NBA Draft 1963

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Contents 1 Territorial Draft 2 Territorial Choice 3 First Round 4 Second Round 5 Third Round 6 Fourth Round 7 Fifth Round 8 Sixth Round 9 Seventh Round 10 Eighth Round 11 Ninth Round 12 Tenth Round 13 Eleventh Round 14 Twelfth Round 15 Thirteenth Round 16 Fourteenth Round 17 Fifteenth Round

Territorial Draft

To enable teams to take advantage of the regional popularity of college stars, they were given the option of forfeiting their first-round pick and instead selecting, before the start of the draft, a player from the franchise’s immediate geographical area. These “Territorial Picks” as they were known, are listed at the start of each year’s draft.

Territorial Choice

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Tom Thacker	Cincinnati	Cincinnati Royals

First Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Art Heyman	Duke	New York Knicks
2	Rod Thorn	West Virginia	Baltimore Bullets
3	Nate Thurmond	Bowling Green	San Francisco Warriors
4	Ed Miles	Seattle	Detroit Pistons
5	Gerry Ward	Boston College	St. Louis Hawks
6	Tom Hoover	Villanova	Syracuse Nationals
7	Roger Strickland	Jacksonville	Los Angeles Lakers
8	Bill Green	Colorado State	Boston Celtics

Second Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Jerry Harkness	Loyola (Ill.)	New York Knicks
2	Gus Johnson	Idaho	Baltimore Bullets
3	Gary Hill	Oklahoma City	San Francisco Warriors
4	Jerry Smith	Furman	Detroit Pistons
5	Jim King	Tulsa	Los Angeles Lakers
6	Leland Mitchell	Mississippi State	St. Louis Hawks
7	Hershell West	Grambling	Syracuse Nationals
8	Mel Gibson	Western Carolina	Los Angeles Lakers
9	Ken Saylors	Arkansas Tech	St. Louis Hawks

Third Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bill O'Connor	Canisius	New York Knicks
2	Tom Bolyard	Indiana	Baltimore Bullets
3	Steve Gray	St. Mary’s (Cal.)	San Francisco Warriors
4	Mike McCoy	Miami (Fla.)	Detroit Pistons
5	Jimmy Rayl	Indiana	Cincinnati Royals
6	Bill Burwell	Illinois	St. Louis Hawks
7	Jerry Greenspan	Maryland	Syracuse Nationals
8	Lyle Harger	Houston	Los Angeles Lakers
9	Chuck Kriston	Valparaiso	Boston Celtics

Fourth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Nate Cloud	Delaware	New York Knicks
2	Nolen Ellison	Kansas	Baltimore Bullets
3	Dave Downey	Illinois	San Francisco Warriors
4	Dave Erickson	Marquette	Detroit Pistons
5	Ken Charlton	Colorado	Cincinnati Royals
6	Waite Bellamy	Florida A&M	St. Louis Hawks
7	Ray Flynn	Providence	Syracuse Nationals
8	Layton Johns	Auburn	Los Angeles Lakers
9	Connie McGuire	SE Oklahoma	Boston Celtics

Fifth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Joe McDermott	Belmont Abbey	New York Knicks
2	Ron Glaser	Marquette	Baltimore Bullets
3	Don Turner	SW Kansas	San Francisco Warriors
4	Bill Small	Illinois	Detroit Pistons
5	Mac Herndon	Bradley	Cincinnati Royals
6	Tony Yates	Cincinnati	St. Louis Hawks
7	Tony Cerkvenik	Arizona State	Syracuse Nationals
8	Larry Jones	Toledo	Los Angeles Lakers
9	W.D. Stroud	Mississippi State	Boston Celtics

Sixth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Jim Kerwin	Tulane	New York Knicks
2	Ken Siebel	Wisconsin	Baltimore Bullets
3	Gene Shields	Santa Clara	San Francisco Warriors
4	Reggie Harding	None	Detroit Pistons
5	Jim McCormack	West Virginia	Cincinnati Royals
6	Al Santio	Maryland State	St. Louis Hawks
7	Vince Brewer	Iowa State	Syracuse Nationals
8	Warren Salade	Westminster	Los Angeles Lakers
9	Vinnie Ernst	Providence	Boston Celtics

Seventh Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bob Woolard	Wake Forest	New York Knicks
2	Larry Brown	North Carolina	Baltimore Bullets
3	Don Clemetson	Stanford	San Francisco Warriors
4	Ira Harge	New Mexico	Detroit Pistons
5	Hunter Beckman	Memphis State	Cincinnati Royals
6	Ken Rohloff	North Carolina State	St. Louis Hawks
7	Bill Brown	Howard Payne	Syracuse Nationals
8	Gordie Martin	USC	Los Angeles Lakers
9	Herb Magee	Philadelphia Textile	Boston Celtics

Eighth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Fred Crawford	St. Bonaventure	New York Knicks
2	Dick Riesback	Iowa State	Baltimore Bullets
3	Harry Dinnell	Pepperdine	San Francisco Warriors
4	Gary Silc	Northern Michigan	Detroit Pistons
5	Harold Strothers	Texas A&M	St. Louis Hawks

Ninth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Ray Cronk	Lakeland	New York Knicks
2	Ron Jackson	Wisconsin	Baltimore Bullets
3	Chuck White	Idaho	San Francisco Warriors
4	Ernie Durston	Seattle	Detroit Pistons
5	Frank Davis	Oklahoma Christian	St. Louis Hawks

Tenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Gerald Glur	Furman	New York Knicks
2	M.C. Thompson	DePaul	Baltimore Bullets
3	Carl Ritter	SE Missouri State	St. Louis Hawks

Eleventh Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Orb Bowling	Tennessee	New York Knicks
2	Marv Straw	Iowa State	St. Louis Hawks

Twelfth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bob Walter	Baldwin-Wallace	New York Knicks
2	Hugh Evans	North Carolina A&T	St. Louis Hawks

Thirteenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Jerry Szachara	Cornell	New York Knicks
2	Gary McFarland	Central Missouri State	St. Louis Hawks

Fourteenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bill Raftery	La Salle	New York Knicks

Fifteenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Ron Pickett	Eastern Kentucky	New York Knicks