In the first 26 years of the NBA Draft – one-third of the event’s history – only four players from Alabama high schools and colleges were selected in the first round.
Kentucky State’s Travis Grant holds the Lapchick Trophy, along with NBA and ABA basketballs, at the trophy presentation on April 19, 1972, in New York. The Lapchick Trophy was presented annually to college basketball’s best senior player.The NBA will hold its 78th draft on Wednesday and Thursday. Thirty first-round picks will be made starting at 7 p.m. CDT Wednesday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
That year, Bennie Swain from Westside High School in Talladega was selected by the Boston Celtics with the eighth choice, which was the final pick in the first round that season. And that was it – four first-round selections -- for the first one-third of the NBA Draft’s history. If the draft is divided into 26-year thirds, then the first period were Alabama’s lean years.
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