cedric Simmons	Rajon Rondo	2006
New York Knicks	Tom Riker	Julius Erving	1972
OKC Thunder	Danny Vranes	Larry Nance	1981
Orlando Magic	Reece Gaines	David West	2003
Philadelphia 76ers	Leon Wood	John Stockton	1984
Phoenix Suns	Ed Pinckney	Karl Malone	1985
Sacramento Kings	Ennis Whatley	Clyde Drexler	1983
San Antonio Spurs	Johnny Dawkins	Mark Price	1986
Toronto Raptors	Rafael Araujo	Andre Iguodala	2004
Utah Jazz	Rich Kelley	World B. Free	1975
Washington Wizards	Kwame Brown	Pau Gasol	2001

See? Nobody’s perfect.

Note: No matter how badly you want to defend Sam Bowie’s career (he did average 15 and 10 for the Nets in ’90), don’t do it. It’s Jordan they’re talking about.