Walt Frazier wasn’t the only draft pick in 1967 who would become an integral part of the Knicks’s success well into the 1970s. In the second round the team selected a onetime aspiring minister from rural Montana named Phil Jackson. The 1967 draft also yielded Earl Monroe, the Baltimore Bullets’ first-round pick, who would join Frazier in the Knicks’ backcourt following a historic trade in 1971.
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