Alvin Attles Works Miracles, 1974

[In 2008, Philadelphia journalist Rich Westcott published an excellent book on Eddie Gottlieb, one of the NBA’s founding fathers who later famously drafted the NBA schedule out of his hat. The book, titled The Mogul, includes this wonderful passage about Al Attles:

In 1960, Gottlieb drafted guard Al Attles out of North Carolina AT & T in the fifth round.…