🏀On May 12, 1985 New York won the first-ever NBA Draft Lottery, enabling the Knicks to select Georgetown center Patrick Ewing with the first pick in the 1985 NBA Draft. Some have speculated that NBA Commissioner David Stern fixed the first overall pick to help his hometown team, the struggling New York Knicks. There is speculation that the envelope containing the Knicks logo was refrigerated beforehand, enabling Stern to recognize and select it. According to another theory, some claim that when