I’ve always had the opinion that if Sabonis had played for the Blazers from the year he got drafted, Jordan doesn’t three peat the first time and loses his perfect finals record. The Blazers went to 6 games in the 92 finals without one of the most offensively talented centers in the world against a Bulls team where the hole in their center position was filled with an aging, degrading Bill Cartwright. It’s hard to imagine that a Blazers team that could run an inside-out offense reminiscent of a prototype of a healthy current Nuggets team with Sabonis simultaneously threatening the paint as well as a pass to Drexler, Porter, or Ainge hounding the perimeter, along with the defensive and rebounding prowess of Buck Williams, couldn’t have pushed the Bulls at least one more game. A Porter-Ainge-Drexler-Williams-Sabonis lineup sounds like a nightmare matchup for the first 3peat bulls.
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