The NBA universe converged in a weird way in 1993. On July 23rd, James Jordan, father of Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan, was murdered in an attempted carjacking at a rest stop in North Carolina. A week later, and a world away, a business man named Leslie Alexander purchased the Houston Rockets for $85 million.
As fate would have it, Michael Jordan retired for the first time that October. The Rockets would go on to win the NBA championship the following spring, defeating the New York Knicks in an NBA Finals that included the infamous O.