NBA Draft 1957

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Contents 1 First Round 2 Second Round 3 Third Round 4 Fourth Round 5 Fifth Round 6 Sixth Round 7 Seventh Round 8 Eighth Round 9 Ninth Round 10 Tenth Round 11 Eleventh Round 12 Twelfth Round 13 Thirteenth Round 14 Fourteenth Round

First Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Rod Hundley	West Virginia	Cincinnati Royals
2	Charles Tyra	Louisville	Detroit Pistons
3	Jim Krebs	Southern Methodist	Minneapolis Lakers
4	Win Wilfong	Memphis State	St. Louis Hawks
5	Brendan McCann	St. Bonaventure	New York Knicks
6	Len Rosenbluth	North Carolina	Philadelphia Warriors
7	George Bon Salle	Illinois	Syracuse Nationals
8	Sam Jones	NC Central Eagles	Boston Celtics

Second Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Dick Duckett	St. John’s	Cincinnati Royals
2	Bob McCoy	Grambling	Detroit Pistons
3	Harvey Schmidt	Illinois	Minneapolis Lakers
4	Jim Palmer	Dayton	St. Louis Hawks
5	Larry Friend	California	New York Knicks
6	Jack Sullivan	Mount St. Mary’s	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Jim Morgan	Louisville	Syracuse Nationals
8	Dick O'Neal	Texas Christian	Boston Celtics

Third Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Jerry Paulson	Manhattan	Cincinnati Royals
2	Bill Ebben	Detroit	Detroit Pistons
3	Jim Spivey	Southeastern Oklahoma	Minneapolis Lakers
4	John Smyth	Notre Dame	St. Louis Hawks
5	Gary Clark	Syracuse	New York Knicks
6	Angelo Lombardo	Manhattan	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Vince Cohen	Syracuse	Syracuse Nationals
8	Chuck Schramm	Western Illinois	Boston Celtics

Fourth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Jed Dormeyer	Minnesota	Cincinnati Royals
2	Kurt Englebert	St. Joseph’s (Pa.)	Detroit Pistons
3	George Brown	Wayne State	Minneapolis Lakers
4	Hank Nowak	Canisius	St. Louis Hawks
5	Rayford Wells	Lenoir Rhyne	New York Knicks
6	Ray Radziszewski	St. Joseph’s (Pa.)	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Jerry Mallett	Baylor	Syracuse Nationals
8	Jim Ashmore	Mississippi State	Boston Celtics

Fifth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Stewart Murray	Lafayette	Cincinnati Royals
2	Ron Kramer	Michigan	Detroit Pistons
3	Gary Thompson	Iowa State	Minneapolis Lakers
4	Al Rochelle	Vanderbilt	St. Louis Hawks
5	Lee Marshall	Washington & Lee	New York Knicks
6	Jim Radcliffe	Lafayette	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Frank Nimmo	Cincinnati	Syracuse Nationals
8	Grady Wallace	South Carolina	Boston Celtics

Sixth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	John Maglio	North Carolina State	Cincinnati Royals
2	Walt Acamushko	St. Francis (N.Y.)	Detroit Pistons
3	Phil Murrell	Drake	Minneapolis Lakers
4	Raymond Downs	Texas	St. Louis Hawks
5	Jim Humphreys	St. Michael’s (Vt.)	New York Knicks
6	Alonzo Lewis	La Salle	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Lyndon Lee	Oklahoma City	Syracuse Nationals
8	Maurice King	Kansas	Boston Celtics

Seventh Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Chet Forte	Columbia	Cincinnati Royals
2	Carl Boldt	San Francisco	Detroit Pistons
3	George Ferguson	Michigan	Minneapolis Lakers
4	Mason Pope	Kentucky Wesleyan	St. Louis Hawks
5	Max Jameson	Kentucky State	Philadelphia Warriors
6	Dick Gaines	Seton Hall	Syracuse Nationals
7	Dick Brott	Denver	Boston Celtics

Eighth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bob Daniels	Western Kentucky	Cincinnati Royals
2	Doug Bolstorff	Minnesota	Detroit Pistons
3	Jon Haaven	North Dakota	Minneapolis Lakers
4	Bill Darragh	Louisville	St. Louis Hawks
5	Woody Sauldsberry	Texas Southern	Philadelphia Warriors
6	Cebe Prince	Marshall	Syracuse Nationals
7	Bill Von Weyhe	Rhode Island	Boston Celtics

Ninth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Dick Heise	DePaul	Cincinnati Royals
2	Bob Lazor	Pittsburgh	Detroit Pistons
3	Jim Sutton	North Dakota State	Minneapolis Lakers
4	Calvin Grosscup	Tulane	St. Louis Hawks
5	Steve Hamilton	Morehead State	Philadelphia Warriors
6	Jim Brown	Syracuse	Syracuse Nationals
7	Joe Gibbon	Mississippi	Boston Celtics

Tenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Mel Wright	Oklahoma A&M	Cincinnati Royals
2	Gordon Fosness	Dakota Wesleyan	Minneapolis Lakers
3	Bobby Mills	Southern Methodist	St. Louis Hawks
4	Jerry Calvert	Kentucky	Philadelphia Warriors
5	Jack Nichols	Colgate	Syracuse Nationals
6	Jack Butcher	Memphis State	Boston Celtics

Eleventh Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Cliff Hafer	North Carolina State	Cincinnati Royals
2	Gerald Dreier	Macalaster	St. Louis Hawks
3	Dick Neal	Indiana	Boston Celtics

Twelfth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Jim Boothe	Xavier (Ohio)	Cincinnati Royals
2	Bob Seitz	North Carolina State	St. Louis Hawks
3	Jim Weeks	New York Tech	Syracuse Nationals

Thirteenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Ed Romanoff	None	St. Louis Hawks

Fourteenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Lavelle Langston	Northwestern	St. Louis Hawks