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Lady Luck! Washington Wizards get top pick in NBA Draft Lottery, chance for John Wall of Kentucky

May 19, 2010

Lady Luck visited the Washington Wizards Tuesday night. She was Irene Pollin, the widow of former Wizards owner Abe Pollin.

After years of frustration in the NBA draft lottery, the Washington Wizards struck gold and won the top pick.

Irene Pollin wore Abe Pollin’s 1978 Washington Bullets NBA championship ring for good luck to the lottery selection show in Secaucus, New Jersey.

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