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Barkley: Michael Jordan Should Have Drafted Brandon Roy

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Steve DelVecchio of LarryBrownSports.com has quotes from a recent ESPN Radio interview of TNT commentator Charles Barkley in which he says that he told Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan to draft former Portland Trail Blazers All-Star guard Brandon Roy in the 2006 NBA Draft. ------------------------------- "I love Michael, but he just has not done a good job. Even though he is one of my great friends, I can’t get on here and tell you he’s done a great job. He has not done a great job, plain and simple." ... "I said ‘Michael, I think you should take Brandon Roy, and he said ‘We like Adam Morrison,’" Barkley said. "I said ‘Adam Morrison can’t play.’ I said ‘let me ask you a question, did you say Adam Morrison first and (the Bobcats front office staff) agreed with you or did they say Adam Morrison first?’ He said ‘What do you mean?’ I said ‘Michael, nobody wants to disagree with you. You are such a powerful personality nobody, especially your flunkies as I call them, the flunkies are never going to disagree with you.’ Adam Morrison is a nice kid. He can’t play in the NBA." ------------------------------- -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com | Twitter