NBA Draft 1978

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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

First Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Mychal Thompson	Minnesota	Portland Trail Blazers
2	Phil Ford	North Carolina	Kansas City Kings
3	Rick Robey	Kentucky	Indiana Pacers
4	Micheal Ray Richardson	Montana	New York Knicks
5	Purvis Short	Jackson State	Golden State Warriors
6	Larry Bird	Indiana State	Boston Celtics
7	Ron Brewer	Arkansas	Portland Trail Blazers
8	Freeman Williams	Portland State	Boston Celtics
9	Reggie Theus	Nevada–Las Vegas	Chicago Bulls
10	Butch Lee	Marquette	Atlanta Hawks
11	James Hardy	San Francisco	New Orleans Jazz
12	George Johnson	St. John’s	Milwaukee Bucks
13	Winford Boynes	San Francisco	New Jersey Nets
14	Roger Phegley	Bradley	Washington Bullets
15	Mike Mitchell	Auburn	Cleveland Cavaliers
16	Jack Givens	Kentucky	Atlanta Hawks
17	Rod Griffin	Wake Forest	Denver Nuggets
18	Dave Corzine	DePaul	Washington Bullets
19	Marty Byrnes	Syracuse	Phoenix Suns
20	Frank Sanders	Southern	San Antonio Spurs
21	Mike Evans	Kansas State	Denver Nuggets
22	Raymond Townsend	UCLA	Golden State Warriors

Second Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Terry Tyler	Detroit	Detroit Pistons
2	Keith Herron	Villanova	Portland Trail Blazers
3	Rick Wilson	Louisville	Atlanta Hawks
4	Ron Carter	Virginia Military Institute	Los Angeles Lakers
5	Wayne Radford	Indiana	Indiana Pacers
6	Buster Matheney	Utah	Houston Rockets
7	John Long	Detroit	Detroit Pistons
8	Jeff Judkins	Utah	Boston Celtics
9	Marvin Johnson	New Mexico	Chicago Bulls
10	John Rudd	McNeese State	New York Knicks
11	Harry Davis	Florida State	Cleveland Cavaliers
12	Greg Bunch	Cal State–Fullerton	New York Knicks
13	Tom Green	Southern	New Orleans Jazz
14	Maurice Cheeks	West Texas State	Philadelphia 76ers
15	Terry Sykes	Grambling	Washington Bullets
16	Lew Massey	North Carolina–Charlotte	Los Angeles Lakers
17	James Lee	Kentucky	Seattle SuperSonics
18	Wayne Cooper	New Orleans	Golden State Warriors
19	Jerome Whitehead	Marquette	Buffalo Braves
20	Kevin McDonald	Penn	Seattle SuperSonics
21	Glenn Hagan	St. Bonaventure	Philadelphia 76ers
22	Clemon Johnson	Florida A&M	Portland Trail Blazers

Third Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Mike Phillips	Kentucky	New Jersey Nets
2	Hollis Copeland	Rutgers	Denver Nuggets
3	Billy Ray Bates	Kentucky State	Houston Rockets
4	Mike Santos	Utah State	Buffalo Braves
5	Jeff Cook	Idaho State	Kansas City Kings
6	Dana Skinner	Merrimack	Boston Celtics
7	Ricky Gallon	Louisville	Buffalo Braves
8	Mike Russell	Texas Tech	Kansas City Kings
9	Randy Ayers	Miami (Ohio)	Chicago Bulls
10	Steve Grant	Manhattan	Atlanta Hawks
11	Marc Iavaroni	Virginia	New York Knicks
12	Steve Neff	Bethany Nazarene	Golden State Warriors
13	Ken Higgs	Louisiana State	Cleveland Cavaliers
14	Rick Apke	Creighton	Washington Bullets
15	Pat Cummings	Cincinnati	Milwaukee Bucks
16	Michael Cooper	New Mexico	Los Angeles Lakers
17	Dave Baxter	Michigan	Seattle SuperSonics
18	Dave Batton	Notre Dame	New Jersey Nets
19	Joel Kramer	San Diego State	Phoenix Suns
20	Gerald Henderson	Virginia Commonwealth	San Antonio Spurs
21	Marvin Dalph	Arkansas	Buffalo Braves
22	Sterling Edmunds	Dartmouth	Portland Trail Blazers

Fourth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Jackie Robinson	Nevada–Las Vegas	Houston Rockets
2	Jim Boylan	Marquette	Buffalo Braves
3	Joel Thompson	Michigan	Houston Rockets
4	Jeffrey Crompton	North Carolina	Kansas City Kings
5	Ricky Lee	Oregon State	Indiana Pacers
6	Dave Nelson	Bloomfield (N.J.)	Boston Celtics
7	Larry Harris	Pittsburgh	Buffalo Braves
8	Mel Davis	North Texas State	New Orleans Jazz
9	Jeff Covington	Youngstown State	New Orleans Jazz
10	Leroy McDonald	Wake Forest	Buffalo Braves
11	Derrick Jackson	Georgetown	Golden State Warriors
12	Stan Rome	Clemson	Cleveland Cavaliers
13	Erving Giddings	Dayton	New York Knicks
14	Otis Howard	Austin Peay	Milwaukee Bucks
15	Larry Boston	Maryland	Washington Bullets
16	Harold Robertson	Lincoln	Los Angeles Lakers
17	Billy Lewis	Illinois State	Seattle SuperSonics
18	Walter Jordan	Purdue	New Jersey Nets
19	Bob Miller	Cincinnati	Phoenix Suns
20	Rich Adams	Illinois	San Antonio Spurs
21	Brett Vroman	Nevada–Las Vegas	Philadelphia 76ers
22	Wayne Smith	California–Irvine	Phoenix Suns

Fifth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Cecile Rose	Houston	New Jersey Nets
2	David Thompson	Florida State	Buffalo Braves
3	Gary Goodner	Texas	Houston Rockets
4	James Sparrow	North Carolina A&T	Indiana Pacers
5	Derick Clairborne	Massachusetts	Kansas City Kings
6	Greg Tynes	Seton Hall	Boston Celtics
7	Dave Caligaris	Northeastern	Detroit Pistons
8	Donald Williams	Notre Dame	New Orleans Jazz
9	Ron Anthony	Jacksonville	Chicago Bulls
10	Chris Potter	Holy Cross	Atlanta Hawks
11	Ken Koenigs	Kansas	Cleveland Cavaliers
12	Greg Green	Southern	New York Knicks
13	Bubba Wilson	Western Carolina	Golden State Warriors
14	Roger Dickens	Towson State	Washington Bullets
15	Russ Coleman	Pacific	Milwaukee Bucks
16	Carlos Terry	Winston-Salem	Los Angeles Lakers
17	Ralph Drollinger	UCLA	Seattle SuperSonics
18	Michael Edwards	Pan American	Denver Nuggets
19	Andre Wakefield	Loyola (Ill.)	Phoenix Suns
20	Eugene Parker	Purdue	San Antonio Spurs
21	Mark Haymoore	Massachusetts	Philadelphia 76ers
22	Clay Johnson	Missouri	Portland Trail Blazers

Sixth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Golie Augustus	South Carolina	New Jersey Nets
2	Bob Miscevicious	Providence	Buffalo Braves
3	Eddie Joe Chavez	Santa Clara	Houston Rockets
4	Jim Krivacs	Texas	Kansas City Kings
5	Sherman Dillard	James Madison	Indiana Pacers
6	Dave Winey	Minnesota	Boston Celtics
7	Audie Matthews	Illinois	Detroit Pistons
8	John Douglas	Kansas	New Orleans Jazz
9	John Shoemaker	Miami (Ohio)	Chicago Bulls
10	Gerald Glover	Howard	Atlanta Hawks
11	Ed Warren	Briarcliff	New York Knicks
12	Buzz Hartnett	San Diego	Golden State Warriors
13	Ron Bell	Virginia Tech	Cleveland Cavaliers
14	Dave Kyle	Cleveland State	Milwaukee Bucks
15	Archie Aldridge	Miami (Ohio)	Washington Bullets
16	Kim Stewart	Washington	Los Angeles Lakers
17	Robert Heard	Columbus (Ga.)	Denver Nuggets
18	Charles Thompson	Houston	Phoenix Suns
19	Harry Morgan	Indiana State	San Antonio Spurs
20	Osborne Lockhart	Minnesota	Philadelphia 76ers
21	Tim Evans	Puget Sound	Portland Trail Blazers

Seventh Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Doug Jemison	San Francisco	New Jersey Nets
2	Stan Pietkiewicz	Auburn	Buffalo Braves
3	Stan Stewart	Loyola Marymount	Houston Rockets
4	Ollie Matson Jr.	Pepperdine	Indiana Pacers
5	Charles McMilliam	North Texas State	Kansas City Kings
6	Steve Balkun	Fairfield	Boston Celtics
7	Herb Entzminger	J.C. Smith	Detroit Pistons
8	Willie Howard	New Mexico	New Orleans Jazz
9	Jarvis Reynolds	West Georgia	Chicago Bulls
10	Jim DeWeese	Gonzaga	Atlanta Hawks
11	Rick Bernard	St. Mary’s (Cal.)	Golden State Warriors
12	Tony Smith	Nevada–Las Vegas	Cleveland Cavaliers
13	Gary Pember	Nasson	New York Knicks
14	Ed Hopkins	Georgetown	Washington Bullets
15	Kim Anderson	Missouri	Milwaukee Bucks
16	Larry Paige	Colorado State	Los Angeles Lakers
17	Jack Gilloon	South Carolina	Denver Nuggets
18	Steve Malovic	San Diego State	Phoenix Suns
19	Hector Olivencia	Sacred Heart	San Antonio Spurs
20	Anthony Murray	Alabama	Philadelphia 76ers
21	Walter Reason	Pacific	Portland Trail Blazers

Eighth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Bruce Campbell	Providence	New Jersey Nets
2	Felton Young	Jacksonville	Buffalo Braves
3	Ron Hammye	Bowling Green	Kansas City Kings
4	Kim Fisher	Fairfield	Boston Celtics
5	Earl Evans	Nevada–Las Vegas	Detroit Pistons
6	Carl Kilpatrick	NE Louisiana	New Orleans Jazz
7	Chubby Cox	San Francisco	Chicago Bulls
8	Ed Murphy	Merrimack	Atlanta Hawks
9	Roland Martin	Missouri Southern	Cleveland Cavaliers
10	Greg Sanders	St. Bonaventure	New York Knicks
11	Tony Searcy	Appalachian State	Golden State Warriors
12	Tom Zaligaris	North Carolina	Milwaukee Bucks
13	Nestor Cora	St. Francis (N.Y.)	Washington Bullets
14	Larry Vaculik	Colorado	Denver Nuggets
15	George Fowler	Pacific	Phoenix Suns
16	Henry Taylor	Pan American	San Antonio Spurs
17	Alan Cunningham	Colorado State	Philadelphia 76ers
18	Mark Wickman	Linfield	Portland Trail Blazers

Ninth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Frank Sowinski	Princeton	New Jersey Nets
2	Bobby White	Centenary	Buffalo Braves
3	Les Anderson	George Washington	Boston Celtics
4	Ulice Payne	Marquette	Detroit Pistons
5	Chad Nelson	Drake	New Orleans Jazz
6	Joe Ponsetto	DePaul	Chicago Bulls
7	Maurice Robinson	West Virginia	Atlanta Hawks
8	Danny Fields	North Carolina–Wilmington	New York Knicks
9	Bobby Humbles	Bradley	Golden State Warriors
10	Steve Bayless	Central State (Ohio)	Cleveland Cavaliers
11	Tim Claxton	Temple	Washington Bullets
12	Gary Rosenberger	Marquette	Milwaukee Bucks
13	Tom Schneeburger	Air Force	Denver Nuggets
14	Nate Stokes	Grand Canyon	Phoenix Suns
15	Rick Taylor	Arizona State	San Antonio Spurs
16	Paul Cozens	Holy Cross	Portland Trail Blazers

Tenth Round

Pick	Player	School	Team
1	Michael Vicens	Holy Cross	New Jersey Nets
2	Walter Harrigan	Brandeis	Boston Celtics
3	Dave Grauzer	Central Michigan	Detroit Pistons
4	Rickey Williams	Long Beach State	New Orleans Jazz
5	Mark Tucker	Oklahoma	Chicago Bulls
6	Marshall Lester	Florida Southern	Atlanta Hawks
7	Mike Muff	Murray State	Golden State Warriors
8	Gary Winston	Army	Cleveland Cavaliers
9	Ernest Simons	Pace	New York Knicks
10	Tom Anderson	Wisconsin–Green Bay	Milwaukee Bucks
11	Steve Connor	Boise State	Washington Bullets
12	Phil Taylor	Arizona	Denver Nuggets
13	Lewis Cohen	Cal Poly–San Luis Obispo	Phoenix Suns
14	Larry Brewster	Florida	San Antonio Spurs
15	Dennis James	Widener	Philadelphia 76ers
16	Tim Workington	Biola (La.)	Portland Trail Blazers