Wizards Vs. Warriors: Fake Open Game Thread For Game 8 Of Locked-Out NBA Season

by Jake Whitacre on Nov 18, 2011 5:00 PM EST in Game Threads

On November 15, 2011, the Washington Wizards were supposed to play the seventh game of their season against Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors. As a Wizards fan, you were supposed to be on here discussing the game in this open thread. Unfortunately, billionaires have decided to lock out millionaires, and millionaires are not willing to accept all the concessions the billionaires are asking them to accept.

So instead, this game thread is merely an open thread to discuss whatever the heck you all want. Below the jump, a look at a classic Wizards-Warriors game from yesteryear.

1986/87 NBA Regular Season
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10-12		14-9
December 18, 1986
At Oakland Arena
10:30 PM
HTS
Probable starters:
Ennis Whatley	PG	Sleepy Floyd
Jeff Malone	SG	Chris Mullin
Terry Catledge	SF	Larry Smith
Charles Jones	PF	Ben McDonald
Moses Malone	C	Joe Barry Carroll

Moses Malone would go off for 37 & 12 as the Bullets defeated the Warriors 128-110. Here are some random notes and oddities from the game:

There were two Number 1 overall picks in this game. One was Moses Malone. Can you figure out the other? It's OK if it takes you a second or two to figure the other one out.
Manute Bol played seven minutes and somehow managed to register an offensive rating of 0 in a game where the team as a whole registered an offensive rating of 134.
Anthony Jones (who only played one minute in the game) was taken one pick ahead of Scott Skiles in the 1986 NBA Draft. Jones would be waived less than a week after this game. Jones normally doesn't get discussed as one the Bullets biggest draft flops, but if they could have redone this pick, perhaps Skiles could have helped those late 80's teams be more than just first round fodder for the Pistons.
The Warriors were coached by George Karl, who led the Warriors to the Western Conference semifinals that season. They beat the Jazz, coached by Frank Layden (a.k.a. the Pre-Jerry Sloan era) in the first round that year.
Chris Washburn (the third overall pick in the 1986 draft) had 4 points in the game, nearly a full point more than his career average.
The Warriors only had one block in this game, and it came from 6-7 Rod Higgins.

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chris mullin is insane

I watched that one game in the 91 playoffs on NBATV where he wen 17-21 and had forty-some points… crazy stuff

by XAGMNINETY on Nov 18, 2011 6:48 PM EST reply actions

Hint: He was a Purdue Boilermaker

The other 1st overall pick….

I used to have super powers until my psychiatrist took them away.

by Rook6980 on Nov 18, 2011 9:55 PM EST reply actions

Anthony Jones (who only played one minute in the game) was taken one pick ahead of Scott Skiles in the 1986 NBA Draft.

Arvidas Sabonis and Dennis Rodman were both picked later in that same draft as well…. The Bullets had a penchant for passing on the good players, and picking the stiffs in the 80’s

The year before, the Bullets brain trust passed on Karl Malone and Joe Dumars to take the immortal Kenny Green…. AND in 1984 they took Mel Turpin rather than John Stockton…

Just think, the Bullets could have had Stockton AND Malone… instead, the Jazz, picking AFTER the Bullets, selected both.

I used to have super powers until my psychiatrist took them away.

by Rook6980 on Nov 19, 2011 12:35 AM EST reply actions