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Tip-Off Timer: How '69 Coin Flip Cursed The Phoenix Suns

By Tim PovtakAug 19th 2009 – 9:05AM

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Wednesday, there are 69 days remaining.It's been 40 years since Phoenix Suns executive Jerry Colangelo last called "heads" in a coin flip. And it still haunts the franchise today.When that Kennedy half-dollar landed on "tails" in the NBA...

Tip-Off Timer: '74 Bucks Last Edition to Reach NBA Finals

By Tim PovtakAug 14th 2009 – 9:00AM

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Friday, there are 74 days remaining.The Milwaukee Bucks were once the envy of – and the beacon for -- every expansion team in any professional sport, winning a championship in just the third year of existence. They returned to the NBA...

Lew Alcindor News From the Web

  • 05/08/12 Milwaukee's Playoff Pioneers Source: NBA - Milwaukee Bucks Anyone who has visited the Bradley Center and checked out the rafters has no doubt seen the Milwaukee Bucks' 1971 National Basketball Association championship banner.

Background on Lew Alcindor

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., April 16, 1947) is a retired American professional basketball player.

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