Blazers: Bowie: I lied to Portland staff about leg pain prior to '84 Draft

[CubanMustGo]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...9458--nba.html

"I can still remember them taking a little mallet, and when they would hit me on my left tibia, and 'I don't feel anything' I would tell 'em. But deep down inside, it was hurting. If what I did was lying and what I did was wrong, at the end of the day, when you have loved ones that have some needs, I did what any of us would have done."

LOL Blazers
LOL 'non-issue'
LOL tlongII

[pass1st]

I wouldn't be surprised if they hit him with a sledge hammer instead of a mallet, tbh. The medical staff in Portland is pretty horrible

[Richie]

Fair play to him. It's Portlands fault for not spotting it. Doctors should be able to spot a player in pain.

I wonder if Oden will be saying the same in 20 years

[baseline bum]

If Bowie had answered truthfully...

[AussieFanKurt]

where it all began

[pass1st]

If Bowie had answered truthfully...

tlong would still be posting any and all MJ related articles, long after his retirement.

[baseline bum]

where it all began

Nope

[DPG21920]

I love the "I'm not going to say I was a liar or necessarily that what I did was wrong, but I did what I had to morals be damned".

[Latarian Milton]

they had drexler on their team already so they had a good reason not to draft jordan imho

[racm]

they had drexler on their team already so they had a good reason not to draft jordan imho

They could have gone with Jordan and Drexler splitting time at the 2 and 3.

[tlongII]

It's history.

[Chinook]

If Bowie had answered truthfully...

That would have been a shame. The NBA would be a different place had Jordan gone down with a career-ending knee injury.

[Brunodf]

That would have been a shame. The NBA would be a different place had Jordan gone down with a career-ending knee injury.

[KaiRMD1]

Jordan still would have went to Chicago. Portland would have drafted another center. That person could have had a better career than Bowie and not been known as the "guy who was drafted right before Jordan"

[LnGrrrR]

I love the "I'm not going to say I was a liar or necessarily that what I did was wrong, but I did what I had to morals be damned".

I think 99% of us would have done the same

[baseline bum]

Jordan still would have went to Chicago. Portland would have drafted another center. That person could have had a better career than Bowie and not been known as the "guy who was drafted right before Jordan"

Would have been interesting seeing that Blazers team with Sam Perkins.

LOL random fact... the 25th pick of that draft was named Devin Durrant.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

If Bowie had answered truthfully...

I always wondered if Jordan had been drafted by a small market team if he would have left to play for a bigger market by 1990.