NBA Draft 1950

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Early draft records are incomplete, so until 1956 players are listed in the order in which they were selected by each team.

Contents 1 First Round 2 Second Round 3 Third Round 4 Baltimore Bullets 5 Boston Celtics 6 Chicago Stags 7 Fort Wayne Pistons 8 Indianapolis Olympians 9 Minneapolis Lakers 10 New York Knicks 11 Philadelphia Warriors 12 Rochester Royals 13 Syracuse Nationals 14 Tri-Cities Blackhawks 15 Washington Capitols

First Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Chuck Share	Bowling Green	Boston Celtics
2	Don Rehfeldt	Wisconsin	Baltimore Bullets
3	Bob Cousy	Holy Cross	Tri-Cities Blackhawks
4	Dick Schnittker	Ohio State	Washington Capitals
5	Larry Foust	La Salle	Chicago Stags
6	Irwin Dambrot	CCNY	New York Knicks
7	George Yardley	Stanford	Fort Wayne Pistons
8	Bob Lavoy	Western Kentucky	Indianapolis Olympians
9	John McNamee	San Francisco	Rochester Royals
10	Kevin O'Shea	Notre Dame	Minneapolis Lakers
11	Don Lofgran	San Francisco	Syracuse Nationals

Second Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Chuck Cooper	Dukes	Boston Celtics
2	John Pilch	Wyoming	Baltimore Bullets
3	Ed Dahler	Duquesne	Tri-Cities Blackhawks
4	Ed Gayda	Washington State	Washington Capitals
5	Bill Sharman	USC	Washington Capitols
6	Herb Scherer	Long Island	New York Knicks
7	Jim Riffey	Tulane	Fort Wayne Pistons
8	Paul Unruh	Bradley	Indianapolis Olympians
9	George Stanich	UCLA	Rochester Royals
10	Hal Haskins	Hamline	Minneapolis Lakers
11	Gerry Calabrese	St. John's	Syracuse Nationals

Third Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bob Donham	Ohio State	Boston Celtics
2	Dick Dickey	North Carolina State	Baltimore Bullets
3	Buddy Cate	Western Kentucky	Philadelphia Warriors
4	Clarence Brannum	Kansas State	Tri-Cities Blackhawks
5	Alan Sawyer	UCLA	Washington Capitols
6	Lou Watson	Indiana	Chicago Stags
7	Stan Weber	Bowling Green State	New York Knicks
8	Art Burris	Tennessee	Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons
9	Charles Mrazovich	Eastern Kentucky	Indianapolis Olympians
10	Bob Roper	John Carroll	Rochester Royals
11	Howie Williams	Purdue	Minneapolis Lakers

Baltimore Bullets

Player	School
Don Rehfeldt	Wisconsin
John Pitch	Wyoming
Dick Dickey	North Carolina State
Jerry Reed	Wyoming
Norm Mager	CCNY
Rick Harman	Kansas State
Frank Comerford	La Salle
George Bush	Toledo
Jack Laub	Cincinnati
Mike Zedalis	Loyola (Md.)

Boston Celtics

Player	School
Chuck Share	Bowling Green
Chuck Cooper	Duquesne
Bob Donham	Ohio State
Ken Reeves	Louisville
Jack Shelton	Oklahoma A&M
Fran Mahoney	Brown
Dale Barnstable	Kentucky
Frank Oftring	Holy Cross
Bob Cope	Montana State
Matt Forman	Holy Cross

Chicago Stags

Player	School
Larry Foust	La Salle
Wally Osterkorn	Illinois
Lou Watson	Indiana
Ken Murray	St. Bonaventure
Don Stroot	Missouri
Stu Inman	San Jose State
Milt Whitehead	Nebraska
George King	Morris Harvey
John Brown	Georgetown
Bud Schaeffer	Wheaton

Fort Wayne Pistons

Player	School
George Yardley	Stanford
Jim Riffey	Tulane
Art Burris	Tennessee
Len Rzewszewski	Indiana State
Ed Thompson	Kent State
Bob Metcalf	Valparaiso
Ed Jones	Tennessee
Billy Joe Adcock	Vanderbilt
Al Henningsen	NW Missouri

Indianapolis Olympians

Player	School
Bob Lavoy	Western Kentucky
Paul Unruh	Bradley
Charles Mrazovich	Eastern Kentucky
Jim Line	Kentucky
Sonny Allen	Morehead State
Ralph O'Brien	Butler
Leon Blevins	Arizona
Jerry Stuteville	Indiana
Colin Anderson	Georgia Tech
Gene Schmidt	Texas Christian
Jimmy Doyle	Butler

Minneapolis Lakers

Player	School
Kevin O'Shea	Notre Dame
Hal Haskins	Hamline
Howie Williams	Purdue
Bud Grant	Minnesota
Ed Beach	West Virginia
Wayne Glasgow	Oklahoma
Joe Hutton Jr.	Hamline
Newt Benson	River Falls Teachers
Jim Reilly	Swarthmore
Andy Butchko	Purdue

New York Knicks

Player	School
Irwin Dambrot	CCNY
Herb Scherer	Long Island
Stan Weber	Bowling Green
Joe Ossola	St. Louis
Dick Barnes	San Diego State
Don Parsons	Rutgers
Dan Bagley	Notre Dame
Charles Hope	Appalachian
Don Heathington	Baylor

Philadelphia Warriors

Player	School
Paul Arizin	Villanova
Ed Dahler	Duquesne
Buddy Cate	Western Kentucky
Paul Senesky	St. Joseph’s (Pa.)
Ike Borsavage	Temple
Dick Dallmer	Cincinnati
Charles Northup	Siena
Brooks Ricca	Villanova
Joe Kaufman	New York University
Bernie Adams	Princeton
Leo Wolfe	Villanova
Ed Montgomery	Tennessee

Rochester Royals

Player	School
Joe McNamee	San Francisco
George Stanich	UCLA
Bob Roper	John Carroll
Chet Giermak	William & Mary
Joe Nelson	Brigham Young
John Givens	Western Kentucky
Dan Kahler	Southwestern (Kan.)
Carl Kraushaar	UCLA
Warren Switzer	Rice
Harry Foley	Niagara

Syracuse Nationals

Player	School
Don Lofgran	San Francisco
Gerry Calabrese	St. John’s
Stan Christie	USC
Paul Merchant	Oklahoma
Paul Hickey	Denver
Mack Suprunowicz	Michigan
Lou Arko	Akron
Bob Healey	Georgia
Bob Savage	Syracuse
Glenn Wilkes	Mercer

Tri-Cities Blackhawks

Player	School
Bob Cousy	Holy Cross
Ed Gayda	Washington State
Clarence Brannum	Kansas State
Paul Hicks	Eastern Kentucky
Cal Christensen	Toledo
Bob Anderson	Loyola (Md.)
Bill Erickson	Illinois
Loy Doty	Wyoming
Nate DeLong	River Falls Teachers
Keith Bloom	Wyoming

Washington Capitols

Player	School
Dick Schnittker	Ohio State
Bill Sharman	USC
Alan Sawyer	UCLA
Tom O'Keefe	Georgetown
Claude Overton	East Central Oklahoma
Warren Cartier	North Carolina State
Jim Cathcart	Arkansas
Joe Greenbach	Santa Clara
Earl Lloyd	West Virginia State
Joe Noertker	Virginia