
The Draft is not an exact science. Some franchises pull off magic shots with little-expected players – like Nikola Jokic or Tony Parker – while others miss big time
But chance does not only take the form of a more or less well-informed choice. Luck is at the very heart of the allocation of choices. With, at one time, its most powerful form: the coin toss.
A one in two chance of changing the destiny of a franchise.
This is what happened in 1969. That year, two teams came together around a play for one of the greatest players in history: Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Or rather Lew Alcindor, his birth name before he converted to Islam.
An episode written by Jonathan Demay.
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The episode – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the story on a coin toss
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