UCLA center Lew Alcindor, now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was the prize of that college draft class. Phoenix was 16-66 in the West and Milwaukee was 27-55 in the East and the league had to flip a coin to ...

The Bucks selected Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) with the 1st pick (won with a coin toss) in the NBA Draft. They signed him to a 5-year, $1,250,000 deal. ROOKIE SEASON ...