Sund wasn’t the only GM who called Thorn about No. 3. The 76ers, owners of the fifth pick, were signaling all over to see if they could move up. Then-general manager Pat Williams says they offered Portland No. 5 and a player for No. 2. That was a no-go. He can’t recall what he proposed to the Bulls, but it wasn’t enough. “People are shocked. ‘We didn’t know (Jordan) was gonna be that good and so forth.’ Well, we certainly knew he was gonna be good,” Williams told The Athletic. “Greatest player of all time? Nobody saw that coming. But everybody knew. And if you were in that Carolina pipeline, which we were because of Billy, you had all the inside skinny on what was going on in Chapel Hill.”