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Lew Alcindor | 1969
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Lew Alcindor - 1969
NBA Commissioner Walter Kennedy flips a coin, Phoenix calls `heads' and it turns up `tails'. Thus, Milwaukee wins the right to pick first in the NBA Draft, selecting Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) while Phoenix picked Neal Walk.
Photographed by: Neil Leifer/SI
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