I like how you ended your post with the perfect pun.
If they weren't cursed before, they certainly are this season. Charles Barkley bet $100K on the Blazers to come out of the West, during his NBA on TNT show.
I forgot about Sam Bowie's injury, so I had to look it up. During my search, Michael Jordan came up. Supposedly, the Bulls only selected Jordan because the top two big men were gone and they wee unable to trade the pick that would be Jordan, for centers Jack Sikma (Seattle) or Tree Rollins (Atlanta).