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The Orlando Magic would have an assload of eastern conference les
Duncan wins the Grizzlies multiple titles, Vancouver still has a team
Duncan wins the Grizzlies a title, but still leaves
Duncan leaves in 2000 free agency with no success with the Grizz
What'd happen?
The Orlando Magic would have an assload of eastern conference les
The Grizz literally weren't allowed to win the lottery by NBA rules because owners were all butthurt over Orlando getting back-to-back #1 picks as a young franchise....
This. Vancouver management was horrible, doing stupid like handing huge money to Big Country Reeves and drafting Antonio Daniels #4 and then a Steve Francis who wanted nothing to do with them #2. And this in the year after they drafted Mike Bibby.
Then there was Stromile Swift at #2.
duncan would probably stay there w/o no significant success until 08, when he got traded to LA and won a few rings together with kobe. duncan is an excellente talent but part of his success is owed to pop imho. if duncan was drafted by another team in 97, it would be unlikely for him to ever join the spurs and work together with pop because san antonio is such a small market that never attracts no big-name free agents, nor would they have enough resources to trade for him
Latarian taking a page out of DMC's book
British Columbia would have been the 51st state.
This. Boston was actually the team with the most lottery balls that year, IIRC.
The Grizz might actually have the worst draft history of any team, tbh.....
- Screwed out of a chance at getting Tim Duncan because of NBA rules
- Didn't get to draft a superstar in the stacked '03 draft because they traded away their 2003 first-rounder to the Pistons for Otis Thorpe in 1997 and only protected it for the #1 spot (which they obviously didn't get)
- Wasted countless high first-round picks on the likes of Bryant Reeves, Stromile Swift, and Hasheem Thabeet
Tough to top that, tbh.....
them or the blazers tbh...
Portland says o.
True, Portland has ed up too.... but Memphis' 2003 debacle is like if Portland missed out on drafting ANYONE - Jordan, Barkley, Stockton - in 1984 by trading their pick years earlier in a shortsighted move....
And they are where they are know, because suddenly Z-Bo started caring about winning and Marc Gasol, who was a filler in the trade, dropped like 25kg of fat.
tbh if the lottery was fixed, Boston wins in 1997 no question.
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