What if NBA careers.....

[BlueNGold]

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What if Boston gets the #1 or #2 pick in 07 and drafts Durant?

[AlexBrady]

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What if Michael Ray Richardson doesn't get busted for drugs? Possibly an all time great?

[st0rmb11]

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what if the Lakers hadn't brought back Phil Jackson after he left the first time...

[chance]

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What if Boston gets the #1 or #2 pick in 07 and drafts Durant?

They dont have a ring "right now"............... I think

[RonnieG]

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What if Benard King doesn't blow his knee out, a healthy King and Ewing combo would have been devastaing...

Wasnt the injury one of the reasons they were in position to draft Ewing?

[RonnieG]

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What if Danny Manning doesnt get injured and isnt drafted by the Clippers?

What if Baby Jordan was more than a toy Jordan in a happy mean?

What if Vince Carter was more competitive?

What if Nick Anderson was more clutch?

What if Robert Horry was less clutch?

What if Michael Jordan never exists? How much better do guys like Olajuwon and Malone seem?

What if Michael Beasley was a better player?

What if the NBA never had a rule that allowed you to draft a player one year ahead like Boston did when drafting Larry Bird?

[st0rmb11]

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What if growing up, Kobe Bryant had hated Jordan instead of idolizing him. Do we have near the same player?

[Chrisksaint]

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What if the Hornets kept Kobe Bryant, who knows maybe they still end up in Charlotte

What if Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf(formerly Chris Jackson), one of my favorite former LSU bball players, had actually panned out for more then a few years before just fading out

[RonnieG]

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What if growing up, Kobe Bryant had hated Jordan instead of idolizing him. Do we have near the same player?

Yeah. Its a good thing Jordan hit that shot, otherwise, Kobe might be trying to be like Craig Ehlo.

[yankeesgiants]

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Wasnt the injury one of the reasons they were in position to draft Ewing?

Stern changed the rules for the draft in the middle of the season. It had always been a coinflip of the worst team in each conference for the first pick. So Ewing should have ended up in Golden State or Indiana if the rules hadn't been changed.

[RonnieG]

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Stern changed the rules for the draft in the middle of the season. It had always been a coinflip of the worst team in each conference for the first pick. So Ewing should have ended up in Golden State or Indiana if the rules hadn't been changed.

Interesting. If thats true then how did western conference teams end up with the first two picks the year before? Was there a trade?

[Muzyk23]

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what if Pat Croce didn't resign?

[yankeesgiants]

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Interesting. If thats true then how did western conference teams end up with the first two picks the year before? Was there a trade?

In 1966, the NBA introduced the coin flip between the worst teams in each division to determine who would obtain the first overall draft pick. The team who lost the coin flip would get the second pick, while the rest of the first-round picks were determined in reverse order of the win-loss record. In this system, the second-worst team would never have a chance to obtain the first pick if it was in the same division with the worst team. The coin flip meant that both teams had an equal chance to draft first. The coin flip system was used until 1984.<SUP id=cite_ref-Inside_0-1 class=reference></SUP>


here is what lead to the lottery in the first place

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/2005/05/22/2005-05-22_the_draft_that_changed_it_al.html

[RColemanVT]

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Surprised Nobody has mentioned this one.

What if Drazen Petrovic didn't get into that accident. Would probably be the most prolific scorer in NBA history

[rangerrick012]

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Surprised Nobody has mentioned this one.

What if Drazen Petrovic didn't get into that accident. Would probably be the most prolific scorer in NBA history

Hmm...ok.