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ON JUNE 19, 1984, several teams set themselves up for years of success, while others made haunting blunders, at the richest draft in NBA history. The haul included Akeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley, John Stockton—and Michael Jordan, left for Chicago after Portland chose medical disaster Sam Bowie. Filip Bondy's fascinating Tip-Off dissects the historic draft, whose missed possibilities are enough to make fans, or a former team president, weep. Said Dallas's Norm Sonju, "I can't talk about the 1984 draft without me crying." 
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