And I'm back... this time with the 1987 NBA Draft! (You can thank an article about Justin Robinson mentioning his father and the '87 draft for inspiring this one.) I don't know about the rest of you, but as a lifelong Knicks fan some of the names on here still make me wince. I'm looking at you Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, and Reggie Miller.
All other drafts here:
(234599.44)1987 NBA DraftRound One1 - David Robinson
(33488893)2 - Armen Gilliam
(33476608) (minor typo)
3 - Dennis Hopson
(35993403) 4 - Reggie Williams
(16170480)5 - Scottie Pippen
(27327002) (say it fast and it sounds almost the same)
6 - Kenny Smith
(14846186)7 - Kevin Johnson
(16133738)9 - Derrick McKey
(38387831) (minus the Mc)
10 - Horace Grant
(16426830)11 - Reggie Miller
(32557924)13 - Joe Wolf
(16100480)15 - José Ortiz
(10543267)17 - Ronnie Murphy
(10143800)18 - Mark Jackson
(16130760)19 - Ken Norman
(33368968)20 - Jim Farmer
(9946417)21 - Dallas Comegys
(19584940) (okay fine, not that close, but a very cool name)
22 - Reggie Lewis
(30649805)23 - Greg "Cadillac" Anderson
(27271794) (minus the Cadillac)
Round Two24 - Freddie Banks
(31647900)25 - Ron Moore
(41516026)26 - Steve Alford
(19087813)27 - Nate Blackwell
(26924051)28 - Rickie Winslow
(4487027) (slight typo)
29 - Lester Fonville
(2115429) (if you really squint)
30 - Nikita Wilson
(41480770) (Niko to his friends)
31 - Andre Moore
(13945845) (so close)
32 - Bob McCann
(19243684)33 - Tony White
(18904492)34 - Brian Rowsom
(9199854) (he changed it after Harry Potter)
35 - Doug Lee
(34772319)36 - Duane Washington
(8414110)37 - Derrick Dowell
(22108456)38 - Norris Coleman
(32512191)39 - Vincent Askew
(28421210)40 - Winston Garland
(7290418) (almost)
41 - Kannard Johnson
(8369904) (but you can call him Kenny)
42 - Terrance Bailey
(27118743)43 - Andrew Kennedy
(28938220)45 - Brad Lohaus
(4821554) (he changed it to honor Lindsay)
Round Three47 - Tim McCalister
(25777951) (McCall for short)
48 - Jamie Waller
(20723662)49 - Jerome Batiste
(43460620) (his friends call him Batty)
51 - Sven Myer
(26302854) (almost)
52 - Donald Royal
(15986563)54 - Tom Schafer
(39806565)55 - Tommy Amaker
(20329062) (with a bizarre lisp? strong cold?)
56 - John Fox
(17661190)57 - Hansi Gnad
(30132407) (don't look too closely)
58 - Darryl Johnson
(26434919)59 - Danny Pearson
(24034950)60 - Sean Couch
(10163236)61 - Clarence Martin
(25317902)62 - Eric Riggins
(29468521)63 - Kevin Gamble
(28743515)64 - J.J. Weber
(25481275) (lost the second J somewhere)
65 - Eric White
(19288842)66 - Mike Richmond
(9196891)67 - Song Tao
(33299376) (what's a Ching between friends?)
68 - Billy Donovan
(40787400)69 - Willie Glass
(33508081)Rounds four through seven coming soon. (Yes, there were seven rounds!) Chris Dudley - Knicks fan favorite and erstwhile political candidate - went in the fourth. I was going to offer a prize to anyone who recognized names in the seventh round, but I think I've already spotted three college coaches - Jamie Dixon, Curtis Hunter, and Mark Gottfried. Go figure.
I guess the real question is when I'll hit the character limit wall on this draft and have to start a new thread.....
...and the answer is now. More rounds coming in the next post here:
(234599.49).
Last edited by IronDoofus at 8/17/2017 10:57:39 AM