Milwaukee Bucks Tickets

Tails, the Milwaukee Bucks win. The fate of Milwaukee's pro basketball team literally turned on a coin flip in 1969.
Phoenix owner Dick Bloch called heads, and the half-dollar landed on tails. The Milwaukee Bucks Tickets won the right to draft Lew Alcindor after their first season in the NBA and, well, the rest is history. The towering center that later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar went on to become the No. 1 scorer in NBA history. He and Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson helped Milwaukee Bucks Tickets become the fastest team in major professional sports history to win a league championship, doing it in just its third year of existence. The Milwaukee Bucks' tickets success did not stop there. Amazingly, the club made the playoffs in all but four of its first 23 seasons through the early 1990s, and it earned a trip to the conference finals as recently as 2000-01 and turned what some called a rebuilding season into another playoff trip in 2003-04.

1968-69 After the Milwaukee Bucks Tickets inaugural season, they win a coin toss against Phoenix for the right to draft first in 1969. They select center Lew Alcindor. 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks Tickets trades for veteran guard Oscar Robertson. The Milwaukee Bucks win 66 games in the regular season and lose just twice in the playoffs en route to the championship. 1972-73 The Milwaukee Bucks Tickets become the first team to win 60-plus games three years in a row. 1975-76 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is dealt to the Lakers. In six seasons in Milwaukee Bucks Tickets, the center formerly known as Lew has won three MVP awards.

1976-77 Don Nelson replaces Larry Costello as coach and loads up in the next two drafts with Quinn Buckner, Alex English, Marques Johnson, Kent Benson and Ernie Grunfeld. 1979-80 Center Bob Lanier arrives from Detroit. The Milwaukee Bucks win 60 games in 1980-81, Lanier's first full season in Milwaukee Bucks Tickets. 1982 On March 6, the Bucks and Spurs set a single-game scoring record in a 171-166, triple-OT win for San Antonio. 1986-87 Nelson takes a job with Golden State after the season. His Milwaukee Bucks won seven straight division titles but tasted much playoff disappointment. 1990-91 Coached by Del Harris and led by All-Stars Alvin Robertson and Paul Pierce, the Milwaukee Bucks record their 12th straight winning season. 1998-99 A string of seven straight playoff-less seasons ends under new coach George Karl. 2000-01 The Milwaukee Bucks win their first division crown since 1986 and fall one game short of the NBA Finals, losing the Eastern crown to the 76ers. 2003-04 The revamped Milwaukee Bucks surprise many by winning half their games and holding down the East's No. 4 playoff seed until the final day of the regular season.