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Michael Jordan had his pick. Dean Smith. Phil Jackson. Maybe even his good friend Charles Barkley. Each would have been an understandable choice to present Jordan during his induction Friday into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Jordan passed on all of them. Instead, he chose someone who had never coached him or played with or against him. He chose David Thompson, right, the former Nuggets great who starred at North Carolina . . . State. “I’ve been smiling ever since,” Thompson said. “I’ve been telling people and they’ve been congratulating me like I was getting in. I’m already in.”
