Rod Thorn set to enter Hall of Fame with more than drafting Michael Jordan on his resume
by K.C. Johnson, Chicago Tribune
Sep 06, 2018
4 minutes
Rod Thorn had just finished wrapping up some other business that had prevented the Bulls general manager from attending the first training-camp practice for the 1984-85 season when he fielded a phone call from assistant coach Bill Blair.
"He said to me, 'Congratulations.' I said, 'For what?' He said, 'You didn't screw this draft up. This guy is great,' " Thorn said, chuckling, during a phone conversation about the early days of Michael Jordan. "I said, 'How can you tell after two hours?' And Bill said, 'I'm telling you, this guy is great.'
"And once I went to practice, you could tell pretty much right away he was going to be a special
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