Bucks Legends | Jon McGlocklin’s Journey from Dirt Courts to Scoring the Bucks First Point.

Bucks Legends | Jon McGlocklin’s Journey from Dirt Courts to Scoring the Bucks First Point.

and to shoot at John mcglaughlin from Indiana mlin shoots Swit that was mlan again making a fine move mlan in heavy traffic mil back are champions of the world and you back to the world’s champion and John mclaughin the original Buck put you there for every bounce of the ball let him get hot and he can light you up shooting your Bridgman a magnificent effort by Sydney monre Robinson step back free yes yes Robinson doggy he’s an Allstar doggy what a great night for you you get a career high 43 points slack this off Su long and we go to training camp just with moments like this right here but will have their highest scoring half right here yeah stroke my headset at least it’s not because you were angry with me than got emotional over here when Washington scores the points come from Andrew bogus happy 29th anniversary to the maun and John mlin they’ve raised over $25 million in the 29-year history of Midwest athletes against Childhood Cancer and the Cure rate has gone up from 25% that first year to nearly 80% John thank you for all your great work I learned learned as as a young boy growing up in Indiana I was a basketball player from the time I can remember and in the 50s and 60s and70s in Indiana it was a one class system and and basketball ruled and I was just a basketball player small town in Indiana like the movie hooers a little bit bigger Town than that but my story is like that hi my name is John mclaughin and I’m co-founder of the macf fund it was in my heart it’s just something that came from within God gave me uh an a physical ability but it gave me a a physical ability to commit I had it here and here and and so I would spend hours on my dirt Court in my backyard playing basketball and it’s just the truth did I get some football in there and some track and some baseball yeah but it was basketball continually and I never thought about professional it didn’t enter my mind because it there were only nine NBA teams with 10 players on a team when I came into the NBA so growing up that’s all there were and there weren’t millions of dollars and there it wasn’t on television and like it is today I just wanted to be one of the best players that ever played in the state of Indiana and go to college on a scholarship and get an education and go into the world that was my drive but I always had motivation that came from here and then I was able to give a commitment and then take action well that’s the same thing that you do in business you do as an announcer or you do with your commitment to the Mac fund I pray every day and thank God for the the friends the family and then the acquaintances uh through my life and and I look at at my life and say well I mean I wasn’t that bright I wasn’t a great student so how did I even get to Indiana and then graduate in four years uh hard work and I didn’t know what was in front of me with this route that that I believe God was taking me but I look at how difficult life could be in the NBA especially then and remember what I just said in the year I came in in 1965 there were nine teams there were 10 players on a team there were 90 Pro players in the world if you look at my draft NBA draft in 65 I was a 24th pick third round well today there’s 30 teams that’s the first round would I have been I like to think I would have John mlin from Indiana mlin H wh that baby from 182 out and let one spad out that was mclin again taking a fine move mclin he shs outside in heavy traffic that’s as close as they’ve guarded him and he makes his first field goal M GL PS up duer and [Applause] it’s in front of me and even behind me there are 25 Allstar from that draft year so to go to the Royals and make it and then be expanded to San Diego because my coach in Cincinnati went to San Diego to coach and took me in expansion when I have this opportunity doing fine and then realize this isn’t the place for me because our coach there was never happy with the guards always changing the guard why realized then well now wait he had just coached Oscar Robertson for 10 years there ain’t no Oscar Robinson’s in the seven of us so I realized I better get out of here and then Milwaukee picked me Pam and I wanted to be picked by Milwaukee the other team was Phoenix so why would you want to come to Wisconsin when you can go to Arizona that didn’t matter to me then What mattered was where I was playing we wanted to hear because of Midwest we like we’re midwesterners and uh John Ericson who had coached at the University of Wisconsin for many years that I played against he was our general manager and I felt like I knew him so I was picked by the bucks so what’s interesting is we come here drive in from San Diego and um stop go to the corner where the Milwaukee Bucks office is it’s on it’s a Dunkin Donut today it’s on the corner of Wisconsin and 8 or something Pam and I are standing on the corner she’s six months pregnant and here comes a guy across the street that I just notice and I don’t know how he’s a little guy and he’s kind of walking like like I think Jimmy Stewart used to walk the actor like walk here we go over he goes into the Bucks office with us it was Eddie ducet my buddy all these years first person I met in Milwaukee was Eddie ducet and it was my pleasure to broadcast bu War gets the rebound the deflected shot and my broadcast partner he has a great Community involvement with the Mac fund and the things that he does on the on the TV are the things that allow him to stay visible to reinforce the things that he’s doing and he’s he he he took the he took the lesson well and he has uh applied it perfectly because um he is really Mr Buck Mr community and a tremendous representative for the city and the state I was at a pre-season practice at a high school we didn’t have facilities like they have now and one of the owners Mar Fishman who he and West pavlon are responsible for bringing the Bucks here he’s there and afterwards he goes well John he says you think you have a chance to make the team and make starting five and I go well Sir Mr Fishman uh I think think uh the rest of them had better worry and see if they make the team cuz I’m making it but the point is you know there was no Open Door nobody knew you had to earn it and going through two expansion teams is like going to war it’s combat it’s hand toand combat with veterans uh middle-aged guys and young guys Walk-Ons that want to make this team so you’re you’re in hand toand combat to earn one of the 12 well I did and and went on from there that year made the All-Star team to be able to play on the allstar team and I think one of the things I remember the most about that though is in the locker room before the game getting dressed Bill Russell is on my right Gus honeycom Johnson is on my left Oscars two stalls over these great players and I’m there with them and during the game I got in the game only played six minutes which someday I’ll take up with Jean Shu I think I should have had a few more minutes than but I’m in the game I catch it I have a a look at a shot and I pass it time out I’m sitting on the bench and Bill Russell goes John what do you do best well Russ I I’m a shooter he said next time when you catch it shoot it and and I did and that was a great thrill for me to be an All-Star with those great players I’ve often wondered well how did I get from that dirt Court in that little town I’m just a I’m just a guy you know I wasn’t great I wasn’t Oscar Robertson or Larry Bird but I had these other drives and I was a good player as a pro I was average as a shooter I was way above average I was a great shooter and that’s what helped me as a pro in the early days the Boston Garden and New York the old Garden uh my first game there I’m going down the floor on a fast break and I get up here to make a pass and there’s no ball I look back and it’s laying on the floor it hit a dead spot and died well that’s how it was in those days and everything that year went well we didn’t have injuries we didn’t have problems we had multiple huge winning streaks like 12 games 15 games you know and on our ring it says 20 straight we won 20 straight games and realized that the last 10 games of the year we probably could have won 70 three or four or five but we didn’t try to coach started resting us and we lost I don’t know about half of those games but that team was a professional machine I see the camaraderie that these bucks teams have today and other teams and I think it’s wonderful and they had it we didn’t really have that we were very different we had old guys young guys guys from UCLA Kareem and lucus Allen and they were kind of more uh you know in the current ERA there were guys like me the you know the white guy from a little town in Indiana that sat in the middle of the bus Oscar who’ been around many years and was an old veteran but yet could still do it uh sitting in his room we’d go to his room and eat buckets of fried chicken and smok cigars on the road different so off the court we didn’t all hang and be buddies you walked in the gym all that was checked and it was a professional team that played together and just eight people up we could be down 10 with 2 minutes and we knew we could win and usually did so it it had a professional characteristic to it here Kim Jabar Milwaukee lead4 six pointed a play Oscar back to Jabar slams up about that Oscar comes up with it pass to Allen two point and it goes to Jabar slapped away but he gets it back and missed the shot rebounds in coach and assistant coaches of the Lakers the game is over and the final score the Milwaukee Bucks 120 the Los Angeles Lakers 104 my first encounter were Wilt I mean he lifted me off the floor cuz I had a hold of the ball and almost dunk me the moment they traded for Oscar we on the team knew we’re the team to beat this is our year [Music] [Music] I remember standing outside and there was a writer from New York that already attached to us was going to do a book we as the players were outside talking before we went to one of the practices and we were talking then about this is our year this was Baltimore April 30th 1971 the happiest guys in the world the new champs the Milwaukee Bucks these guys wanted to end it tonight and they went out and did it that’s what you had to do you got to believe in yourself and they really believe in themselves oh this is great great J finally finally got it finally got it great guy big fell hey [Music] Luke it’s taken down Z against web 24 to Z four three off the rim Z gets it back two one he hits it it’s over it’s over the Milwaukee bux are champions of the world anduk back to the world champion one of the greatest Seasons any NBA team has ever had when you spend that many years in the NBA in other cities on airplanes in locker rooms with different players uh being on a championship team with two of the 10 best players that I’ve ever played ever I mean those were full of stories but all of those things work together in my life in terms of the channel you follow it starts with motivation then commitment then action I think in the NBA then and now and then was more difficult because of travel we didn’t have Charters we didn’t have beautiful hotels we didn’t have practice facilities you had to do a lot on your own and and then as an announcer and I traveled uh 33 years before we ever went Charter and we were in the Western Conference a lot trying to fly to the West out of Milwaukee um it was a challenge we played inside out then today they play outside maybe in mostly not in at all it’s how it’s changed would I love that as a three-point I could have been a three-point oh I would have loved today’s game more than that game because our first thing was Pastor Karem Pastor Kareem today it’d be shoot John shoot when chapters end for someone anyone not just me or a pro-athlete but as a pro-athlete it can be very difficult at 32 years old it’s gone um the Bucks wanted me to retire I wanted to play one more year but when you’re making $80,000 not $800 million you’re like dude I really want to move my family for one year and the buck said we want you in the front office we want you we want you want and so it worked and I think that so far John they’ve played even better game than we saw them in game two which was a big improvement over game one even though the Bucks have a three-point lead at halftime Atlanta’s hanging right in there and they’re very aggressive going to the basket tonight Eddie I don’t know that Atlanta has made that many changes in regard to what they’ve done in game one and two and we would like you to work radio and TV with Eddie ducet and that’s what I wanted to do so I put on a shirt and tie and started going to work at 32 years years old but uh at that same time Eddie and Karen ducet who are very close friends of ours their first son who was 2 and a half years old Brett was diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia and we then started learning about Childhood Cancer uh in particular acute lymphatic leukemia in learning about that the bucks came to me and said well on your retirement night which will be December 10th 1976 we decided we wanted to start this charity on that night we went to the Bucks ownership and they said whatever you want here’s our lawyers here’s our PR firm what else what would like a game which was a preseason game that we’ve had all 47 years under all the ownerships hello everybody Welcome to the 40th annual Mac fun game given to us by the Milwaukee Bucks thanks for being here everybody I want to thank Jim fishgold group in the beginning Senator herb Cole for 25 years of support the current owners of Milwaukee Bucks I want to thank them for continuing this tradition of the annual macf fund game that I’m sure many of you have been to over the years and by the way we have now given that’s given in the fight against Childhood Cancer $57 million we have now given given $65 million in the fight against Childhood Cancer to help raise the life for our children thanks to the people of Wisconsin this is our home I mean we’re we get to be hooers and cheese heads it’s kind of hard to wear them both I don’t know what a hooer thing would be but we know what a cheese head is how did I get from that dirt Court to an NBA championship to an NBA old star to all of those things that allowed us to do the Mac fund to the announcing for 43 years there is no doubt in my mind because I’m I’m a a religious man that’s from God I believe God took me gave me all those things to get to hear for the macf fund I believe that the Mac fund was the end result and so my commitment to that is till the Lord calls me home I was at Children’s one day with my wife because our one of our granddaughters had surgery we went into the Chapel to pray we came out you sign a book if you want and you can write a note if you want so we sign it and right above us was a name and a note that note said God please take my child do you realize the depth of Despair that is they’ve been through so much difficulty we don’t know that was even can we don’t know what it was that’s one of those failures that motivated me and there’s many more stories like that in our world that get people behind it and get them moving do you want to play the next level no you can play I’m going just watch we going to we can take turns no it’s okay I want to see you build I really want to take turns it’s a family thing when a child has cancer it affects everybody and they’re not all good stories we’re trying to make them good stories because the money we’re raising is getting us closer to 100% but beating cancer is really a difficult thing because it’s it’s got so many different factions and derivatives to it they can solved this part of it but haven’t gotten that part of it that first year we raised $35,000 and thanks to the continued exposure through the Bucks radio and TV all the years following the beginning as well as the rest of the community that got behind this happy 29th anniversary to the maun and John mland they’ve raised over $25 million in the 29-year history of Midwest athletes against Childhood Cancer and the Cure rate has gone up from 25% that first year to nearly 80% John thank you for all your great work uh We’ve now given uh over $85 million we’re approaching 90 and I’m anxious for that 100 million to say this is what we’ve given to research for Childhood Cancer blood disorders and sickle cell we support all those and the research without research there’s no hope with research There’s Hope and cancer parents and families need hope and that’s what they tell us the most when they come to us and we come to them what’s your name my name is yanis what’s your name that’s the man right there man dunking yelling that’s him so we’re continuing this fight I think many people in the beginning thought it might last a year or two well it’s 47 years first time I met our main two owners it was kind of like yeah how you doing you know they didn’t know who me or anything and then they found out I scored the bucks first basket which I’m really proud of and I didn’t know it till about 15 years ago I was just trying to get a job I didn’t you know that helped give more identity to the Mac fund and I care about them committing to us because the Bucks and the macun are a relationship it it’s a it’s a Brotherhood so the the macf Fun’s significant to the history of of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin the honesty of it the reliability of it the truth of it the fact that the money is getting where it needs to go sure we have to pay our staff they deserve it and that’s been one of the blessings of the Mac fun I can’t take credit for it but uh it’s evolved uh the attitude and the the truth and the honesty of that that motivates people that we interact with that’s why some of these events have been with us for almost all the 47 years it’s about this when it comes to all of these things we’re trying to do in terms of raising money I’ve always been one as I look back on my life at my age you get to do that it was the failures that motivated me it was the failures that I got up in each of those different areas of my life and said okay I’m going forward and I’m going to be better I mean when I first came to the Bucks they had like I think six or seven employees it so everything’s changed but even to this date every day I go out to have lunch or whatever I do it I’m stopped by one to five people that yell at me Johnny Mack this or that or come up want to talk the Loyalty that I have experienced of the Wisconsin people to me as a buck and as a buck player and then many people come up and the first thing they say to me is Mac fun I can’t even begin to overemphasize how important they’ve been and how loyal they still are that’s why there’s a Mac fund today you’ve been loyal to me but you’ve been loyal to the Mac fund the Mac fund is yours it’s your story you’re are helping us save children’s lives and letting families breathe that their children are living and they’re beating this disease but we need you to continue because the beat goes on it

In this exclusive feature, Jon McGlocklin sits down to tell his story through life.

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