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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