<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The last time the Milwaukee Bucks had the No. 1 pick in the National Basketball Association draft, in 1994, they grabbed Glenn Robinson out of Purdue, and he wound up as the second-leading scorer in franchise history. The team's first No. 1 pick was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) in 1969, and he became one of the game's all-time greats. The only other time Milwaukee had the top overall pick, it drafted center Kent Benson out of Indiana in 1977. Thanks to the team's good fortune in the NBA draft lottery on Tuesday, the Bucks will have another chance to make a major makeover. Center Andrew Bogut of Utah, forward Marvin Williams of North Carolina and point guard Chris Paul of Wake Forest are considered the top candidates to be chosen with the first overall pick in the two-round draft on June 28. "Any time you get the No. 1 pick, you hope you get a guy who is going to propel you where you want to get to," Harris said Tuesday night. "If this guy has a chance to help our franchise like a Lew Alcindor or a Glenn Robinson, that would be a heck of a day. "I'd take that." Harris said that by the time he left the NBA studio in Secaucus, N.J., he had 20 voice mails on his phone and 10 text messages. Forward Desmond Mason left a voice message from Shanghai, China, where he was working on an international telecast of the San Antonio-Phoenix playoff game. And the Bucks general manager was able to speak with guard Michael Redd, who will be an unrestricted free agent this summer but has indicated that he will strongly consider staying with Milwaukee. "He was ecstatic that we got the No. 1 pick; he could not believe it," Harris said.</div> Source
