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🗓️ 13 November 2023
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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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