NBA Draft 1961

From Hoopedia

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 15 Fifteenth Round

First Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Walt Bellamy	Indiana	Chicago Packers
2	Tom Stith	St. Bonaventure	New York Knicks
3	Larry Siegfried	Ohio State	Cincinnati Royals
4	Ray Scott	Portland	Detroit Pistons
5	Wayne Yates	Memphis State	Los Angeles Lakers
6	Ben Warley	Tennessee State	Syracuse Nationals
7	Tom Meschery	St. Mary’s (Cal.)	Philadelphia Warriors
8	Cleo Hill	Winston-Salem	St. Louis Hawks
9	Gary Phillips	Houston	Boston Celtics

Second Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Ronald Martin	St. Bonaventure	New York Knicks
2	Bob Wiesenhahn	Cincinnati	Cincinnati Royals
3	Johnny Egan	Providence	Detroit Pistons
4	Fred Sawyer	Louisville	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Chris Smith	Virginia Tech	Syracuse Nationals
6	Ted Luckenbill	Houston	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Ron Horn	Indiana	St. Louis Hawks
8	Al Butler	Niagara	Boston Celtics
9	Jack Turner	Louisville	Chicago Packers
10	Jerry Graves	Mississippi State	Chicago Packers
11	York Larese	North Carolina	Chicago Packers
12	Don Kojis	Marquette	Chicago Packers
13	Doug Moe	North Carolina	Chicago Packers
14	Jeff Cohen	William & Mary	Chicago Packers

Third Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Tony Jackson	St. John’s	New York Knicks
2	Bob Nordmann	St. Louis	Cincinnati Royals
3	Doug Kistler	Duke	Detroit Pistons
4	Frank Burgess	Gonzaga	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Charles Osborne	Western Kentucky	Syracuse Nationals
6	Jack Egan	St. Joseph’s (Pa.)	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Tom Chilton	East Tennessee	St. Louis Hawks
8	Bill Depp	Vanderbilt	Boston Celtics
9	Bill Bridges	Kansas	Chicago Packers

Fourth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	George Blaney	Holy Cross	New York Knicks
2	Lowery Kirk	Memphis State	Cincinnati Royals
3	George Finley	Tennessee A&I	Detroit Pistons
4	Charles Henke	Missouri	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Henry Whitney	Iowa State	Syracuse Nationals
6	John Tidwell	Michigan	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Gus Guydon	Drake	St. Louis Hawks
8	Carl Cole	Eastern Kentucky	Boston Celtics
9	Roger Kaiser	Georgia Tech	Chicago Packers

Fifth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bill Smith	St. Peter’s	New York Knicks
2	Rossie Johnson	Tennessee A&I	Cincinnati Royals
3	Dan Doyle	Belmont Abbey	Detroit Pistons
4	Bill Lickert	Kentucky	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Don Jacobson	South Dakota	Syracuse Nationals
6	Bruce Spraggins	Virginia Union	Philadelphia Warriors
7	John Berberich	UCLA	St. Louis Hawks
8	Bob DiStefano	North Carolina State	Boston Celtics
9	Howie Carl	DePaul	Chicago Packers

Sixth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Cleveland Buckner	Jackson State	New York Knicks
2	Bob Slobodnik	Duquesne	Cincinnati Royals
3	Lee Patrone	West Virginia	Detroit Pistons
4	Bill McClintock	California	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Billy Joe Price	New Mexico State	Syracuse Nationals
6	Dick Goldberg	Mississippi Southern	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Bob McDonald	Maryland	St. Louis Hawks
8	Ned Twyman	Duquesne	Boston Celtics
9	Dave Voss	Tulsa	Chicago Packers

Seventh Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Donnis Butcher	Pikeville	New York Knicks
2	Dave Zeller	Miami (Ohio)	Cincinnati Royals
3	Burt Price	Wittenberg	Detroit Pistons
4	Albert Alamanza	Texas	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Roger Newman	Kentucky	Syracuse Nationals
6	Charles McNeil	Maryland	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Charles Riley	Winston-Salem	St. Louis Hawks
8	Mel Klein	Aberdeen	Boston Celtics
9	Ron Heller	Wichita	Chicago Packers

Eighth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Cedrick Price	Kansas State	New York Knicks
2	Jerry Thelen	Villa Madonna	Cincinnati Royals
3	Walter Ward	Hampton Institute	Detroit Pistons
4	Bill Ellis	UCLA	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Dave Mills	Seattle	Syracuse Nationals
6	Larry Swift	NE Missouri State	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Gene Velloff	Doane	St. Louis Hawks
8	John Wessels	Illinois	Chicago Packers

Ninth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Charles Bowman	Wabash College	New York Knicks
2	Larry Krueger	Ohio	Cincinnati Royals
3	Peter Baltic	Penn State	Detroit Pistons
4	Carl Anderson	Oregon State	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Rex Tippitt	Grambling	Syracuse Nationals
6	Herbert Gray	North Carolina A&T	St. Louis Hawks
7	Steve Strange	Southern Methodist	Chicago Packers

Tenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Ron Debillous	Wisconsin State Teachers	New York Knicks
2	Jack Waters	Mississippi	Cincinnati Royals
3	Wayne Monson	Northern Michigan	Detroit Pistons
4	Robert Williams	Hancock	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Pete Chudy	Syracuse	Syracuse Nationals
6	Leo Hill	Cal State–Los Angeles	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Tom Faszholz	Concordia (Mo.)	St. Louis Hawks
8	Larry Comley	Kansas State	Chicago Packers

Eleventh Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Kevin Loughery	St. John’s	New York Knicks
2	Carl Short	Newberry	Cincinnati Royals
3	Richard Kraft	Brockport State	Detroit Pistons
4	Howard Hunt	Duke	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Dick Sammons	LeMoyne	Syracuse Nationals
6	Corky Whitrow	Georgetown (Ky.)	Philadelphia Warriors
7	Dick Kepley	North Carolina	St. Louis Hawks

Twelfth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Earl Shultz	California	New York Knicks
2	George Patterson	Toledo	Cincinnati Royals
3	Jackie Crawford	Centenary	St. Louis Hawks

Thirteenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Ned Jennings	Kentucky	New York Knicks
2	Clair McRoberts	Monmouth	Cincinnati Royals
3	Howard Stacy	Louisville	St. Louis Hawks

Fourteenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bill Engressor	Louisiana State	New York Knicks
2	Carl Bouldin	Cincinnati	Cincinnati Royals

Fifteenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Vince Kempton	St. Joseph’s (Pa.)	New York Knicks