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Originally Posted by stevew
The best explanation I heard for that trade was that Harper was supposedly surrounded by some very shady people and they were afraid of an embarrassing incident and/or perhaps he was a coke head. It is very hard to find too much insider type info from the pre internet era.
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Yeah, I always sorta wondered why the Clips were able to get an athletic wing guard (back then, Harper had some terrific hops and good quicks) for a guy like Ferry, but I had been confused for years by all the mad Duke love in the NCAA, so what did I know?
It's too bad Harper hurt his knee about a year in (IIRC). He was an exciting addition to a team that had Danny Manning, Charles Smith, Kenny Norman and Gary Grant. Okay, and Benoit Benjamin (cringes). With Larry Brown coaching.