Full name: Tip-Off: How the 1984 NBA Draft Changed Basketball Forever

Author: Filip Bondy Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780306816123 0306816121

The 1984 NBA draft is most remembered as the one where Michael Jordan slipped to third behind number-one pick Hakeem Olajuwon...and the immortal Sam Bowie. You could understand the Houston Rockets choosing Olajuwon, but how on earth could the Portland Trailblazers pass up Jordan for the injury-prone Bowie? For the first time, Filip Bondy pieces together the entire backstory of the draft: from Michael Jordan's indecision over whether he should declare himself eligible for the NBA draft after his junior year...to Charles Barkley's calculated attempt to avoid being drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers and to improve his position at the Olympic trials...to the trades that were considered but fatefully never made. Similar books: The Miracle of St. Anthony by Adrian Wojnarowski The Punch by John Feinstein The Last Shot by Darcy Frey The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein Heaven Is a Playground by Rick Telander The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais Loose Balls by Terry Pluto When March Went Mad by Seth Davis The Last Great Game by Gene Wojciechowski Wilt, 1962 by Gary M. Pomerantz A Season Inside by John Feinstein Boys Among Men by Jonathan Abrams Hoop Dreams by Ben Joravsky