1979 NBA drafts and picks.

National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft Picks for 1979

Draft Year	Team	Draft Round	#	First Name	Lastname	Drafted From	League

1979	Atl	7	13	Tim	Waterman	St. Bonaventure	N
1979	Atl	6	13	Dwight	Williams	Gardner-Webb	N
1979	Atl	9	12	Cedric	Oliver	Hamilton	N
1979	Atl	5	13	Tiny	Pinder	North Carolina State	N
1979	Atl	2	16	Larry	Wilson	Nicholls State	N
1979	Atl	2	13	James	Bradley	Memphis State	N
1979	Atl	3	13	Don	March	Franklin & Marshall	N
1979	Atl	10	12	Chad	Nelson	Drake	N
1979	Atl	8	13	John	Goedeke	Maryland-Baltimore County	N
1979	Bos	6	2	Marvin	Delph	Arkansas	N
1979	Bos	5	2	Jimmy	Allen	New Haven	N
1979	Bos	9	2	Kevin	Sinnett	Navy	N
1979	Bos	8	2	Glenn	Sudhop	North Carolina State	N
1979	Bos	10	2	Alton	Byrd	Columbia	N
1979	Bos	7	2	Steve	Castellan	Virginia	N
1979	Bos	4	2	Nick	Galis	Seton Hall	N
1979	Bos	3	17	Ernesto	Malcolm	Briarcliff	N
1979	Bos	3	9	Wayne	Kreklow	Drake	N
1979	Chi	2	11	Lawrence	Butler	Idaho State	N
1979	Chi	8	6	Tony	Warren	North Carolina State	N
1979	Chi	7	5	Mike	Eversley	Chicago State	N
1979	Chi	6	6	Steve	Smith	USC	N
1979	Chi	4	6	George	Maynor	East Carolina	N
1979	Chi	3	3	Calvin	Garrett	Oral Roberts	N
1979	Chi	3	5	Cedrick	Hordges	South Carolina	N
1979	Chi	10	6	Marvin	Thoms	UCLA	N
1979	Chi	10	13	Cortez	Collins	Indiana State-Evansville	N
1979	Chi	5	5	Larry	Washington	Drury (MO)	N
1979	Chi	9	5	James	Jackson	Minnesota	N
1979	Chi	1	2	David	Greenwood	UCLA	N
1979	CLE	10	4	Terry	Peavy	Point Park	N
1979	CLE	6	4	Joe	Manning	North Texas State	N
1979	CLE	8	4	Mark	Haymore	Massachusetts	N
1979	CLE	3	21	Bill	Laimbeer	Notre Dame	N
1979	CLE	9	3	Tim	Joyce	Ohio	N
1979	CLE	4	4	Rick	Swing	Citadel	N
1979	CLE	7	3	Steve	Skaggs	Ohio	N
1979	CLE	5	3	Matt	Simpkins	Georgia Southern	N
1979	CLE	2	4	Bruce	Flowers	Notre Dame	N
1979	Den	9	13	Emmett	Lewis	Colorado	N
1979	Den	2	8	Gary	Garland	DePaul	N
1979	Den	6	14	Odell	Ball	Marquette	N
1979	Den	7	16	John	Johnson	Creighton	N
1979	Den	5	14	Larry	Williams	Louisville	N
1979	Den	8	15	Matt	Teahan	Denver	N
1979	Det	7	4	Ken	Jones	St. Mary's (CA)	N
1979	Det	1	4	Greg	Kelser	Michigan State	N
1979	Det	2	7	Tony	Price	Penn	N
1979	Det	6	3	Truman	Clayton	Kentucky	N
1979	Det	10	3	Willie	Polk	Grand Canyon	N
1979	Det	1	10	Roy	Hamilton	UCLA	N
1979	Det	9	4	Val	Bracey	Central Michigan	N
1979	Det	3	4	Terry	Duerod	Detroit	N
1979	Det	1	15	Phil	Hubbard	Michigan	N
1979	Det	8	3	Rodney	Lee	Memphis State	N
1979	Det	5	4	Flintie	Williams	Nevada-Las Vegas	N
1979	GSW	2	6	Danny	Salisbury	Pan American	N
1979	GSW	9	9	Gene	Ransom	California	N
1979	GSW	6	10	Jim	Mitchem	DePaul	N
1979	GSW	5	8	George	Lett	Centenary	N
1979	GSW	4	9	Ron	Ripley	Wisconsin-Green Bay	N
1979	GSW	3	10	Lynbert	Johnson	Wichita State	N
1979	GSW	10	8	Kevin	Heenan	Cal State-Fullerton	N
1979	GSW	4	16	Jerry	Sichting	Purdue	N
1979	GSW	8	8	Mario	Butler	Briarcliff	N
1979	GSW	7	9	Ren	Watson	Virginia Commonwealth	N
1979	HOU	5	16	Allen	Leavell	Oklahoma City	N
1979	HOU	6	16	Collie	Davis	Southern	N
1979	HOU	2	20	Paul	Mokeski	Kansas	N
1979	HOU	8	14	Delbert	Watson	East Tennessee State	N
1979	HOU	4	10	Sammy	Drummer	Georgia Tech	N
1979	HOU	7	15	Rich	Valavicius	Auburn	N
1979	HOU	4	14	Lionel	Green	Louisiana State	N
1979	HOU	3	15	Ricardo	Brown	Pepperdine	N
1979	HOU	1	17	Lee	Johnson	East Texas State	N
1979	Ind	5	10	Billy	Reid	San Francisco	N
1979	Ind	1	13	Dudley	Bradley	North Carolina	N
1979	Ind	6	9	Greg	Guye	Stetson	N
1979	Ind	2	10	Tony	Zeno	Arizona State	N
1979	Ind	8	10	Brian	Magid	George Washington	N
1979	Ind	4	8	Don	Newman	Idaho	N
1979	Ind	7	8	Dirk	Ewing	Stetson	N
1979	KCK	3	18	Terry	Crosby	Tennessee	N
1979	KCK	6	18	Bob	Roma	Princeton	N
1979	KCK	1	18	Reggie	King	Alabama	N
1979	KCK	10	16	Russell	Saunders	New Mexico	N
1979	KCK	4	19	John	McCullough	Oklahoma	N
1979	KCK	8	17	Tony	Vann	Alabama-Huntsville	N
1979	KCK	7	17	Nick	Daniels	Xavier (OH)	N
1979	KCK	9	15	Gary	Wilson	Southern Illinois	N
1979	KCK	5	17	Curtis	Watkins	DePaul	N
1979	LAL	2	3	Oliver	Mack	East Carolina	N
1979	LAL	4	13	Ray	White	Mississippi State	N
1979	LAL	4	15	Ricky	Reed	Temple	N
1979	LAL	1	1	Earvin	Johnson	Michigan State	N
1979	LAL	2	17	Victor	King	Louisiana Tech	N
1979	LAL	2	19	Mark	Young	Fairfield	N
1979	LAL	3	16	Walter	Daniels	Georgia	N
1979	LAL	1	1	Earvin	Johnson	Michigan State	N
1979	LAL	1	14	Brad	Holland	UCLA	N
1979	Mil	8	9	Larry	Spicer	Alabama-Birmingham	N
1979	Mil	7	10	Stan	Ray	Cal State-Fullerton	N
1979	Mil	2	9	Edgar	Jones	Nevada-Reno	N
1979	Mil	6	8	Derrick	Mayes	Illinois State	N
1979	Mil	4	3	Eugene	Robinson	NE Louisiana	N
1979	Mil	10	9	Chris	Fahrbach	North Dakota	N
1979	Mil	3	8	Larry	Gibson	Maryland	N
1979	Mil	1	5	Sidney	Moncrief	Arkansas	N
1979	Mil	9	8	Roger	Lapham	Maine	N
1979	Mil	5	9	Jim	Tillman	Eastern Kentucky	N
1979	NJN	9	7	Ricky	Free	Columbia	N
1979	NJN	8	7	Henry	Hollingsworth	Hofstra	N
1979	NJN	5	7	Joe	Abramaitis	Connecticut	N
1979	NJN	10	7	Eric	Fleisher	Tulane	N
1979	NJN	1	8	Calvin	Natt	NE Louisiana	N
1979	NJN	1	11	Cliff	Robinson	USC	N
1979	NJN	6	7	Tony	Smith	Nevada-Las Vegas	N
1979	NJN	7	7	Jim	Strickland	South Carolina	N
1979	NJN	3	7	John	Gerdy	Davidson	N
1979	NYK	5	6	Johnny	Green	California-Riverside	N
1979	NYK	9	6	Brett	Wyatt	Jersey City State	N
1979	NYK	1	21	Sylvester	Williams	Rhode Island	N
1979	NYK	2	12	Kim	Goetz	San Diego State	N
1979	NYK	8	5	Billy	Tucker	Tennessee State	N
1979	NYK	1	9	Larry	Demic	Arizona	N
1979	NYK	10	5	Gordon	Thomas	St. John's	N
1979	NYK	1	3	Bill	Cartwright	San Francisco	N
1979	NYK	6	5	Phil	Abney	New Mexico	N
1979	NYK	4	5	Larry	Rogers	SE Missouri State	N
1979	NYK	7	6	Marc	Coleman	Seton Hall	N
1979	NYK	2	5	Reggie	Carter	St. John's	N
1979	NYK	3	6	Geoff	Huston	Texas Tech	N
1979	PHI	9	14	Coby	Leavitt	Utah	N
1979	PHI	8	16	Rick	Raivio	Portland	N
1979	PHI	2	14	Clint	Richardson	Seattle	N
1979	PHI	1	16	Jim	Spanarkel	Duke	N
1979	PHI	4	17	Mike	Niles	Cal State-Fullerton	N
1979	PHI	2	15	Bernard	Toone	Marquette	N
1979	PHI	7	14	Bobby	Willis	Penn	N
1979	PHI	10	14	Keith	McCord	Alabama-Birmingham	N
1979	PHI	6	15	Dan	Hartshorne	Oregon	N
1979	PHI	3	14	Earl	Cureton	Detroit	N
1979	PHI	5	15	Carl	McPipe	Nebraska	N
1979	PHO	5	19	Mark	Eaton	Cypress JC	N
1979	PHO	7	19	Ollie	Matson	Pepperdine	N
1979	PHO	2	2	Johnny	High	Nevada-Reno	N
1979	PHO	6	19	Dale	Shackelford	Syracuse	N
1979	PHO	8	18	Charles	Jones	Albany State	N
1979	PHO	1	22	Kyle	Macy	Kentucky	N
1979	PHO	3	20	Al	Green	Louisiana State	N
1979	PHO	4	20	Malcolm	Cesare	Florida	N
1979	PHO	10	17	Korky	Nelson	Santa Clara	N
1979	PHO	9	17	Hosea	Champine	Robert Morris	N
1979	POR	5	12	Matt	White	Penn	N
1979	POR	8	12	Willie	Pounds	Chaminade	N
1979	POR	4	12	Daryll	Robinson	Appalachian State	N
1979	POR	10	11	Kelvin	Small	Oregon	N
1979	POR	7	12	Jeff	Tropf	Central Michigan	N
1979	POR	6	12	Ray	Ellis	Pepperdine	N
1979	POR	2	18	Andrew	Fields	Cheyney State	N
1979	POR	3	12	Mickey	Fox	St. Mary's (Canada)	N
1979	POR	9	11	Stan	Eckwood	Harding (AR)	N
1979	POR	1	12	Jim	Paxson	Dayton	N
1979	SAS	9	16	Eddie	McLeod	Nevada-Las Vegas	N
1979	SAS	10	15	Glen	Fine	Harvard	N
1979	SAS	7	18	Tyrone	Branyan	Texas	N
1979	SAS	4	18	Al	Daniel	Furman	N
1979	SAS	6	17	Terry	Knight	Pittsburgh	N
1979	SAS	5	18	Steve	Schall	Arkansas	N
1979	SAS	3	19	Sylvester	Norris	Jackson State	N
1979	SAS	1	19	Wiley	Peck	Mississippi State	N
1979	SDC	10	10	Greg	Hunter	Loyola Marymount	N
1979	SDC	3	11	Tom	Channel	Boston U	N
1979	SDC	5	11	Greg	Joyner	Middle Tennessee State	N
1979	SDC	8	11	Renaldo	Lawrence	Appalachian State	N
1979	SDC	4	11	Lionel	Garrett	Southern	N
1979	SDC	9	10	Mike	Dodd	San Diego State	N
1979	SDC	7	11	Jene	Grey	LeMoyne	N
1979	SDC	6	11	Bob	Bender	Duke	N
1979	Sea	1	7	Vinnie	Johnson	Baylor	N
1979	Sea	1	6	James	Bailey	Rutgers	N
1979	Sea	4	7	James	Donaldson	Washington State	N
1979	Sea	2	21	John	Moore	Texas	N
1979	Sea	4	21	Richie	Allen	Cal State-Dominguez Hills	N
1979	UTA	4	1	Greg	Deane	Utah	N
1979	UTA	6	1	Ernie	Cobb	Boston U	N
1979	UTA	5	1	Perry	Wolfe	Stanford	N
1979	UTA	1	20	Larry	Knight	Loyola (IL)	N
1979	UTA	7	1	Paul	Poe	Louisiana	N
1979	UTA	10	1	Paul	Dawkins	Northern Illinois	N
1979	UTA	9	1	Milt	Huggins	Southern Illinois	N
1979	UTA	3	1	Arvid	Kramer	Augustana (SD)	N
1979	UTA	2	1	Tico	Brown	Georgia Tech	N
1979	UTA	8	1	Keith	McDonald	Utah State	N
1979	WA1	4	22	Lamont	Reid	Oral Roberts	N
1979	WA1	8	19	Jo Jo	Walters	Manhattan	N
1979	WA1	5	20	Marshall	Ashford	Virginia Tech	N
1979	WA1	2	22	Joe	DeSantis	Fairfield	N
1979	WA1	3	2	Andrew	Parker	Iowa State	N
1979	WA1	3	22	Charles	Floyd	High Point	N
1979	WA1	6	20	Garcia	Hopkins	Morgan State	N
1979	WA1	9	18	Ray	Hooker	Murray State	N
1979	WA1	10	18	Steve	Martin	Georgetown	N

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