1973 NBA Draft

Number 1 pick Doug Collins as coach (2010)

The 1973 NBA Draft was carried out on April 24, 1973 in New York . It was the last draft with no limit on the number of rounds, so that the player selection ran until no franchise chose another player. There were 20 rounds in total.

In first position, Doug Collins was elected by the Philadelphia 76ers . Of the total of 211 selected players, 52 played at least one NBA game. Krešimir Ćosić is the only player from this draft to date to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame . However, he never played in the NBA, but opted for a career in Europe. Some players selected in the draft opted for the American Basketball Association (ABA) competitive league and therefore initially did not play in the NBA.

Draft picks

• Members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame are highlighted in color

round	Pick	Player (position)	Nat.	NBA team	previous team / college	Games (reg.)	Points	All-Star (including ABA)	Master (including ABA)
1	1	Doug Collins		Philadelphia 76ers	Illinois State University	415	7427	4th
1	2	Jim Brewer		Cleveland Cavaliers	University of Minnesota	703	4099		1
1	3	Ernie DiGregorio		Buffalo Braves	Providence College	312	2997
1	4th	Mike Green		Seattle SuperSonics	Louisiana Tech University	245	2062	(1)
1	5	Kermit Washington		Los Angeles Lakers	American University	507	4666	1
1	6th	Ed Ratleff		Houston Rockets	California State University, Long Beach	338	2813
1	7th	Ron comfort		Kansas City Kings	University of Minnesota	388	3977
1	8th	Mike Bantom		Phoenix Suns	Saint Joseph's University	706	8568
1	9	Dwight Jones		Atlanta Hawks	University of Houston	766	6230
1	10	John Brown		Atlanta Hawks	University of Missouri	486	3614
1	11	Kevin Joyce		Golden State Warriors	University of South Carolina
1	12	Kevin Kunnert		Chicago Bulls	University of Iowa	555	4602
1	13	Nick Weatherspoon		Capital bullets	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	453	4086
1	14th	Mel Davis		New York Knicks	St. John's University	190	1008
1	15th	Barry Parkhill		Portland Trail Blazers	University of Virginia
1	16	Swen Nater		Milwaukee Bucks	University of California, Los Angeles	489	5943	(2)
1	17th	Steve Downing		Boston Celtics	Indiana University Bloomington	27	64		1
1	18th	Raymond Lewis		Philadelphia 76ers	California State University, Los Angeles
2	19th	Louie Nelson		Capital bullets	University of Washington	224	2113
2	20th	Mike D'Antoni		Kansas City Kings	Marshall University	130	432
2	21st	Allan Bristow		Philadelphia 76ers	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	648	5122
2	22nd	George McGinnis		Philadelphia 76ers	Indiana University Bloomington	528	9090	6 (3)	(2)
2	23	Billy Schaeffer		Los Angeles Lakers	St. John's University				(1)
2	24	Kevin Stacom		Chicago Bulls	Providence College	347	1781		1
2	25th	Larry McNeill		Kansas City Kings	Marquette University	297	2533
2	26th	Allan Hornyak		Cleveland Cavaliers	Ohio State University
2	27	Tom Ingelsby		Atlanta Hawks	Villanova University	48	129
2	28	Patrick McFarland		New York Knicks	Saint Joseph's University
2	29	Derrek Dickey		Golden State Warriors	University of Cincinnati	321	1962		1
2	30th	Wendell Hudson		Chicago Bulls	University of Alabama
2	31	Jim Chones		Los Angeles Lakers	Marquette University	623	7664		1
2	32	Caldwell Jones		Philadelphia 76ers	Albany State University	1068	6589	(1)
2	33	Gary Melchionni		Phoenix Suns	Duke University	137	1074
2	34	John Perry		Los Angeles Lakers	University of Texas – Pan American
2	35	Phil Hankinson		Boston Celtics	University of Pennsylvania	31	122		1
2	36	Ted Manakas		Atlanta Hawks	Princeton University	5	12
2	37	Jim O'Brien		Cleveland Cavaliers	University of Maryland				(1)
2	38	Ken Charles		Buffalo Braves	Fordham University	322	2747
2	39	Martin Terry		Chicago Bulls	University of Arkansas
3	42	Joe Reaves		Phoenix Suns	Bethel College	7th	16
3	44	Bo Lamar		Detroit Pistons	University of Louisiana at Lafayette	71	502
3	45	Leonard Gray		Atlanta Hawks	California State University, Long Beach	224	2408
3	48	Tom Kozelko		Capital bullets	University of Toledo	189	407
3	49	Allie McGuire		New York Knicks	Marquette University	2	4th
3	50	Larry Kenon		Detroit Pistons	University of Memphis	503	8535	5 (3)	(1)
3	51	EC Coleman		Houston Rockets	Houston Baptist University	357	2553
4th	57	Luke Witte		Cleveland Cavaliers	Ohio State University	118	372
4th	64	Mark Sibley		Chicago Bulls	Northwestern University	28	46
4th	66	George Karl		New York Knicks	University of North Carolina	33	85
5	74	John Coughran		Cleveland Cavaliers	University of California	24	68
5	76	ML Carr		Kansas City Kings	Guilford College	604	5853		2
5	83	Dennis Bell		New York Knicks	Drake University	63	175
5	84	Krešimir Ćosić		Los Angeles Lakers	Brigham Young University
6th	88	Mike Macaluso		Buffalo Braves	Canisius College	30th	48
6th	96	John Williamson		Atlanta Hawks	New Mexico State University	288	5802		(2)
6th	98	Johnny Neumann		Chicago Bulls	University of Mississippi	83	464
7th	106	Tim Bassett		Buffalo Braves	University of Georgia	235	1390		(1)
7th	118	Nate Hawthorne		Los Angeles Lakers	Southern Illinois University	162	882
8th	128	Jim Owens		Phoenix Suns	Arizona State University	58	177
8th	129	Ben Kelso		Detroit Pistons	Central Michigan University	46	85
9	138	Harvey Catchings		Philadelphia 76ers	Hardin-Simmons University	725	2335
11	166	Rod Freeman		Philadelphia 76ers	Vanderbilt University	35	106
17th	204	Jim Garvin		Buffalo Braves	Boston University	6th	2

Web links

• Complete draft list 1973
• Draft statistics at basketball-reference.com