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1978 NBA Draft

202 picks — 174 college · 0 international

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Round 1 (22 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
1 POR Mychal Thompson PF 6-10 / 226 Minnesota College Senior
2 KCK Phil Ford PG 6-2 / 175 North Carolina College Senior
3 IND Rick Robey PF 6-11 / 230 Kentucky College Senior
4 NYK Michael Ray Richardson — — Montana College —
5 GSW Purvis Short SF 6-7 / 210 Jackson State College Senior
6 BOS Larry Bird SF 6-9 / 220 Indiana State College Junior
7 POR Ron Brewer SG 6-4 / 180 Arkansas College Senior
8 BOS Freeman Williams SG 6-4 / 180 Portland State College Senior
9 CHI Reggie Theus SG 6-6 / 190 UNLV College Junior
10 ATL Butch Lee PG 6-0 / 185 Marquette College Senior
11 NOJ James Hardy PF 6-8 / 220 San Francisco College Junior
12 MIL George Johnson PF 6-7 / 210 St. Johns College Senior
13 NJN Winford Boynes SG 6-6 / 185 San Francisco College Junior
14 WSB Roger Phegley SG 6-6 / 205 Bradley College Senior
15 CLE Mike Mitchell PF 6-7 / 215 Auburn College Senior
16 ATL Jack Givens SF 6-5 / 205 Kentucky College Senior
17 DEN Rod Griffin PF 6-7 / 215 Wake Forest College Senior
18 WSB Dave Corzine C 6-11 / 250 DePaul College Senior
19 PHO Marty Byrnes SF 6-7 / 215 Syracuse College Senior
20 SAS Frankie Sanders — — Southern College —
21 DEN Mike Evans PG 6-1 / 170 Kansas State College Senior
22 GSW Raymond Townsend — — UCLA College —
Round 2 (22 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
23 DET Terry Tyler PF 6-7 / 215 Detroit Mercy College Senior
24 POR Keith Herron SF 6-6 / 195 Villanova College Senior
25 ATL Rick Wilson SF 6-5 / 200 Louisville College Senior
26 LAL Ron Carter SF 6-5 / 190 VMI College Senior
27 IND Wayne Radford SG 6-3 / 205 Indiana College Senior
28 HOU Buster Matheney — — Utah College —
29 DET John Long SG 6-5 / 195 Detroit Mercy College Senior
30 BOS Jeff Judkins SF 6-6 / 185 Utah College Senior
31 CHI Marvin Johnson SF 6-5 / 190 New Mexico College Senior
32 NYK John Rudd PF 6-7 / 230 McNeese State College Senior
33 CLE Harry Davis PF 6-7 / 220 Florida State College Senior
34 NYK Greg Bunch SF 6-6 / 190 Cal State-Fullerton College Senior
35 NOJ Tommie Green — — Southern College —
36 PHI Maurice Cheeks PG 6-1 / 180 West Texas A&M College Senior
37 WSB Terry Sykes PF 6-7 / 200 Grambling College Senior
38 LAL Lew Massey SG 6-4 / 202 Charlotte College Senior
39 SEA James Lee SF 6-5 / 230 Kentucky College Senior
40 GSW Wayne Cooper C 6-10 / 220 New Orleans College Senior
41 SDC Jerome Whitehead PF 6-10 / 215 Marquette College Senior
42 SEA Keven McDonald SF 6-5 / 220 Pennsylvania College Senior
43 PHI Glenn Hagan PG 6-0 / 170 St. Bonaventure College Senior
44 POR Clemon Johnson C 6-10 / 240 Florida A&M College Senior
Round 3 (22 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
45 NJN Mike Phillips — — Kentucky College —
46 DEN Hollis Copeland — — Rutgers College —
47 HOU Billy Ray Bates — — Kentucky State College —
48 SDC Mike Santos — — Utah State College —
49 KCK Jeff Cook — — Idaho State College —
50 BOS Dana Skinner — — Merrimack — —
51 SDC Ricky Gallon — — Louisville College —
52 KCK Mike Russell — — Texas Tech College —
53 CHI Randy Ayers — — Miami (Ohio) College —
54 ATL Steve Grant — — Manhattan College —
55 NYK Marc Iavaroni — — Virginia College —
56 GSW Steve Neff — — Southern Nazarene — —
57 CLE Kenny Higgs — — Louisiana State College —
58 WSB Rick Apke — — Creighton College —
59 MIL Pat Cummings — — Cincinnati College —
60 LAL Michael Cooper — — New Mexico College —
61 SEA Dave Baxter — — Michigan College —
62 NJN Dave Batton — — Notre Dame College —
63 PHO Joel Kramer — — San Diego State College —
64 SAS Gerald Henderson — — VCU College —
65 SDC Marvin Delph — — Arkansas College —
66 POR Sterling Edmonds — — Dartmouth College —
Round 4 (22 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
67 HOU Jackie Robinson — — UNLV College —
68 SDC Jim Boylan — — Marquette College —
69 HOU Joel Thompson — — Michigan College —
70 KCK Geoff Crompton — — North Carolina College —
71 IND Rickey Lee — — Oregon State College —
72 BOS Dave Nelson — — Bloomfield — —
73 SDC Larry Harris — — Pittsburgh College —
74 NOJ Mel Davis — — North Texas College —
75 NOJ Jeff Covington — — Youngstown State — —
76 SDC Leroy McDonald — — Wake Forest College —
77 GSW Derrick Jackson — — Georgetown College —
78 CLE Stan Rome — — Clemson College —
79 NYK Erving Giddings — — Dayton College —
80 MIL Otis Howard — — Austin Peay College —
81 WSB Lawrence Boston — — Maryland College —
82 LAL Harold Robertson — — Lincoln (Mo.) — —
83 SEA Billy Lewis — — Illinois State College —
84 NJN Walter Jordan — — Purdue College —
85 PHO Bob Miller — — Cincinnati College —
86 SAS Rich Adams — — Illinois College —
87 PHI Brett Vroman — — UNLV College —
88 PHO Wayne Smith — — UC Irvine College —
Round 5 (22 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
89 NJN Cecil Rose — — Houston College —
90 SDC David Thompson — — Florida State College —
91 HOU Gary Goodner — — Texas College —
92 IND James Sparrow — — North Carolina A&T College —
93 KCK Derrick Clairborne — — Massachusetts College —
94 BOS Greg Tynes — — Seton Hall College —
95 DET Dave Caligaris — — Northeastern College —
96 NOJ Duck Williams — — Notre Dame College —
97 CHI Ron Anthony — — Jacksonville College —
98 ATL Chris Potter — — Holy Cross College —
99 CLE Ken Koenigs — — Kansas College —
100 NYK Greg Green — — Southern College —
101 GSW Bubba Wilson — — Western Carolina College —
102 WSB Roger Dickens — — Towson — —
103 MIL Russ Coleman — — Pacific College —
104 LAL Carlos Terry — — Winston-Salem State College —
105 SEA Ralph Drollinger — — UCLA College —
106 DEN Michael Edwards — — Rio Grande College —
107 PHO Andre Wakefield — — Loyola, Chicago College —
108 SAS Eugene Parker — — Purdue College —
109 PHI Mark Haymore — — Massachusetts College —
110 POR Clay Johnson — — Missouri College —
Round 6 (21 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
111 NJN Golie Augustus — — South Carolina College —
112 SDC Bob Misevicius — — Providence College —
113 HOU Eddie Joe Chavez — — Santa Clara College —
114 KCK Jim Krivacs — — Texas College —
115 IND Sherman Dillard — — James Madison College —
116 BOS Dave Winey — — Minnesota College —
117 DET Audie Matthews — — Illinois College —
118 NOJ John Douglas — — Kansas College —
119 CHI John Shoemaker — — Miami (Ohio) College —
120 ATL Gerald Glover — — Howard — —
121 NYK Eddie Warren — — Briarcliff — —
122 GSW Buzz Harnett — — San Diego — —
123 CLE Ron Bell — — Virginia Tech College —
124 MIL Dave Kyle — — Cleveland State College —
125 WSB Archie Aldridge — — Miami (Ohio) College —
126 LAL Kim Stewart — — Washington College —
127 DEN Robert Heard — — Columbus — —
128 PHO Charles Thompson — — Houston College —
129 SAS Harry Morgan — — Indiana State College —
130 PHI Osborne Lockhart — — Minnesota College —
131 POR Tim Evans — — Puget Sound — —
Round 7 (21 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
132 NJN Doug Jemison — — San Francisco College —
133 SDC Stan Pietkiewicz — — Auburn College —
134 HOU Stan Stewart — — Loyola Marymount College —
135 IND Ollie Matson Jr. — — Pepperdine College —
136 KCK Charles McMillian — — North Texas College —
137 BOS Steve Balkun — — Fairfield College —
138 DET Herb Entzminger — — Johnson C. Smith — —
139 NOJ Willie Howard — — New Mexico College —
140 CHI Jarvis Reynolds — — West Georgia College —
141 ATL Jim DeWeese — — Gonzaga College —
142 GSW Rick Bernard — — St. Mary's (Calif.) College —
143 CLE Tony Smith — — UNLV College —
144 NYK Gary Pember — — Nasson — —
145 WSB Ed Hopkins — — Georgetown College —
146 MIL Kim Anderson — — Missouri College —
147 LAL Larry Paige — — Colorado State College —
148 DEN Jack Gilloon — — South Carolina College —
149 PHO Steve Malovic — — San Diego State College —
150 SAS Hector Olivencia — — Sacred Heart — —
151 PHI Anthony Murray — — Alabama College —
152 POR Walter Reason — — Pacific — —
Round 8 (18 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
153 NJN Bruce Campbell — — Providence College —
154 SDC Felton Young — — Jacksonville College —
155 KCK Ron Hammye — — Bowling Green College —
156 BOS Kim Fisher — — Fairfield College —
157 DET Earl Evans — — UNLV College —
158 NOJ Carl Kilpatrick — — Louisiana-Monroe College —
159 CHI Chubby Cox — — San Francisco College —
160 ATL Ed Murphy — — Merrimack — —
161 CLE Roland Martin — — Missouri Southern — —
162 NYK Greg Sanders — — St. Bonaventure College —
163 GSW Tony Searcy — — Appalachian State — —
164 MIL Tom Zaliagiris — — North Carolina College —
165 WSB Nestor Cora — — St. Francis (N.Y.) — —
166 DEN Larry Vaculik — — Colorado College —
167 PHO George Fowler — — Pacific College —
168 SAS Henry Taylor — — Rio Grande College —
169 PHI Alan Cunningham — — Colorado State College —
170 POR Mark Wickman — — Linfield — —
Round 9 (16 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
171 NJN Frank Sowinski — — Princeton College —
172 SDC Bobby White — — Centenary College —
173 BOS Les Anderson — — George Washington College —
174 DET Ulice Payne — — Marquette College —
175 NOJ Chad Nelson — — Drake College —
176 CHI Joe Ponsetto — — DePaul College —
177 ATL Maurice Robinson — — West Virginia College —
178 NYK Denny Fields — — UNC-Wilmington College —
179 GSW Bobby Humbles — — Bradley College —
180 CLE Steve Bayless — — Central — —
181 WSB Tim Claxton — — Temple College —
182 MIL Gary Rosenberger — — Marquette College —
183 DEN Tom Schneeberger — — Air Force College —
184 PHO Nate Stokes — — Grand Canyon College —
185 SAS Rick Taylor — — Arizona State College —
186 POR Paul Cozens — — Holy Cross College —
Round 10 (16 picks)
Pick Team Player Pos Ht/Wt School Level Class
187 NJN Michael Vicens — — Holy Cross College —
188 BOS Walter Harrigan — — Brandeis — —
189 DET Dave Grauzer — — Central Michigan College —
190 NOJ Rickey Williams — — Long Beach State College —
191 CHI Mark Tucker — — Oklahoma State College —
192 ATL Marshall Lester — — Florida Southern — —
193 GSW Mike Muff — — Murray State College —
194 CLE Gary Winton — — Army — —
195 NYK Ernest Simons — — Pace — —
196 MIL Tom Anderson — — Wisconsin-Green Bay College —
197 WSB Steve Connor — — Boise State College —
198 DEN Phil Taylor — — Arizona College —
199 PHO Lewis Cohen — — Cal Poly-SLO — —
200 SAS Larry Brewster — — Florida College —
201 PHI Dennis James — — Widener — —
202 POR Tim Warkentin — — Biola — —

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