What ACTUALLY Happened To Every #1 Pick From The 1980's?
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2023
- What ACTUALLY Happened To Every #1 Pick From The 1980's?
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These dudes was 18 looking like 35 year old stern father figures 😂😂😂 good vid
Lolll
So great to see Ralph Sampson getting the recognition he deserves! Listen, Wembanyama is certainly generational. But the narrative that someone like him has never been seen in the history of the game is utter nonsense. Great video!!
They play nothing alike, we’ve never seen Victor before
@@Remmyrouser yep. Sampson was far quicker. Also: Bol Bol.
@@TheCdubbleyooSampson wasn't shooting 3s and crossing people at 7'6 my guy also bol bol isn't as skilled as wenbenyama he was the prototype
If not for the injury Ralph Sampson would really have a HoF career (even thou he was inducted late) might have some couple of championship and maybe a mvp season. For me he is much better than Hakeem minus the injury. He is the first point center in the nba
Ralph Sampson was overrated and a bust
My aunt - who was the biggest Warriors fan on the planet (God rest her soul) used to call Joe Barry Carroll "Joe Barely Cares."
I hope she was with us long enough to see the modern warriors. Some all time dominance in those years
And LASTLY, Olajuwon didn't see his opportunity because of Jordan's break, the team came together that year. Look at the season games they played, and you see fairly even results. I'd argue that those Rockets teams would have been the hardest draw of the Bulls Finals opponents. Further, Jordan's return didn't signal the end of the Rockets' championship window. It wasn't the Bulls that beat them in 96 & 97. The closing of the Rockets championship window was the trade of Bob Horry and Sam Cassell for Chuck Barkley.
The Rockets had a solid record on their first championship, which actually had a 15 game winning streak early in the season, plus not so many losses. Then they coast to the finals beating the Knicks, which they got very lucky getting the benefit of the calls (I’m not even a knicks fan nor even live in ny)
Their 2nd championship is they wouldn’t succeed if not for the trade of Clyde Drexler, yes it was still Hakeem’s team and they went to 6th place in the west division standings, but the arrival of Drexler made the difference. The Rockets had so many good and better solid role and bench players defeating the Knicks and the Magic. Look at the other careers of the Rockets players besides Olajuwon and Drexler. Horry, Cassel, Smith, maxwell, Brown, Thorpe and among others when they went to other teams
Nobody was going to beat Olajuwon at that point
@@kennethpage417 your entire statement is trash and tha problem with nba discourse
Yeah it's not like Jordan had prevented Hakeem from winning a title before. He was getting beaten in the playoffs by people like Magic Johnson, Dale Ellis and Ricky Pierce.
He's repeating the NBA narrative of the time, also with Jordan back Chicago was a good team but not especially a championship favorite, especially with an aging Parish and unremarkable Perdue, they still needed Rodman to slow down guys like Hakeem and Shaq and there's not even a mention of him.
FINALLY!! Thank you for realizing that the NBA was great and had superstar players long before the 2000s.
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@@LockdownKshow me 1 ring of jordan. Hakeem won alone. Jordan is nobody.
@@LockdownKwhy u lie so much ? Admiral never lost to hakeem. U mean drexler and hakeem. Shalk we call bird to sweep jordan u deranged
David Robinson knew Tim Duncan was the future of the Spurs and let Duncan live with him during Duncan's rookie year. Although, Duncan was destined to be great, I think this helped propel him to become even greater.
Two professional players who had no ego that’s why they co-exist. Unlike other superstar players that didn’t co-exist. Like Kobe Bryant when he became a known superstar with so much hype couldn’t exist with Shaq, when he grown to have championships his horns also grew. Shaq was the main man of the Lakers couldn’t wait to become the focal point of the Lakers, Shaq’s time will fade and he can be the top tier and Shaq will be the 2nd option. Look at Magic and Kareem no egos, the Lakers team was Kareem’s team, but when his prime deteriorated, he understood that it will be Magic’s team and not his team anymore. Same goes to the other greats, that’s why not all superteams that formed will have many more multiple championships, unless they give way and have no egos. Salute to Robinson and Duncan
They both wanted to do what was best for the team. Robinson was a good man to be role model for Duncan, and it gave them both better careers
Man, you have been doing great with this stuff. I love the split focus between on and off court accomplishments, and how you paint a full picture of a player's career.
(I don't think Mark Aguirre reaches the level of Hall of Famer. Amazing career, the likes that get you adulation beyond your mortal time, but not quite up there with the best of the best)
Yup I agree with you had some solid numbers with a bottom team but couldn’t get them to the playoffs. Unlike Jordan, Bird, Webber, Iverson, LbJ and other greats, when they went to their respective teams that drafted them, the teams that were playing became playoff contenders every season
Aguirre is just like Demarcus Cousins when he was on the Kings, then went downward after that
Mark Arguire def deserves a hall of fame spot he doesn’t have the total accolades but he’s hall of fame worthy for his play not just on the mavericks but his play on 2 championships and many solid years
Ralph Sampson - greatest college basketball player of all time. It's a shame injuries plagued his pro career.
Damn the 1980s number 1 picks were good
Yes. Mark Aguirre should be a Hall of Famer. 100%. There’s people in the HOF that don’t deserve it.
There are more players deserving to be on the HoF than Aguirre. As a #1 pick it’s easy to average double digit or even more than 20 points, on a low bottom team that is their only star, he was like Demarcus Cousins when playing with the Kings, had solid numbers but couldn’t get the team to the playoffs. Greatness like LbJ, Jordan, Webber, Iverson and among others had garbage teams, but when they arrived on the teams that they were playing in, their teams become playoff contenders every year
No question. The only thing that stopped Aguirre and the Mavs from several Finals appearances was the Showtime Lakers. And then he became the piece that unlocked two championships for The Pistons, who were unable to to get there with Adrian Dantley (who is a Hall of Famer).
Yeah like toni kukoc, and Bill walton
I agree
@@kennethpage417 A low bottom team where he is the only star? Aguirre played with Rolando Blackman and Sam Perkins. Dallas made the playoffs but they couldn’t get past the Lakers. If you didn’t know anything about Mark or the Mavericks why comment?
Russell retired in 1969, Wilt in 73, and ABA merger was in 76. The NBA had adapted pretty well by the time the 70’s ended and the 80’s began.
I don’t know how old you are and I’m glad you’re highlighting this time period and with all that said the game hit a point of stagnation in terms of TV recognition though the game had the ABA merger the mid 70’s until 1980 was like a dark age for the NBA. The Lakers were bad, the Celtics were bad and the Knicks were bad after coming from their glory days of the early 70’s so as a situation of marketing there was no big city team in the spotlight consistently and there was no repeat champion for the entire decade and most of all a lot of advertisers backed away because the NBA had a reputation of constant fighting so when Bird and Magic came along it was a shot of adrenaline because most notably they elevated Boston and Los Angeles, two cities TV and the advertisers were clamoring for and that’s when the turnaround began.
I wasn't alive to see that era but I believe the problem was the dilution of talent that came with the league expansion as I saw how it affected the game too in the mid 90s. They had to invent something and came up with the 3-pt line in 1979-80 or so, the mid-90s also tried to make scoring easier which unfortunately for the game was abused by players like Shaq.
Ralph Sampson, if he could have stayed healthy, would have been one of the greatest ever.
Agreed
I appreciate that you included their post playing careers as well into your video.
You bet
Congrats to the 10k subs! Great video as always keep up the good work!
Preciate you G!
Fun fact: since the ABA-NBA merger, there have only been two stretches of at least three years when number one picks have become HoFers or future HoFers: 1982-85 (Worthy, Sampson, Hakeem, Ewing) and 2002-04 (Yao, LeBron, Dwight)
Depends on what we view John wall as then we could say 2010-2012 tbh some of the guys in the HOF have significant inferior stats compared to wall, I’m reaching but if announcers can make it then wall can make it as well
@@tyblandonJohn wall is not making the HOF he just wasn't good enough for long enough to make it.
John Wall is better than Jerry West and Bob cousy
@@youngbarrel-roll4649That is a joke, isn't it!?
@@hiryxz John Wall doesn’t even have a Conference final to his name
Mark aguire definetly has a hall of fame resume.
2x nba champ
18K+ points
14 season career
3 time nba all star
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Had some solid numbers on a garbage team then traded pog went down and then have a championship riding a bus
Demarcus Cousins was like that on the Kings, their only star player but couldn’t get the team to become a playoff contenders. Jordan, LbJ, Webber, Iverson and among other great HoF. They went to a garbage teams but when they came playing on their respective teams, those teams became instant playoff contenders every season
@@kennethpage417took the prime showtime lakers to 7 games in the ecf but ok
I remember reading about Mark Aguirre in college.
They brought him into the arena in a wheelchair before a game and got up and scored 40 points.
Olajuwon was never Sampson sidekick. The Rockets moved 7'4 Ralph Sampson to power forward and moved the 6'11 Olajuwon to the center position immediately. Olajuwon added 19 wins to the Rockets his rookie season and lead them to the playoffs, something Ralph never did. Olajuwon is easily the greatest #1 pick of all time and the only player in NBA history to retire top 10 in points, rebounds, steals and blocks
I don't think Hakeem played football in the 50s either, as this video seems to suggest.
@@Ometecuhtli Hakeem played, volleyball,soccer,and handball in his teenage years
Awesome footage. Great job 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
This man's underrated, got my sub
Preciate you big homie!
Purvis Ellison was not suited to play Center when he was drafted by Sacramento Too undersized in that era. He should have been a PF.
Ralph Sampson was Victor Wembanyama before him...
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Mark Aguire not being in the hof but Ralph Sampson getting inducted is criminal
Sampson is in the Hall because of his college career.
Sampson had more better numbers than Aguirre (minus the injury) with a playoff or even championship contending team, while Mark had good numbers on a lowly garbage team on that era
awesome video!
side note - Robinson won championships in 99 and 03.
With today's training techniques and medications the old school guys would have been unstoppable
Mark Aguire is properly rated.. He couldn't lead a bad mavs team and he only has rings because he and slimey IT played politics and stole Adrian Dantleys rings.. Dude is acting like Mark was the missing piece and the injuries in the season before that went to game 7.. They didnt need him, and the REAL hall of famer out of the two is in there.. No research at all
Thank you, finally some one with some common sense
They got you popping up on auto play for me 🔥🔥getting to it man💪videos are sick I wish could do this I used to love basketball
I appreciate you G! and I am happy that you are liking the videos!
Met Brad Daugherty at the race in Sonoma. Brad is a really nice guy got his autograph and a picture super nice guy.
Great content, SUBSCRIBED!
Awesome, thank you!
Another great video
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Ewing didn’t get outplayed his teammates did
Thank you for this video
Welcome!
I remember James Worthy playing the Klingon 😂
ayy throwback!
Big Game James
Winning a Finals MVP on a team with Magic and Kareem
Olajuwon Ewing and Robinson 3 of my heroes as a kid Daugherty was super underrated on those Cavs teams are you doing the 70s next
maybe doing the 70's still deciding on it though
@@LockdownKwhy decide (just like Nike) just do it
lolll haha alright then lets do it!
Excellent information. James Worthy should be in the hall of fame.
Nah Joe Barry Carroll is actually so underrated yeah he was a 1st overall pick traded for 2 hall of famers but he was all star level for years and had great seasons for the Warriors
I never heard that KKK story about Patrick Ewing... Damn, I thought I was a Knicks fan.
It’s true. Pat once discussed it. He was close to going Tar Heels until he saw the Klan rally plus he said he felt a connection with John Thompson. Thompson immediately became a father figure to him.
Mark Aguirre should be in the Hall of Fame only because it’s the basketball hall instead of the NBA hall because it’s the Basketball Hall of Fame college careers are included as well, so a player can be in just on his college career. I’ve always said the NBA should have its own. It’s the only major sport aside from the
NFL
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That does this.
04:40 omg his own publishing company published HIS books?? no way....
Harrisburg is in Pennsylvania. Ralph Sampson went to Harrisonburg High School
Hakeem is my 2nd favorite player all time, right behind Arvydas Sabonis. Sorry, I have regional bias since I'm from Portland and Sabonis could have been the best center ever had he started when Portland drafted him. The fact that he was still SO good even after injuries and being a much older rookie is a testament to his skills. But, Hakeem really is second to none. Just watch what he did to a young Shaq in the finals. Superb!
I swear like a month ago i realized Sabonis had a son lol, not sure how I didn't pick that up before
He was really great for Portland!
I agree, when Sabonis came to Portland he was not the prime Sabonis anymore, but still played great on that team, can shoot outside and inside, still have a little quickness despite his size and age, if only Sabomis came right to Portland on his prime, Drexler would already have a championship before he chased a ring in Houston. Assuming that Sam Bowie never got the injury that he went through m, plus with Drexler and a young Sabonis, the Portland will have a really solid lineup. In fairness to Sam Bowie, they said he was like a draft bust, I don’t think he was a draft bust, it just happened that he had acquired a career ending injury just like Sampson. I’m not saying that Jordan is not a better player, MJ was miles ahead a better player, but since the Portland got Clyde that’s the reason they have chosen Bowie over MJ, it just happened that Sam Bowie at the beginning of his career already have a knee issue, which the team doctor said it was okay, Bowie already have the injury when he was still in college. Bowie was not a bad selection, it just became bad because of the situation that happened, plus the way MJ played, even nobody thought that MJ would be that great, everyone knows that they expect MJ to be great, but MJ more than exceeded that expectation with his high flying acrobatic dunks. (Coming from a Laker fan)
I love your response! The sam bowie situation was truly tragic, and I agree with no one saw MJ becoming that good. I often look back into MJ's time in college and early years in the league, and I still never saw all time legendary in him! I could see him being a top player but nothing stood out as once in a lifetime greatness
But if we're talking Sabonis already at Portland, Sam Bowie doesn't get drafted by them and so Jordan comes in at #2 pick with Drexler moving to small forward and we're talking about a super Blazers dynasty with Sabonis, Drexler and Jordan. Imagine their matchups with the Kareem, Sampson, Magic, Worthy Lakers!@@LockdownK
that would of been crazy!!!!
Bruh that lineup!!!! 26:12😂😂😂
great vid!
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New here bro I love your vids keep it up
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Nice nod to The Hitchhiker’s Guide!
Finalllllly somebody noticed lol I have been waiting for this comment
@@LockdownK I can't believe I'm the first. I put this up figuring I was not the only one to do so!! You're welcome!! Maybe your audience aren't much into scifi?
I guess not haha. I may need to go start a movie based youtube channel next lol
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People forget how insanely good Ewing was because he never had the team behind him to back it up and he had the unfortunate luck of existing in the league at the same time of two of the best to ever play - Jordan and Olajuwon. A finger roll different and not coming up against prime Bulls constantly in conference finals and we would be talking about Ewing as a ring holding hall of fame legend. Big Knicks fan, so he will eternally have my respect.
Olajuwon had just the luxury of having more more good solid role and bench players than Ewing. Same goes to Robinson when the Spurs faces the Rockets, Robinson was the only true superstar on that team, and don’t have the materials and the necessary teammates to become a champion (b4 d arrival of Tim) Ewing have beaten Olajuwon in the ncaa
The problem was they tried to make them a "though" team using the Pistons model while the players didn't really buy that system and others were too hot headed (Starks) to be able to work under that system.
@@Ometecuhtli it was just unfortunate that Ewing was only the true lonesome consistent all-star on the Knicks team, unlike Olajuwon’s team
I've played and still have David Robinson's Supreme Court on Megadrive. A correct game, for a 1992 basketball simulation, but it wasn't closed to NBA Jam. But when you habe only that as a basketball game, you deal with it. 😄
Dope video
The 80s #1 picks definitely have the least busts compared to every decade. Crazy.
MOST stayed in college UNTIL their junior or senior college careers.
It makes a difference.
it really does
Some became draft busts because of the injury (ex: Greg Oden) Some became a draft bust because they were a prospect but never live up to the expectation (ex: Kwame Brown)
@@kennethpage417 True, and some of them had ZERO business being the #1 pick, but the prospect list was that weak (ex: Anthony Bennett)
nice vid.
I remember that draft like it was yesterday,and the Houston Rockets made the Best deal in their history by choosing Hakeem Olajuwon.
I wouldn't change Hakeem Olajuwon for MJ at anytime or under any circunstance.
Hakeem Olajuwon was the Real Deal, the "Dream".
The best draft in NBA History the 1984 one.
PS: i wonder why some people put Shaquille O'Neal above Hakeem on some lists( are so many) of the Best players ( centers) in the history of the game.
Must be this younger generation that never seen Hakeem Olajuwon play for real.
Hakeem Olajuwon "Eats" Shaquille O'Neal in every aspect of the game, with no doubt whatsoever.
One of the Greatest Ever.
Seeing Shaq vs The Dream both in their primes would of been amazing!
29:12 Supreme Court was fun and aggravating at the same time… it was overshadowed by Bulls Vs Lakers and the NBA Finals which had dropped…. Now THAT game series ( Lakers vs Celtics was the first) was fun!!!
I'd have no problem with Mark Aguirre getting in the Hall. Him and Mark Price are sort of seen as that "great but not HOF great". Amazingly, James Worthy is a bit underrated because he got buried in the Bird/Magic hype.
Aguirre was one of the all time best at scoring in the post. And Mark Price would flourish in the current NBA. He’s the only nba player I’ve ever seen who can run at a full sprint down the court, then immediately stop on a dime and make his shots. He use to cook the Bulls regularly during the Jordan era.
He deserves a spot in the hof there’s more players with less than Aguirre
2:04 nah 19 and 9 even for a 1st overall pick is Elite especially for a rookie
Big Game James has the quickest first step in history.
Ralph was a 6'8 sf in a 7'4 body with glass knees
David Robinson playing in today's NBA would eat. He had a good jumper, so he would hit 3s easily. He would have been more on the wing. He was super athletic too. . As a Lakers fan, he would always give us the business. Him and Tim Duncan 😂....
Robinson is an under rated center, it just happened (b4 d arrival of Tim) that he hadn’t had enough great role and bench teammates, unlike Olajuwon who had teammates that are far way better than Robinsons’s teammates. Olajuwon was just fortunate that the Rockets team and the management had put up solid pieces that would battle for the championship
Both Olajuwon and Robinson had good pieces at the start of their careers (Ralph Sampson in Houston, Cummings and Hot Rod in SA) but both organizations squandered their chances by making head scratching decisions (what was Rodman doing in SA? Olajuwon's supporting cast before their championship was mediocre). Houston made the 1st move in 1993, great guards, dependable bench and all-around much better team, San Antonio wouldn't prosper until Duncan's arrival which was pure luck as there's no way to get that type of team with a healthy David & Elliot. Tim was also much more vocal, people criticize Lebron as "LeGM" but back then Duncan threatened to leave for Orlando and demanded a new stadium, which the people of San Antonio paid for with a city tax.
@@Ometecuhtli had no idea about that kind of new stadium. But during those Robinson and Olajuwon battle against each other on the West (the season the Rockets won B2B) Olajuwon had the luxury of having more good teammates and deep bench rosters, (Smith,Horry, Maxwell, Cassel, Drexler and among others, just look at the careers of that other players after they left the team (not the aging ones like Drexler who is a late addition) While Robinson only had Elliot which I can say another all star player. It’s just like the same as experts would say, Bill Russel always had won the chip against Wilt, having the luxury of playing with great teammates helps you propel even more. Just look at how many HoF teammates that Russel had compared to Wilt. Robinson and Olajuwon is actually equal or even in terms of playing, both players had done quadruple double stats, which is a very unique and hard thing to do, so both of them have greatness in their skillset, but in overall agility, quickness and ability I pick Robinson (only by an inch) over Olajuwon, their matchup was just Olajuwon had the benefit of having more good teammates. Robinson’s only luxury is when Tim arrived in SA.
When it's said that Samson and Hakeem went to the 96 finals, it was actually the 86 finals that they made
It never fails how when a player career goes south, that final blow is always the wife divorcing him, sad and unloyal, no commitment...
Pervis lookin’ like the long lost twin of Hot Rod Williams in the thumbnail.
ddeeaadd
Yup I was thinking like they are twins or maybe related to each other
I’m sick of losing to Purdue!
- Bobby Knight
not a bum in the whole decade.....pervis was the only one that was not a stud, but like danny ainge said, outta service pervis...injuries sapped his career
Literally
Aguirre and Thomas were friends, but Mark lived in East Garfield Park and Isiah lived in North Lawndale. Miles apart…..
If James Worthy was a junior in 1982 then he was a sophomore in 1981.
I completely forgot about 'Joe Barely Cares'. Speaks to his sad contribution at the highest level.
Pervis Ellison won MIP in 1992, averaging 20 ppg, but didn't build on that success and regressed.
Oh really thanks for the info, but that guy on the video mentioned it
Hell yeah!!!!! The only bad move he made was embracing team camaraderie to win championships,how many stat stuffers made the H.O.F.
The draft consisted of twenty rounds and selected 218 players. Draftee career notes Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) from UCLA was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks. He went on to win the Rookie of the Year Award and was selected to both All-NBA Second Team and All-Star Game in his first season.
how about a video of all the other players drafted in the 69 draft. please
Ill check it out!
60’s would be much better
Brad Daugherty’s jersey number is the same as Richard Petty’s car number.
Interesting! Didn't know thay
I also think that there's going to suffer the same fate as Ralph because he doesn't want to get bigger and he doesn't try and get bigger and so his body could cause him injuries like we'll get Kd I think it's going to cause him a lot of injuries if he doesn't get bigger I think that's why he'll be a bust
How did Ewing give NY Nix their best years? That was the 70s🏆🏆
Mark Augite was not traded to Detroit in the summer of '88. He was traded during the 88-89 season right before the trade deadline.
Valentine's day 89
According to Isiah, he tanked the interview because he didn’t want to get drafted to Detroit, which was basically like Detroit now, but throw in the LA Riots
David Robinson sega game was fire. 🔥 They renamed it nba action and it became nba2k later
Thats some lore I never knew!
I'd say that it's common enough for people born in the capital of Nigeria to be born to Nigerian parents that you don't have to worry about stating that they're parents are Nigerian ;-) .
I’m not only is David Robinson’s game, but I also played Bill Laimbeer’s game back in the day.
Bill lambier had a video game???
You mean Bill Lameduck 😂
lolllllll
@@LockdownK I think it's called "Final Fight"
I'll have to check it out!
Ewing was a monster 💪🏾. No Larry Johnson, Chris Webber, Stacy Augman?
I take it you're young. Olajuwon was *never* Sampson's sidekick, and Jordan leaving had literally nothing to do with the Rockets winning those titles. The Rockets are the single team with a winning record during the Jordan era, and Olajuwon noticeably aged in the '96 season. Pretty simple.
Stop saying if a player from the past would’ve survived today’s game as the guy asked about Sampson and just take into account of how they played in their specific time, because most times people who don’t know the game end up belittling the player from the past. So no stop asking a pointless question.
I’ve always said I’d take Hakeem over Shaq any day and even Shaq admitted he couldn’t handle Hakeem.
Mark Aguirre should become HOF with his significant contribution to pistons's back to back championship compare to mitch richmond who become HOF and only took the kings to playoff one time and had minor role in lakers championship and his claimed to fame was member of run tmc and 6 time allstar
Patrick Ewing also got the Knicks to the finals as an no. 8 seed in 1999, but by that time he was hurting the team. Nagging injuries meant he would be in and out of the lineup. I say he was hurting the team because they won most of the games in which he didn't play and lost most of the games in which he did play. The Knicks lost to the Spurs in five games, the first championship for that franchise, Tim Duncan and Gregg Popovich.
His selflessness n chips based on the fact he could've been that guy he what Zeke say push that ish aside n got cemented in the pantheon as a 2x 🏆🏆 give bra his jac🪙🧥
80s did not miss at all ,few injuries Sampson, Daughtry and Manning. All 9 players was Good to Great players.
🙏🏾YES,Aguirre Hall of FAME!💪🏽🏀
More to the point re Sampson skipping the 82 Draft, he’s discussed more than once that he didn’t want the 50% chance of the Clippers winning the coin flip. In 82, there were still open loopholes that allowed him to return to school well after knowing that the Lakers and Clippers were in the coin toss for the first pick. I have a Sampson interview with Chick Hearn circa 84 where Ralph himself admitted that as the reason. Of course, content from 1984 isn’t that prevalent, but I used to have it on my chan before the NBA blocked 99% of my recaps. However, the Clipper thing was discussed as NBA gossip at that time, so it was a known thing. And Worthy in his jersey retirement ceremony in 95/6 thanked God (literally) that the Cliops lost that toss. Forum crowd loved it, but going to Sterling instead of Showtime was a terrifying thought for the top 82 candidates.
Actually going to watch that video now appreciate you
Wow didn’t know that the legendary Chick Hearn had interviewed Ralph Sampson and questioned that. This could have been another kind of “WHAT IF” Ralph Sampson applied for the draft in 82’ and went to the Lakers teaming up with Kareem and Magic, the Lakers would have their own version of twin towers, just like the Wilt and Bill era, (not as teammates) Jabbar era then the passing of the baton to Sampson’s era (minus the injury) the Lakers would surely more than dominate the league (even thou they have dominated the 80’s together with the Celts) Wished the Lakers have acquired Ralph Sampson and Len Bias played with the Celtics. It will be a much more great battle and rivalries between those two teams, even going to the early 90’s. So MJ will only dominate the mid 90’s or maybe not because Bias will be his opponent, with Lewis also not having the kind of career that had happened. Wonder if Hank Gathers made it to the nba which team would he played for? But James Worthy would still have a solid nba career and a franchise player on whichever team he went, even the great Chick Hearn and some announcers acknowledges James Worthy, that they stated even if Big Game James went to other team, he will be their franchise player that will produce a much more solid numbers, and will still be a consistent perennial all-star player
That would literally change NBA History!
Oh my. Here we go it’s a black thing as always. 🤮
JB Carroll was a solid center, and in his first 6 seasons he avg'd about 22 pts and 8.3 rpg, maybe he didn't have the best supporting role, but 22/8 is solid.
Mark Aguirre averaged about 25 pts on 50 pct shooting for his first 7 seasons, 20 ppg for his career. not bad!
James worthy would have average 27 ppg, as i can estimate, if he was on his "own" team
Big Game James would average more if he wasn’t on the Lakers. Some announcers even said that even if James Worthy was on another team, he would be their franchise player
James Worthy was Pippen before Pippen.
DO THE VIDEO on David Robinson.
I had season tickets to the Warriors starting in the 1997-98 season when I was just 8. Sitting in front of us was this old couple. Probably late 50s, early 60s. The man was leather-lunged and I loved him. He'd rant and rave. Huge homer. Sometimes he'd go on tirades about how much he hated Al Attles, the head coach/GM who did the Joe Barely Cares trade. "If Red Auerbach is telling you what a good deal it is, you should know damn well it's a shit deal! Al 'Attles! Three time all-star, fifty time f*cking rube! Did you know we could have had (insert name of guy Golden State passed over in the draft) if not for Attles?!" Some of his claims were dubious, but whenever John Stockton played, he brought up how Attles passed over Stockton, and then he'd go on a rant about drafting Chris Washburn, saying Attles must have been on whatever Washburn was on to draft him. Without fail. I miss that guy. He'd compare every dirty play to either Danny Ainge or Bill Laimbeer, and without fail, he'd say "I take it back. I take it back. Nobody was worse than Laimbeer. God, what a piece of shit that guy was!" I'm sure that old fart must be dead by now but sometimes I have dreams where I'm a kid seeing the awful late 90s/early 2000s Warriors and that guy is there, screaming like a banshee.
I appreciate you sharing this! That is amazing!
I was litterally dead when I read " I take it back. I take it back. Nobody was worse than Laimbeer" my dad alwayysss is saying some stuff about Lambier's dirty play style
Hahaha I remember Johnny M. expletive words on Laimbeer 😂
lolll
Ralph Sampson was Wemby before Wemby ....
Shows exactly what Wemby's achilles heel could be...
Health
Or Yao Ming, even with modern medicine it's still hard to be big & healthy.
The Sampson story is a bit conflicting how can you be traded for personally issues but then you have people standing up for his character the math ain’t mathin
Why i never heard of Joe. What hook shot he had 🔥
Yeah I think Mark Aguirre should be in the hall of fame
The teams with the first two picks are probably pretty upset with themselves for passing up on MJ
Edit: I guess Houston shouldn't be upset but Portland definitely should
Portland fans are still turning in their grave till this day
but also Houston fans aren't tripping over it they LOOVVEEE Hakeem!
Yeah no. No Houston fan would be upset with Hakeem, even with MJ and his legacy going 2 picks later
@@thebestcentaurYeah I guess so. Still having Jordan would have been nice
Jordan himself had The Dream as the center for his all time starting 5
@@BenjaminPhilipps59they actually had a chance for Hakeem mj and Clyde Portland was discussing trading pick 2 and Clyde for Ralph Sampson. Imagine that team 💀
Dan Dakich isn’t a reporter?!?!
The Lakers made some trades that landed them Magic, Kareem, Worthy and Wilkes.
80's > 90's