Those of the belief that time heals all wounds haven’t felt the ones that last 36 years; the unmendable ones that leave you with Sam Bowie instead of Michael Jordan. The ones that produce 50-year title droughts.
The Band-Aid rips every time the 1984 NBA Draft is mentioned. It’s so infinitely disturbing that Portland Trail Blazers fans have blocked out every other storyline from that Draft (some by choice, some by necessity). Here, we’ll examine one forgotten subplot from the fifth round.
For history’s sake, it’s important to knock this out.