1979 NBA Draft - 25 June 1979 ROUND 1 / 1979 NBA DRAFT See also: 1978 in sports, other events of 1979, 1980 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: NASCAR Championship - Richard Petty Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 CART Racing (replaced USAC): Rick Mears won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears Formula One... The National Basketball Association draft is an annual U.S. event in which the National Basketball Associations (NBA) thirty teams can select young players who wish to join the league. ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

1. LAL Magic Johnson, Michigan State 2. CHI Dave Greenwood, UCLA 3. NYK Bill Cartwright, San Francisco 4. DET Greg Kelser, Michigan State 5. MIL Sidney Moncrief, Arkansas 6. SEA James Bailey, Rutgers 7. SEA Vinnie Johnson, Baylor 8. NJN Calvin Natt, Northeast Louisiana 9. NYK Larry Demic, Arizona 10. DET Roy Hamilton, UCLA 11. NJN Cliff Robinson, Southern California 12. POR Jim Paxson, Dayton 13. IND Dudley Bradley, North Carolina 14. LAL Brad Holland, UCLA 15. DET Phil Hubbard, Michigan 16. PHI Jim Spanarkel, Duke 17. HOU Lee Johnson, East Texas State 18. KCK Reggie King, Alabama 19. SAS Wiley Peck, Mississippi State 20. UTA Larry Knight, Loyola (IL) 21. NYK Sly Williams, Rhode Island 22. PHO Kyle Macy, Kentucky

ROUND 2 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Tico Brown, Georgia Tech 2. PHO Johnny High, Nevada-Reno 3. LAL Ollie Mack, East Carolina 4. CLE Bruce Flowers, Notre Dame 5. NYK Reggie Carter, Saint John's (NY) 6. GSW Danny Salisbury, Pan American 7. DET Tony Price, Penn 8. DEN Gary Garland, DePaul 9. MIL Edgar Jones, Nevada-Reno 10. IND Tony Zeno, Arizona State 11. CHI Lawrence Butler, Idaho State 12. NYK Kim Goetz, San Diego State 13. ATL James Bradley, Memphis State 14. PHI Clint Richardson, Seattle 15. PHI Bernard Toone, Marquette 16. ATL Larry Wilson, Nicholls State 17. LAL Victor King, Louisiana Tech 18. POR Andrew Fields, Cheyney State 19. LAL Mark Young, Fairfield 20. HOU Paul Mokeski, Kansas 21. SEA Johnny Moore, Texas 22. WSB Joe DeSantis, Fairfield

ROUND 3 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Arvid Kramer, Augustana (SD) 2. WSB Andrew Parker, Iowa State 3. CHI Calvin Garrett, Oral Roberts 4. DET Terry Duerod, Detroit 5. CHI Cedrick Hordges, South Carolina 6. NYK Geoff Huston, Texas Tech 7. NJN John Gerdy, Davidson 8. MIL Larry Gibson, Maryland 9. BOS Wayne Kreklow, Drake 10. GSW Lynbert Johnson, Wichita State 11. SDC Tom Channel, Boston University 12. POR Mickey Fox, Canada 13. ATL Don March, Franklin & Marshall 14. PHI Earl Cureton, Detroit 15. HOU Ricardo Brown, Pepperdine 16. LAL Walter Daniels, Georgia 17. BOS Ernesto Malcolm, Briarcliff 18. KCK Terry Crosby, Tennessee 19. SAS Sylvester Norris, Jackson State 20. PHO Al Green, Louisiana State 21. CLE Bill Laimbeer, Notre Dame 22. WSB Charles Floyd, High Point

ROUND 4 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Greg Deane, Utah 2. BOS Nick Galis, Seton Hall 3. MIL Eugene Robinson, Northeast Louisiana 4. CLE Rick Swing, Citadel 5. NYK Larry Rogers, Southeast Missouri State 6. CHI George Maynor, East Carolina 7. SEA James Donaldson, Washington State 8. IND Don Newman, Idaho 9. GSW Ron Ripley, Wisconsin-Green Bay 10. HOU Sammy Drummer, Georgia Tech 11. SDC Lionel Garrett, Southern 12. POR Daryll Robinson, Appalachian State 13. LAL Ray White, Mississippi State 14. HOU Lionel Green, Louisiana State 15. LAL Ricky Reed, Temple 16. GSW Jerry Sichting, Purdue 17. PHI Mike Niles, California-Fullerton 18. SAS Al Daniel, Furman 19. KCK John McCullough, Oklahoma 20. PHO Malcolm Cesare, Florida 21. SEA Richie Allen, California-Dominguez Hills 22. WSB Lamont Reid, Oral Roberts

ROUND 5 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Perry Wolfe, Stanford 2. BOS Jimmy Allen, New Haven 3. CLE Matt Simpkins, Georgia Southern 4. DET Flintie Ray Williams, Nevada-Las Vegas 5. CHI Larry Washington, Drury 6. NYK Johnny Green, California-Riverside 7. NJN Joe Abramaitis, Connecticut 8. GSW George Lett, Centenary 9. MIL Jim Tillman, Eastern Kentucky 10. IND Billy Reid, San Francisco 11. SDC Greg Joyner, Middle Tennessee State 12. POR Matt White, Penn 13. ATL Tiny Pinder, North Carolina State 14. DEN Larry Williams, Louisville 15. PHI Carl McPipe, Nebraska 16. HOU Allen Leavell, Oklahoma City 17. KCK Curtis Watkins, DePaul 18. SAS Steve Schall, Arkansas 19. PHO Mark Eaton, Cypress JC 20. WSB Marshall Ashford, Virginia Tech

ROUND 6 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Ernie Cobb, Boston University 2. BOS Marvin Delph, Arkansas 3. DET Truman Clayton, Kentucky 4. CLE Joe Manning, North Texas State 5. NYK Phil Abney, New Mexico 6. CHI Steve Smith, Southern California 7. NJN Tony Smith, Nevada-Las Vegas 8. MIL Derrick Mayes, Illinois State 9. IND Greg Guye, Stetson 10. GSW Jim Mitchem, DePaul 11. SDC Bob Bender, Duke 12. POR Ray Ellis, Pepperdine 13. ATL Dwight Williams, Gardner-Webb 14. DEN Odell Ball, Marquette 15. PHI Dan Hartshorne, Oregon 16. HOU Collie Davis, Southern 17. SAS Terry Knight, Pittsburgh 18. KCK Bob Roma, Princeton 19. PHO Dale Shackelford, Syracuse 20. WSB Garcia Hopkins, Morgan State

ROUND 7 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Paul Poe, Louisiana 2. BOS Steve Castellan, Virginia 3. CLE Steve Skaggs, Ohio 4. DET Ken Jones, Saint Mary's (CA) 5. CHI Mike Eversley, Chicago State 6. NYK Marc Coleman, Seton Hall 7. NJN Jim Strickland, South Carolina 8. IND Dirk Ewing, Stetson 9. GSW Ren Watson, Virginia Commonwealth 10. MIL Stan Ray, California-Fullerton 11. SDC Jene Grey, LeMoyne 12. POR Jeff Tropf, Central Michigan 13. ATL Tim Waterman, Saint Bonaventure 14. PHI Bobby Willis, Penn 15. HOU Rich Valavicius, Auburn 16. DEN John Johnson, Creighton 17. KCK Nick Daniels, Xavier 18. SAS Tyrone Branyan, Texas 19. PHO Ollie Matson, Pepperdine

ROUND 8 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Keith McDonald, Utah State 2. BOS Glenn Sudhop, North Carolina State 3. DET Rodney Lee, Memphis State 4. CLE Mark Haymore, Massachusetts 5. NYK Billy Tucker, Tennessee State 6. CHI Tony Warren, North Carolina State 7. NJN Henry Hollingsworth, Hofstra 8. GSW Mario Butler, Briarcliff 9. MIL Larry Spicer, Alabama-Birmingham 10. IND Brian Magid, George Washington 11. SDC Renaldo Lawrence, Appalachian State 12. POR Willie Pounds, Chaminade 13. ATL John Goedeke, Maryland-Baltimore County 14. HOU Delbert Watson, East Tennessee State 15. DEN Matt Teahan, Denver 16. PHI Rick Raivio, Portland 17. KCK Tony Vann, Alabama-Huntsville 18. PHO Charles Jones, Albany State (GA) 19. WSB Jo Jo Walters, Manhattan

ROUND 9 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Milt Huggins, Southern Illinois 2. BOS Kevin Sinnett, Navy 3. CLE Tim Joyce, Ohio 4. DET Val Bracey, Central Michigan 5. CHI James Jackson, Minnesota 6. NYK Brett Wyatt, Jersey City State 7. NJN Ricky Free, Columbia 8. MIL Roger Lapham, Maine 9. GSW Gene Ransom, California 10. SDC Mike Dodd, San Diego State 11. POR Stan Eckwood, Harding (AR) 12. ATL Cedric Oliver, Hamilton 13. DEN Emmett Lewis, Colorado 14. PHI Coby Leavitt, Utah 15. KCK Gary Wilson, Southern Illinois 16. SAS Eddie McLeod, Nevada-Las Vegas 17. PHO Hosea Champine, Robert Morris 18. WSB Ray Hooker, Murray State

ROUND 10 / 1979 NBA DRAFT

1. UTA Paul Dawkins, Northern Illinois 2. BOS Alton Byrd, Columbia 3. DET Willie Polk, Grand Canyon 4. CLE Terry Peavy, Point Park 5. NYK Gordon Thomas, Saint John's (NY) 6. CHI Marvin Thoms, UCLA 7. NJN Eric Fleisher, Tulane 8. GSW Kevin Heenan, California-Fullerton 9. MIL Chris Fahrbach, North Dakota 10. SDC Greg Hunter, Loyola Marymount 11. POR Kelvin Small, Oregon 12. ATL Chad Nelson, Drake 13. CHI Cortez Collins, Indiana State-Evansville 14. PHI Keith McCord, Alabama-Birmingham 15. SAS Glen Fine, Harvard 16. KCK Russell Saunders, New Mexico 17. PHO Korky Nelson, Santa Clara 18. WSB Steve Martin, Georgetown

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