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Milwaukee Bucks: Glenn Robinson and the weight of great expectations

MILWAUKEE, UNITED STATES: (SCOTT OLSON/AFP/Getty Images)

From the moment Glenn Robinson arrived to the Milwaukee Bucks, he was expected to turn around the organization. It turns out it was a little more complicated than that.

Twenty-five years after the Milwaukee Bucks won the rights to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar through a coin flip, the stars had aligned for Milwaukee to take college’s top player once again in 1994.

The Bucks viewed Glenn Robinson as the clear top prize in a draft class that featured future Hall of Famers in Grant Hill and Jason Kidd after they had won that year’s draft lottery by the slimmest of margins.