Why is not drafting Clyde Drexler considered a great mistake in Jazz history?
Big T is cool and all but he’s not a Top 50 NBA player.
A lineup of Malone, Stockton and Drexler would have dominated the West for a decade.
What are your thoughts about this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_NBA_draft
by muaritania
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We could play the what if game all day
What if we drafted Kawhi, CP3, Booker, Giannis, Jokic, etc…
Pretty much every team can play this game. It’s not unique to the Jazz.
Going down the list, it’s not exactly a stacked draft… Ralph Sampson makes sense and Clyde being Sampson’s teammate should’ve upped his stock. But Thurl won a national championship with Jimmy V against Ralph Sampson! In retrospect it’s hard to fault the Jazz over that selection.
It’s not like 13 other teams missed out too. It was a bigs league. Taking a PF to pair with AD made sense.