1947 BAA draft
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox sports draft The 1947 BAA draft was the first ever draft of the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) to become the National Basketball Association (NBA). The fledgling BAA held this draft as a joint draft with the established NBL. The BAA first discussed the idea of creating a draft system similar to the NFL draft (which was first implemented back in 1936) back on January 1947 during league meetings held in New York, with each team being given territorial pick rights to one player each year from schools in a 50 mile radius. However, both leagues wanted to control salaries by stamping out competitive bidding between the two leagues from college players that may or may not have been returning home from World War II by assigning exclusive rights to the team selecting a player.[1] The NBL had already signed 11 players, whom they did not feel should be exposed to the draft. The players included college stars Jack Smiley, Ralph Hamilton, Harry Boykoff, John Hargis, Frank Brian, and Charlie Black. As a trade-off, the BAA teams were allowed to select players early on before the NBL did. Including the NBL's draft side of things (which saw at least ten teams of their own participate in the event themselves), the overall draft program would have included 100 players (mainly college seniors) drafted between the two leagues.[2]
The draft was held on June 2, 1947, months before the 1947–48 season began. During this draft, the nine remaining BAA teams (both the Cleveland Rebels and Detroit Falcons decided to decline their entries into the draft while still remaining as existing franchises at the time) along with the Baltimore Bullets, who joined the BAA from the American Basketball League after a dispute they had during the ABL playoffs with that league, took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. In the first round of the draft, the teams selected in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season, while the Bullets were assigned the tenth pick, the last pick of the first round, due in part to their overwhelming 31–3 record they had in the ABL beating out even the 49–11 record held by the Washington Capitols. Both the Pittsburgh Ironmen and Toronto Huskies participated in this draft, but they folded before the season opened alongside the Cleveland Rebels and Detroit Falcons.
Draft selections and draftee career notes
The first selection of the draft, Clifton McNeely from Texas Wesleyan University, did not play in the BAA. Instead, McNeely opted for a high school coaching career in Texas.[3] The fourth pick, Walt Dropo, also did not play in the BAA and opted for a professional baseball career instead, eventually playing 13 seasons in the Major League Baseball (MLB).[4][5] The 7th and 10th picks, Jack Underman and Larry Killick, also never played in the BAA. Three players from this draft, Harry Gallatin, Andy Phillip and Jim Pollard, have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame.[6]
Wataru Misaka, selected by the New York Knicks,[7] made the team's final roster and became the first person of color to play in modern professional basketball, just months after the Major League Baseball color line had been broken by the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson.[8] Misaka was cut after playing only three games with the team.[9]
Key
| Pos. | G | F | C |
| Position | Guard | Forward | Center |
Draft
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| 1 | 1 | Script error: No such module "Sort".# | F | Template:Flagu | Pittsburgh Ironmen | Texas Wesleyan |
| 1 | 2 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Toronto Huskies | Wisconsin |
| 1 | 3 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Boston Celtics | Purdue |
| 1 | 4 | Script error: No such module "Sort".# | – | Template:Flagu | Providence Steamrollers | Connecticut |
| 1 | 5 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | C | Template:Flagu | New York Knicks | Long Island |
| 1 | 6 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Philadelphia Warriors | Pennsylvania |
| 1 | 7 | Script error: No such module "Sort".# | – | Template:Flagu | St. Louis Bombers | Ohio State |
| 1 | 8 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Chicago Stags | Ohio State |
| 1 | 9 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Washington Capitols | Santa Clara |
| 1 | 10 | Script error: No such module "Sort".# | – | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Vermont |
Other picks
The following list includes other draft picks who have appeared in at least one BAA/NBA game.[10][11]
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| 2 | 11 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Pittsburgh Ironmen | Akron |
| 2 | 12 | Script error: No such module "Sort".+ | F/C | Template:Flagu | Toronto Huskies | Oregon State |
| 2 | 13 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu Template:Flagu |
Boston Celtics | Toronto Huskies (Basketball Association of America) |
| 2 | 14 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Providence Steamrollers | Springfield |
| 2 | 18 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Chicago Stags | Northwestern |
| 2 | 19 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Washington Capitols | Kentucky |
| 3 | 23 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Boston Celtics | DePaul |
| 3 | 28 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Chicago Stags | Denver |
| 4 | 33 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Boston Celtics | Brooklyn Gothams (American Basketball League) |
| 4 | 38 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Chicago Stags | Illinois |
| 4 | 40 | Script error: No such module "Sort".^ | F/C | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Northeast Missouri |
| 5 | 42 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Toronto Huskies | Purdue |
| 5 | 43 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Boston Celtics | Philadelphia Sphas (American Basketball League) |
| 5 | 45 | Ron Livingstone | C | Template:Flagu | New York Knicks | Wyoming |
| 5 | 47 | Script error: No such module "Sort".^ | G/F | Template:Flagu | Chicago Stags | Illinois |
| 5 | 48 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Washington Capitols | George Washington |
| 6 | 53 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | New York Knicks | William & Mary |
| 6 | 54 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | St. Louis Bombers | San Francisco |
| 6 | 56 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | C | Template:Flagu | Washington Capitols | Cleveland Rebels (Basketball Association of America) |
| 7 | 61 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | New York Knicks | Utah |
| 7 | 62 | Script error: No such module "Sort".^ | F/C | Template:Flagu | Chicago Stags | Stanford |
| 7 | 63 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Washington Capitols | Harvard |
| 8 | 68 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Chicago Stags | Indianapolis Kautskys (National Basketball League) |
| 8 | 69 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Washington Capitols | Wisconsin |
| 8 | 70 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Anderson Packers (National Basketball League) |
| 9 | 74 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Washington Capitols | Portland Indians (Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League) |
| 9 | 75 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Fort Wayne Pistons (National Basketball League) |
Notable undrafted players
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| Player | Pos. | Nationality | School/club team |
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| Script error: No such module "Sort".+ | F/C | Template:Flagu | UCLA |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Kansas |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Muhlenberg |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | C | Template:Flagu | St. John's |
| Script error: No such module "Sort".^ | G | Template:Flagu | Colgate |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Notre Dame |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/G | Template:Flagu | Loyola (IL) |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Creighton |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Indiana |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Texas |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Wisconsin |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Huntington |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Illinois |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Weaver HS (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Montana State |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Wisconsin |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Michigan State |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Tennessee |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Illinois |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Westminster (PA) |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Ohio State |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Bradley |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Colorado |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | USC |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | California |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/G | Template:Flagu | Illinois |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | C | Template:Flagu | Canterbury |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | NYU |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Wyoming |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Pacific |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Wyoming |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Texas |
Notes
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See also
References
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External links
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