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1947 BAA Draft

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Date: Tuesday, July 1, 1947
Location: Detroit, Michigan

Number of Picks: 80 (32 played in BAA/NBA)
First Overall Pick: Clifton McNeeley

Most Win Shares: H. Gallatin (78.4), A. Phillip (53.3) and R. Rocha (47.9)

All-Stars: 4 (H. Gallatin, A. Phillip, J. Pollard and R. Rocha)

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80 Selections

Stats shown are for the player's NBA career
Round 1 Totals Shooting Per Game Advanced
Pk Tm Player College G MP PTS TRB AST FG% 3P% FT% MP PTS TRB AST WS WS/48
1 PIT Clifton McNeeley University of Texas at El Paso
2 TRH Glen Selbo University of Wisconsin 13 42 23 .196 .759 3.2 1.8 -0.2
3 BOS Bulbs Ehlers Purdue University 99 800 177 .286 .618 8.1 1.8 3.0
4 PRO Walt Dropo University of Connecticut
5 NYK Dick Holub Long Island University 48 504 37 .295 .633 10.5 0.8 4.2
6 PHW Chink Crossin University of Pennsylvania 147 694 223 .318 .711 4.7 1.5 3.7
7 STB Jack Underman Ohio State University
8 CHS Paul Huston Ohio State University 46 164 27 .237 .697 3.6 0.6 1.2
9 WSC Dick O'Keefe Santa Clara University 172 888 37 160 .272 .640 5.2 2.2 0.9 1.7
10 BLB Larry Killick University of Vermont
Other Picks Totals Shooting Per Game Advanced
Pk Tm Player College G MP PTS TRB AST FG% 3P% FT% MP PTS TRB AST WS WS/48
BLB Robert Bolyard University of Toledo
BLB Elmer Gainer DePaul University 20 29 10 .227 .643 1.5 0.5 -0.3
BLB Harry Gallatin Truman State University 682 15813 8843 6684 1208 .398 .773 31.9 13.0 11.9 1.8 78.4 .182
BLB Scotty Hamilton West Virginia University
BLB Hugh Hampton High Point University
BLB Bob Jake University of Vermont
BLB Charles Raynor University of Houston
BLB Chick Reiser New York University 171 1773 346 .321 .772 10.4 2.0 13.2
BLB John Rusinko Pennsylvania State University
BOS Bob Alemeida
BOS Hank Biasatti Long Island University 6 6 0 .400 .500 1.0 0.0 0.1
BOS Johnny Ezersky University of Rhode Island 135 1031 169 .288 .669 7.6 1.3 1.5
BOS George Felt Northwestern University
BOS Jack Hewson Temple University 24 65 1 .247 .700 2.7 0.0 0.1
BOS John Kelly University of Notre Dame
BOS George Petrovick
BOS Gene Stump DePaul University 148 783 118 .303 .692 5.3 0.8 1.1
CHS Ralph Bishop University of Washington
CHS Jimmy Darden University of Denver 26 211 67 .321 .688 8.1 2.6 -0.2
CHS Hank Decker West Texas A&M University
CHS Andy Phillip University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 701 15378 6384 2395 3759 .368 .695 32.2 9.1 4.4 5.4 53.3 .077
CHS Jim Pollard Stanford University 438 9391 5762 2487 1417 .360 .750 35.4 13.2 7.8 3.2 34.9 .093
CHS Ben Schadler Northwestern University 37 56 6 .198 .769 1.5 0.2 -0.5
CHS Don Smith University of Minnesota 8 6 2 .154 .667 0.8 0.3 -0.1
CHS Jack Stone Kansas State University
CHS Gene Vance University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 175 118 1445 109 403 .315 .687 16.9 8.3 3.0 2.3 10.3 -0.008
NYK Andy Duncan College of William & Mary 136 746 30 101 .408 .596 5.5 2.1 0.7 6.8
NYK Ray Evans University of Kansas
NYK Ed Golub
NYK Garland Head Texas Tech University
NYK Ron Livingston Saint Mary's College of California
NYK Dan Miller Saint Louis University
NYK Wat Misaka University of Utah 3 7 0 .231 .333 2.3 0.0 0.0
NYK Carl Reichert University of Findlay
NYK Tom Tomlinson Southern Methodist University
PHW Norman Butz Saint Joseph's University
PHW Jim Kaeding York College of Pennsylvania
PHW Ed Koffenberger Duke University
PHW Jim Pollard Stanford University 438 9391 5762 2487 1417 .360 .750 35.4 13.2 7.8 3.2 34.9 .093
PIT Bob Alamo Santa Clara University
PIT George Brown
PIT Dick Ives University of Iowa
PIT Herman Knoche Washington & Jefferson College
PIT Fritz Nagy University of Akron 50 253 68 .347 .670 5.1 1.4 2.1
PIT Jack Walton DePaul University
PRO Joe Barry
PRO Dick Furey University of St. Thomas
PRO Bob Hubbard Springfield College 62 224 29 .249 .674 3.6 0.5 -0.9
PRO Bob Joyce Bates College
PRO Roy Lipscomb St. Mary's College of Maryland
PRO John Mills Hofstra University
PRO Al Nichols University of Rhode Island
STB Jack Knopf University of Louisville
STB Bob Kurland Oklahoma State University
STB Paul Napolitano University of San Francisco 1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
STB Jim Pollard Stanford University 438 9391 5762 2487 1417 .360 .750 35.4 13.2 7.8 3.2 34.9 .093
STB Bill Strannigan University of Wyoming
STB Herb Wilkinson University of Iowa
TRH Frank Broyles Georgia Institute of Technology
TRH Paul Hoffman Purdue University 317 5130 3234 1129 911 .340 .676 28.7 10.2 5.1 2.9 12.9 .031
TRH Wimpy Quinn University of Oregon
TRH Red Rocha Oregon State University 586 10507 6362 2747 1153 .370 .759 29.9 10.9 6.6 2.0 47.9 .109
WSC Bill Burke St. Mary's College of Maryland
WSC Paul Cloyd University of Wisconsin 7 19 2 .269 .625 2.7 0.3 -0.1
WSC John Mandic Oregon State University 81 335 88 .316 .660 4.1 1.1 2.4
WSC Saul Mariaschin Harvard University 43 333 60 .270 .709 7.7 1.4 1.1
WSC Abel Rodriguez University of San Francisco
WSC Irv Rothenberg Long Island University 131 709 90 .267 .606 5.4 0.7 3.6
WSC Jack Tingle University of Kentucky 39 91 8 .259 .515 2.3 0.2 0.4
WSC Matt Zunic George Washington University 56 273 50 .303 .706 4.9 0.9 2.0