Most conversations on highly-touted basketball flops begin with SamBowie, who was famously taken No. 2 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in 1984--one spot ahead of Michael Jordan.
There he worked on projects with Michael Jackson, Dave Brubeck, The Cure, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Mel Torme, Sam Shepard, David Byrne, Norman Mailer, Apple Computer (Knowledge Navigator, Newton) and many others.