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30 Years in 30 Days: Day 20- Was Jack McMahon prescient or lucky?

So as we know by now Len Bias was the number 2 pick while Brad Daugherty went number one to Cleveland. However you may have forgotten that it was actually Philadelphia who had won the lottery and owned the #1 pick. Yet despite the rave reviews on Bias, the 76ers never brought him in for a workout; they only brought in Daugherty. The reason was because of Jack McMahon.

McMahon served as the Sixers head scout at the time and according to general manager Pat Williams, his trepidation on Bias was all they needed to hear:

I said to Jack, 'What about Bias?