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Portland Trail Blazers: Arvydas Sabonis went in Hall of Fame 10 years ago

In the 1986 Draft, the Portland Tail Blazers owned two picks in the Draft that year.

The 86 Draft featured players like, North Carolina center Brad Daugherty who went number one overall to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Auburn forward Chuck Person fourth to the Indiana Pacers and Virginia Tech shooting guard Dell Curry, yes that Dell Curry, 15th to the Utah Jazz.

The Blazers picks were 14, which was used on St. John’s power forward Walter Berry, who would only appear in seven games for them, and a center out of Lithuania named Arvydas Sabonis, at 24, the last pick of the first round that year.