1974 NBA draft

The 1974 NBA Draft was held in New York on May 28, 1974 . There were ten rounds in total.

In first position, Bill Walton was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers . In addition to Bill Walton, Jamaal Wilkes and George Gervin have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to this day . Of the total of 178 selected players, 62 played at least one NBA game.

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	master
1	1	Bill Walton		Portland Trail Blazers	UCLA	468	6215	2	2
1	2	Marvin Barnes		Philadelphia 76ers	Providence College	171	1569
1	3	Tom Burleson		Seattle SuperSonics	North Carolina State University	446	4190
1	4th	John Shumate		Phoenix Suns	University of Notre Dame	318	3920
1	5	Bobby Jones		Houston Rockets	University of North Carolina	774	8911	5	1
1	6th	Scott Wedman		Kansas City Kings	University of Colorado	906	11916	2	2
1	7th	Tom Henderson		Atlanta Hawks	University of Hawaii	650	6088		1
1	8th	Campy Russell		Cleveland Cavaliers	University of Michigan	566	8953	1
1	9	Tom McMillen		Buffalo Braves	University of Maryland	729	5914
1	10	Mike Sojourner		Atlanta Hawks	University of Utah	191	1658
1	11	Jamaal Wilkes		Golden State Warriors	UCLA	828	14644	3	3
1	12	Brian Winters		Los Angeles Lakers	University of South Carolina	650	10537	2
1	13	Len Elmore		Washington Bullets	University of Maryland	505	2327
1	14th	Maurice Lucas		Chicago Bulls	Marquette University	855	12339	5	1
1	15th	Al Eberhard		Detroit Pistons	University of Missouri	220	1490
1	16	Cliff Pondexter		Chicago Bulls	California State University, Long Beach	197	778
1	17th	Glenn McDonald		Boston Celtics	California State University, Long Beach	146	609		1
1	18th	Gary Brokaw		Milwaukee Bucks	University of Notre Dame	241	1928
2	19th	Don Smith		Philadelphia 76ers	University of Dayton	54	283
2	20th	Jan van Breda Kolff		Portland Trail Blazers	Vanderbilt University	434	2596
2	21st	Billy Knight		Los Angeles Lakers	University of Pittsburgh	671	10561	2
2	22nd	Truck Robinson		Washington Bullets	Tennessee State University	772	11988	2
2	23	Gus Bailey		Houston Rockets	University of Texas at El Paso	147	389
2	24	Len Kosmalski		Kansas City Kings	University of Tennessee	76	110
2	25th	John Drew		Atlanta Hawks	Gardner-Webb University	739	15291	2
2	26th	Leonard Gray		Seattle SuperSonics	California State University, Long Beach	224	2408
2	27	Leon Benbow		Chicago Bulls	Jacksonville University	115	628
2	28	Aaron James		New Orleans Jazz	Grambling State University	356	3829
2	29	Phil Smith		Golden State Warriors	University of San Francisco	659	9924	2	1
2	30th	Dennis DuVal		Washington Bullets	Syracuse University	50	96
2	31	Fred Saunders		Phoenix Suns	Syracuse University	210	1107
2	32	Jesse Dark		New York Knicks	Virginia Commonwealth University	47	170
2	33	Eric Money		Detroit Pistons	University of Arizona	426	5211
2	34	Phil Lumpkin		Portland Trail Blazers	Miami University	82	272
2	35	Kevin Stacom		Boston Celtics	Providence College	347	1781		1
2	36	Ruby Collins		Portland Trail Blazers	University of Maryland Eastern Shore	0
3	37	Connie Norman		Philadelphia 76ers	University of Arizona	99	595
3	38	Foots Walker		Cleveland Cavaliers	State University of West Georgia	658	4199
3	39	Kevin Restani		Cleveland Cavaliers	University of San Francisco	550	3386
3	40	George Gervin		Phoenix Suns	Eastern Michigan University	791	20708	12
3	42	Harvey Catchings		Philadelphia 76ers	Hardin-Simmons University	725	2335
3	43	Darrell Elston		Atlanta Hawks	University of North Carolina	5	5
3	44	Valley Skinner		Seattle SuperSonics	University of Maryland Eastern Shore	145	660
3	45	Kim Hughes		Buffalo Braves	University of Wisconsin	341	932		1
3	47	Frank Kendrick		Golden State Warriors	Purdue University	24	80
3	49	Earl Williams		Phoenix Suns	Winston-Salem State University	146	664
3	52	Bobby Wilson		Chicago Bulls	Wichita State University	143	792
4th	56	Mickey Johnson		Portland Trail Blazers	Aurora University	904	12748
4th	63	Bernie Harris		Buffalo Braves	Virginia Commonwealth University	11	5
4th	66	Stan Washington		Washington Bullets	University of San Diego	1	0
5	77	Owen Wells		Houston Rockets	University of Detroit Mercy	33	99
5	80	Dean Tolson		Seattle SuperSonics	University of Arkansas	80	402
5	82	Ed Searcy		New Orleans Jazz	St. John's University	4th	6th
5	86	Greg Jackson		New York Knicks	Guilford College	49	182
5	89	Ben Clyde		Boston Celtics	Florida State University	25th	69
6th	92	Dan Anderson		Portland Trail Blazers	University of Southern California	95	347
6th	98	Wardell Jackson		Seattle SuperSonics	Ohio State University	56	243
7th	115	Greg Lee		Atlanta Hawks	UCLA	5	6th
9	145	Perry Warbington		Philadelphia 76ers	Georgia Southern University	5	10
9	154	Ken Boyd		New Orleans Jazz	Boston University	6th	19th
9	160	Al Skinner		Boston Celtics	University of Massachusetts Amherst	203	1884		1
10	169	Rod Derline		Seattle SuperSonics	Seattle University	107	518
10	175	Bill Ligon		Detroit Pistons	Vanderbilt University	38	126

Web links

• Complete draft list 1974
• Draft statistics at basketball-reference.com