Crowley's Corner

     Hard to believe that the best basketball of all time wasn't the first overall selection or even the second. Ok not really Tom Brady is considered the best Quarterback of all time and he was a sixth-rounder and Joe Montana was a third-rounder. Heck, some of the all-time greats didn't come through the draft like Babe Ruth who was bought out by the Red Sox or Wayne Gretzky who was with the Edmonton Oilers when they entered the NHL coming from the WHA. Granted you could consider Peyton Manning, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, and Lebron James (more about him and Jordan later) an all-time greats and they were number one overall picks. Hey, wherever you can get a great player, am I right? Also, you're thinking if you're team drafts, someone, in the top five, top ten, you're hoping that player changes the fortunes of your team. There was great hype for Michael Jordan in Chicago when the Bulls got him three overall. Heck from earlier, teams tried to make a deal with th...

     There's been a lot of debate if Michael Jordan was the reason why Isiah Thomas was not on the Dream Team and in the Last Dance Documentary Jordan said If people want to blame him for that then be my guess but I didn't do it. I don't think he was the only reason why Isiah didn't make the team. Jordan wasn't the only guy that Thomas pissed off but he more than likely was the main reason why. Jack McCallum who wrote the book about the Dream Team in 2012 and recently on his podcast (the Dream Team Podcast because why not milk it for all it's worth) aired a recording of Michael saying he would not play if Isiah was on the team. Let's get to why Isiah and Michael went at it. From a previous post, Isiah Thomas was from Chicago and tried to go down in the 1981 Draft to his hometown Bulls which Jack McCloskey aka trader Jack basically said "I know what you're doing and I'll still draft you anyway" Funny how that works out. Plus Michael Jordan w...

     As you know that Michael Jordan was drafted third overall in the 1984 NBA Draft behind Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie. What some of you know, not everyone knows that there were a number of teams willing to trade up for the chance at getting Michael Jordan. So it could have been possible that Michael Jordan could have played for another team. I know you can probably say that about every player at least most players either in the draft (Joe Montana and Brady were passed by every team at least twice, for Brady five times) and during their career (Kobe Bryant in that special with Shaq said he thought he was the one going to be Traded to Chicago [how fitting] and was looking homes and schools for their kids in Chicago). Among those teams were the Dallas Mavericks (who had the 4th pick and the 15th pick as well), The Seattle Supersonics because why not, and believe or not the Houston Rockets would have had another chance to give Jordan and surprisingly said "no" and when I ...

     I started to talk about how Jordan and the Bulls could have added two rings if not for the Bad Boy Pistons in a previous post. However, I started to think about maybe if Jordan didn't take the detour to play Baseball maybe the Bulls would have won 10 titles. The downside in my opinion of Jordan's Baseball Journey. I'll admit, a part of would have like to see Michael Jordan play in the Major League and joined Bo Jackson, Brian Jordan, Deion Sanders among others playing in multiple pro sports leagues and who knows Tim Tebow might join. However, it seemed right with the world that MJ came back to the NBA. However, what would have happened if Michael Jordan decided to stay in the NBA? There's a possibility that the Bulls would have won 10 straight titles (or at least 9 out of 10 titles). Would have been something if the Bulls faced off against the Houston Rockets in the NBA Finals in 1994? They already have beaten the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1992 finals, Jordan g...

     In sports (reality and fictional) there always is this one team (or player depending on the sport), that the team (or player) needs to get through like for the Indianapolis Colts it was the New England Patriots, for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers it was the Philadelphia Eagles, for the Edmonton Oilers it was the New York Islanders, the Boston Celtics, and the Los Angeles Lakers had each other (didn't think I would do that did you?). For Jordan's Bulls, it was the Detroit Pistons aka the Bad Boys. The Bulls lost to their first two Eastern Conference Finals' appearances in 1989 and 1990 to the Pistons. You could blame them for the reason why the Bulls didn't win two more titles and Jordan could have won eight rings and also, we would have enjoyed another Michael and Magic Johnson finals matchup. The Bulls are take them to six games in 1989 and seven in 1990 and probably would have won there but Scottie Pippen had a migraine in game seven while also being guarded by Dennis ...

     ESPN hyped it back in 2019 and it was originally supposed to air in June but with Coronavirus ending/pausing live sports events it started on April 19th. Heck, not all of the episodes were finished by the time the first episode aired. Surprised they didn't only air one episode a night to give them time. Hopefully, all episodes should be completed. I know we're as of now only 60 percent into the documentary and I'm sure I'm going to talk about this in another post or several but I am talking about it now especially since I don't think I can fit everything into just one post. I believe it's as good as advertised and it's gotten a 97 percent from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic gave it a 91 percent. However, it's not without criticism. Legendary Documentarian Ken Burns has been vocality against it because Michael Jordan's production company "Jump 23" was involved with the project and it wasn't good journalism. Hey, Burns is entitled to...