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The night Michael Jordan (allegedly) drafted TJ Ford

Jeff Howe
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Today is the anniversary of the historic 2003 NBA Draft, which featured TJ Ford going No. 8 overall to the Milwaukee Bucks.

A few years ago, I was listening to a Bill Simmons podcast with Chad Ford (ESPN’s draft guy in 2003), who told the following story about how Michael Jordan was in the process of buying the Bucks on draft night in ‘03. Ford said his sources in Milwaukee told him that the Bucks took the player MJ wanted with the eighth pick, which was TJ.

MJ didn’t end up buying the team. Still, I think it’s a cool story:

 

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