Vintage Chicago Tribune Michael Jordan — 23 stories about No. 23
over 2 years in The Mercury
The Chicago Bulls were looking to take a center in the 1984 NBA Draft. Instead, the team settled for the best college basketball player in the United States— Michael Jordan.. “We wish he were seven feet, but he isn’ t,” Bulls general manager Rod Thorn told reporters on June 19, 1984, after taking Jordan with the No. 3 pick.