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Edge of Sports

Basketball Butterfly Effect: 1993 Draft

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In Part 5 of our series, Basketball Butterfly Effect, Arya Shirazi joins the show again to discuss the 1993 NBA draft and a crucial trade that takes place that changes the course of 90s basketball. You don’t want to miss this episode!



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0:00.0

Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast, brought to you by the Nation magazine.

0:15.2

I'm Dave Diren. This week, we are going back to the Basketball Butterfly Effect series with

0:20.4

Piscuitantio, Aria Chiraz aria shirot. Basketball butterfly effects when we look at graph

0:26.1

decisions that came out how the NBA world as we now know it would have been dramatically

0:32.3

altered if a critical decision had gone in the other direction. So far we've looked at the 2003 draft and asked what the world would be like to

0:41.3

have existed as to come out with Anthony instead of Darko Milichit.

0:45.0

We looked at the 1996 draft and asked what if the Charlotte Hornets had held on to future

0:50.5

legend and a year old Kobe B. Ryan instead of trading into the Lakers for the

0:55.6

paint-huffing, Virginia, slim, sucking, glade divots. And we wonder how history would have been

1:05.2

different if in 1984 the Portland Trailblazers with the number two pick had resisted big sexy Sam Bowie and gone with this guy named Michael Jordan.

1:15.6

We also on a more serious note looked at the 1986 Land Bias draft and asked what could have been.

1:22.6

But tonight we have a good one.

1:25.6

We go to the 1993 draft and a forgotten trade that if it had never happened well, we'd be living in a much different world.

1:35.9

1993, the first pick in the draft was held by the Orlando Magic. This was a little weird because they had improved dramatically the previous season from being utterly hideous to 41 and 41, thanks to rookie center and aspiring rapper Shaquille O'Neal, aka Shaq Foo.

1:56.0

And somehow, through the draft lottery, they got the number one pick, and they picked the consensus

2:02.0

choice, Michigan All-American Chris Weber.

2:05.4

They even put Shaq on the phone with him, and they talked on live TV about how no one

2:10.9

would ever get a rebound again when they play the magic.

2:14.7

Then, with the number two pick, the 76ers of course, they select Sean Bradley,

2:20.2

rest in peace. And with the third pick, the Golden State Warriors selected Anfernie Penny Hardaway,

2:29.9

a brilliant tall point guard out of Memphis. And I remember this too.

2:34.6

They immediately put him on the phone with Tim Hardaway, and they joshed about an all Hardaway

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