http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...son/060619_bias

Its a typical Scoop Jackson column. You either like his writing or you don't.

As far as Bias, a lot of people don't understand how talented Bias was because back in the early 80's the only people who really saw him were people in the ACC part fo the country, he didn't have the exposure that a big time college player would have today.

There was a interesting discussion about him on PTI a couple days ago.

I guess but I don't really remember anyone calling him MJ at the time - if you remember Brad Daugherty was picked ahead of him and Daugherty was so little thought of that the 76's traded the pick to the Cavs for Roy Hinson who was basically an All Star reserve at best

If you go by the college hype Pearl Washington would be in the Hall of Fame.

I just think when someone dies they get romanticized.

A lot of these hugely hyped guys wind up sucking which means - they sign a big contract with a team run by Isaiah Thomas

It was a nice tribute to someone that could have been but never was.. Scoop's writing generally appeals to me, but since I wasn't around to witness Bias' skills to compare them to MJ's I'm not sure... It reminds me of a movie called "The Goat" about a street legend named Earl Manigault who was supposedly the greatest player that Kareem Abdul Jabbar ever played against/watched... but was ruined by drugs, and could have been but wasnt...

Yea but no one was comparing anyone to MJ at that time. He wasnt "Jordan" yet. He was only 2 years into the league at that point. The Bias thing is such an unsolved mystery, that it gets many different points of view. No one knows if he really was a drug addict, or it was just that one time. What's unfortunate is that he lost his life, and basketball fans didnt get to see what he really could do.

Who knows, maybe he becomes a washout just like many of the other 86 draftees, or he becomes better than Jordan? We'll never know