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Article: MANU-VERS HAUNT NBA.(Sports)(Column)

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June 14, 2005
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Byline: Dave Krieger, Rocky Mountain News

TROY, Mich. -- In honor of the upcoming NBA draft, and in the interest of preventing teams from screwing it up as badly as they did six years ago, it is probably worth examining how the star of the Finals was passed over 56 times.

"These so-called basketball geniuses, I swear, man, sometimes it makes me wonder who's hiring these people," Pistons reserve Darvin Ham told me the other day.

Actually, Ham was talking not about the Spurs' Manu Ginobili, the star passed over 56 times in 1999, but the Pistons' Chauncey Billups, who was jettisoned by five NBA teams. Still, his point is well taken, not to mention ...

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