1952 NBA draft
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox sports draft The 1952 NBA draft was the sixth annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 26, 1952, before the 1952–53 season. In this draft, ten remaining NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. In each round, the teams selected in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season, except for the defending champion, the Minneapolis Lakers, who was assigned the last pick of each round. The draft consisted of 17 rounds comprising 106 players selected.
Draft selections and draftee career notes
Mark Workman from West Virginia University was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Hawks. Bill Mlkvy from Temple University was selected before the draft as Philadelphia Warriors' territorial pick. Don Meineke from the University of Dayton was selected by the Fort Wayne Pistons in the second round and went on to win the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award.[1] The ninth pick of the draft, Clyde Lovellette from University of Kansas, was the only player from that draft to make it to an NBA All-Star Game at least once and to have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame.[2][3] As such, it would be seen as one of the least successful and less talked about drafts in NBA history.
Tenth-round pick Gene Conley played both professional basketball and baseball. He played six seasons in the NBA for the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks as well as 11 seasons in the Major League Baseball (MLB). He won three NBA championships with the Celtics as well as the 1957 World Series with the Milwaukee Braves, becoming the only athlete to win world championships in both basketball and baseball.[4]
Dick Groat from Duke was picked 3rd overall by the Fort Wayne Pistons and went on to win the National League 1960 MVP, and two World Series championships while playing shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates and then the St. Louis Cardinals.
Key
| Pos. | G | F | C |
| Position | Guard | Forward | Center |
Draft
| Round | Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | College |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:HsT | Template:Hs– | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Philadelphia Warriors | Temple |
| 1 | Template:Hs1 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Milwaukee Hawks | West Virginia |
| 1 | Template:Hs2 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Eastern Kentucky |
| 1 | Template:Hs3 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Fort Wayne Pistons | Duke |
| 1 | Template:Hs4 | Script error: No such module "Sort".# | G | Template:Flagu | Indianapolis Olympians | LSU |
| 1 | Template:Hs5 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | New York Knicks | Whitworth |
| 1 | Template:Hs6 | Script error: No such module "Sort".# | F | Template:Flagu | Boston Celtics | Missouri |
| 1 | Template:Hs7 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Syracuse Nationals | Louisville |
| 1 | Template:Hs8 | Script error: No such module "Sort".# | F/C | Template:Flagu | Rochester Royals | Iowa |
| 1 | Template:Hs9 | Script error: No such module "Sort".^ | F/C | Template:Flagu | Minneapolis Lakers | Kansas |
| 2 | 10 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Milwaukee Hawks | Syracuse |
| 2 | 11 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Dayton |
| 2 | 12 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Fort Wayne Pistons | Dayton |
| 2 | 13 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Philadelphia Warriors | Texas A&M |
| 2 | 14 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Indianapolis Olympians | St. John's |
| 2 | 15 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | New York Knicks | Utah State |
| 2 | 16 | Script error: No such module "Sort".# | G | Template:Flagu | Boston Celtics | Kansas State |
| 2 | 17 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Syracuse Nationals | NYU |
| 2 | 18 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Rochester Royals | St. John's |
| 2 | 19 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Minneapolis Lakers | Cincinnati |
Other picks
The following list includes other draft picks who have appeared in at least one NBA game.[5][6]
| Round | Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | College |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 25 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | New York Knicks | NYU |
| 4 | 37 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Boston Celtics | Canisius |
| 4 | 38 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Rochester Royals | St. John's |
| 4 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Lawrence Tech | |
| 5 | 40 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Milwaukee Hawks | TCU |
| 5 | 43 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Philadelphia Warriors | Villanova |
| 5 | 44 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Indianapolis Olympians | Western Kentucky |
| 5 | 47 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Syracuse Nationals | Maryland State |
| 6 | 59 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G/F | Template:Flagu | Minneapolis Lakers | Cincinnati |
| 7 | 61 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | New Mexico A&M |
| 7 | 64 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Indianapolis Olympians | Kentucky |
| 8 | 73 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Philadelphia Warriors | Wyoming |
| 8 | 75 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | New York Knicks | Long Island |
| 10 | 90 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F/C | Template:Flagu | Boston Celtics | Washington State |
| 11 | 93 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Oregon |
| 11 | 96 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Minneapolis Lakers | Purdue |
| 12 | 97 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Baltimore Bullets | Stanford |
Notable undrafted players
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| Player | Pos. | Nationality | School/club team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | G | Template:Flagu | Fordham |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | C | Template:Flagu | Oklahoma State |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Loyola Chicago |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | F | Template:Flagu | Louisville |
See also
References
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External links
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