1975 NBA Draft

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The 1975 NBA Draft was carried out on May 29, 1975 in New York . There were ten rounds in total.

In first position David Thompson was elected by the Atlanta Hawks , who to date has been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as the only player in the draft . Of the total of 174 selected players, 53 played at least one NBA game.

Draft picks

round Pick Player (position) Nat. NBA team previous team / college Games (reg.) Points All star master
1 1 David Thompson United StatesUnited States Atlanta Hawks (from New Orleans Jazz ) North Carolina State University 509 11264 5
1 2 Dave Meyers United StatesUnited States Los Angeles Lakers UCLA 281 3149
1 3 Marvin Webster United StatesUnited States Atlanta Hawks Morgan State University 579 4137
1 4th Alvan Adams United StatesUnited States Phoenix Suns University of Oklahoma 988 13910 1
1 5 Darryl Dawkins United StatesUnited States Philadelphia 76ers 726 8733
1 6th Lionel Hollins United StatesUnited States Portland Trail Blazers Arizona State University 673 7809 1 1
1 7th Rich Kelley United StatesUnited States New Orleans Jazz (from Milwaukee Bucks ) Stanford University 814 6199
1 8th Junior Bridgeman United StatesUnited States Los Angeles Lakers (by Cleveland Cavaliers ) University of Louisville 849 11517
1 9 Gene Short United StatesUnited States New York Knicks Jackson State University 34 84
1 10 Bill Robinzine United StatesUnited States Kansas City Kings DePaul University 529 5541
1 11 Joe Meriweather United StatesUnited States Houston Rockets Southern Illinois University 670 5439
1 12 Frank Oleynick United StatesUnited States Seattle SuperSonics (from Detroit Pistons via New York Knicks , New Orleans Jazz ) Seattle University 102 508
1 13 Bob Bigelow United StatesUnited States Kansas City Kings University of Pennsylvania 94 234
1 14th Joe Bryant United StatesUnited States Golden State Warriors (by Chicago Bulls ) La Salle University 606 5252
1 15th John Lambert United StatesUnited States Cleveland Cavaliers (from Golden State Warriors ) University of Southern California 446 1688
1 16 Ricky Sobers United StatesUnited States Phoenix Suns (by Buffalo Braves ) University of Nevada, Las Vegas 821 10902
1 17th Tom Boswell United StatesUnited States Boston Celtics University of South Carolina 366 2821 1
1 18th Kevin Grevey United StatesUnited States Washington Bullets University of Kentucky 672 7364 1
2 19th Bill Willoughby United StatesUnited States Atlanta Hawks (from New Orleans Jazz ) 488 2930
2 20th Gus Williams United StatesUnited States Golden State Warriors (from Los Angeles Lakers ) University of Southern California 825 14093 2 1
2 21st Bruce Seals United StatesUnited States Seattle SuperSonics (by Atlanta Hawks ) Xavier University of Louisiana 235 2422
2 22nd Clyde Mayes United StatesUnited States Milwaukee Bucks (from Phoenix Suns via New Orleans Jazz ) Furman University 74 297
2 23 World B. Free United StatesUnited States Philadelphia 76ers Guilford College 886 17955 1
2 24 Cornelius Cash United StatesUnited States Milwaukee Bucks Bowling Green State University 6th 21st
2 25th Bob Gross United StatesUnited States Portland Trail Blazers California State University, Long Beach 513 4567
2 26th Ticky burden United StatesUnited States New York Knicks University of Utah 63 349
2 27 Walter Luckett United StatesUnited States Detroit Pistons Ohio University 0
2 28 Dan Roundfield United StatesUnited States Cleveland Cavaliers Central Michigan University 746 11318 3
2 29 Jim Blanks United StatesUnited States Houston Rockets Gardner-Webb University 0
2 30th Steve Green United StatesUnited States Chicago Bulls (by Seattle SuperSonics ) Indiana University 153 705
2 31 Glenn Hansen United StatesUnited States Kansas City Kings Louisiana State University 112 588
2 32 John Laskowski United StatesUnited States Chicago Bulls Indiana University 118 832
2 33 Mel Utley United StatesUnited States Cleveland Cavaliers (from Golden State Warriors ) St. John's University 0
2 34 Larry Fogle United StatesUnited States New York Knicks (from Buffalo Braves via Chicago Bulls ) Canisius College 2 2
2 35 Allen Murphy United StatesUnited States Phoenix Suns (by Washington Bullets ) University of Louisville 2 5
2 36 Jimmy Conner United StatesUnited States Phoenix Suns (from Boston Celtics ) University of Kentucky 0
3 37 Rudy Hackett United StatesUnited States New Orleans Jazz Syracuse University 6th 14th
3 38 Jim McElroy United StatesUnited States New Orleans Jazz (by Los Angeles Lakers ) Central Michigan University 418 4120
3 47 Rudy White United StatesUnited States Houston Rockets Arizona State University 124 384
3 48 Tom Kropp United StatesUnited States Washington Bullets (by Seattle SuperSonics ) University of Nebraska at Kearney 78 193
3 50 Gus Gerard United StatesUnited States Portland Trail Blazers (by Chicago Bulls ) University of Virginia 280 1607
3 51 Robert Hawkins United StatesUnited States Golden State Warriors Illinois State University 103 1313
3 53 Jerome Anderson United StatesUnited States Boston Celtics West Virginia University 49 127 1
3 54 Bayard Forrest United StatesUnited States Phoenix Suns (from Atlanta Hawks via Milwaukee Bucks ) Grand Canyon University 139 569
4th 56 CJ Kupec United StatesUnited States Los Angeles Lakers University of Michigan 147 606
4th 57 Monte Towe United StatesUnited States Atlanta Hawks North Carolina State University 51 130
4th 61 Phil Hicks United StatesUnited States Portland Trail Blazers Tulane University 57 132
4th 62 Eric Fernsten United StatesUnited States Cleveland Cavaliers University of San Francisco 218 517 1
4th 64 Lindsay Hairston United StatesUnited States Detroit Pistons Michigan State University 47 273
5 75 Wilbur Holland United StatesUnited States Atlanta Hawks University of New Orleans 276 3760
5 76 Joe Pace United StatesUnited States Phoenix Suns Coppin State University 79 255 1
6th 92 Don Ford United StatesUnited States Los Angeles Lakers University of California, Santa Barbara 474 3016
6th 99 Henry Ward United StatesUnited States Cleveland Cavaliers Jackson State University 27 83
7th 113 Mike Flynn United StatesUnited States Philadelphia 76ers University of Kentucky 144 896
8th 136 Andre McCarter United StatesUnited States Cleveland Cavaliers UCLA 103 392
8th 139 Jim Bostic United StatesUnited States Kansas City Kings New Mexico State University 4th 26th
9 151 Terry Thomas United StatesUnited States Detroit Pistons University of Detroit Mercy 28 77
10 161 Alexander Below Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union New Orleans Jazz Spartak Leningrad 0

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