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1983 NBA draft
General information
Date(s)	June 28, 1983
Location	Madison Square Garden in New York City
Network(s) (US)	USA Network
First selection	Ralph Sampson, Houston Rockets
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The 1983 NBA draft took place on June 28, 1983 in New York City. A total of 226 players were selected over 10 rounds by the league's 23 teams. At least four players from the 1983 draft now serve as coaches. One serves at a major-college program—Craig Robinson (who never played in the NBA) at Oregon State—and three in the NBA—Doc Rivers for the Los Angeles Clippers, Randy Wittman for the Washington Wizards, and Byron Scott for the Los Angeles Lakers . While Scott won the Coach of the Year award in 2008, Rivers won an NBA Championship with the Celtics on that same year (it could be also noted that Rivers won that award prior to Scott, in 2000, while he was still coaching the Orlando Magic). Robinson, who led the Beavers to the 2009 College Basketball Invitational title, has an additional claim to fame as the older brother of current First Lady Michelle Obama. Sidney Lowe coached at North Carolina State from 2006 to 2011.

Manute Bol was selected in the 5th round by the Clippers, but the NBA rejected the pick on technicalities. Manute had never filed draft paperwork, and his passport listed him at 19 (at the time, 19 years was too young to be drafted).

Draft

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Ralph Sampson was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets.

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Byron Scott was selected fourth overall by the San Diego Clippers.

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Clyde Drexler was selected fourteenth overall by the Portland Trail Blazers.

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Doc Rivers was selected thirty-first overall by the Atlanta Hawks.

PG

Point guard

SG

Shooting guard

SF

Small forward

PF

Power forward

C

Center

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Round	Pick	Player	Pos.	Nationality	Team	School/club team
1	1	Sampson, RalphRalph Sampson^	C	United States	Houston Rockets	Virginia (Sr.)
1	2	Stipanovich, SteveSteve Stipanovich	C	United States	Indiana Pacers	Missouri (Sr.)
1	3	McCray, RodneyRodney McCray	SF	United States	Houston Rockets (from Cleveland via Philadelphia)	Louisville (Sr.)
1	4	Scott, ByronByron Scott	SG	United States	San Diego Clippers	Arizona State (Jr.)
1	5	Green, SidneySidney Green	PF	United States	Chicago Bulls	UNLV (Sr.)
1	6	Cross, RussellRussell Cross	C	United States	Golden State Warriors	Purdue (Jr.)
1	7	Bailey, ThurlThurl Bailey	SF	United States	Utah Jazz	NC State (Sr.)
1	8	Carr, AntoineAntoine Carr	PF	United States	Detroit Pistons	Wichita State (Sr.)
1	9	Ellis, DaleDale Ellis*	SG	United States	Dallas Mavericks	Tennessee (Sr.)
1	10	Malone, JeffJeff Malone+	SG	United States	Washington Bullets	Mississippi State (Sr.)
1	11	Harper, DerekDerek Harper	PG/SG	United States	Dallas Mavericks (from Atlanta via Cleveland)	Illinois (Jr.)
1	12	Walker, DarrellDarrell Walker	SG	United States	New York Knicks	Arkansas (Sr.)
1	13	Whatley, EnnisEnnis Whatley	PG	United States	Kansas City Kings	Alabama (So.)
1	14	Drexler, ClydeClyde Drexler^	SG	United States	Portland Trail Blazers	Houston (Jr.)
1	15	Carter, HowardHoward Carter	SG	United States	Denver Nuggets	LSU (Sr.)
1	16	Sundvold, JonJon Sundvold	PG	United States	Seattle SuperSonics	Missouri (Sr.)
1	17	Rautins, LeoLeo Rautins	SF	Canada	Philadelphia 76ers (from New Jersey)	Syracuse (Sr.)
1	18	Breuer, RandyRandy Breuer	C	United States	Milwaukee Bucks	Minnesota (Sr.)
1	19	Paxson, JohnJohn Paxson	PG	United States	San Antonio Spurs	Notre Dame (Sr.)
1	20	Hinson, RoyRoy Hinson	C	United States	Cleveland Cavaliers (from Phoenix)	Rutgers (Sr.)
1	21	Kite, GregGreg Kite	C	United States	Boston Celtics	BYU (Sr.)
1	22	Wittman, RandyRandy Wittman	SG	United States	Washington Bullets (from Los Angeles)	Indiana (Sr.)
1	23	Wiggins, MitchellMitchell Wiggins	SG	United States	Indiana Pacers (from Philadelphia)	Florida State (Sr.)
1	24	Granger, StewartStewart Granger	PG	Canada	Cleveland Cavaliers *	Villanova (Sr.)
2	25	Lowe, SidneySidney Lowe	PG	United States	Chicago Bulls	NC State (Sr.)
2	26	Combs, LeroyLeroy Combs	SF	United States	Indiana Pacers	Oklahoma State (Sr.)
2	27	Garris, JohnJohn Garris	PF	United States	Cleveland Cavaliers	Boston College (Sr.)
2	28	Foster, RodRod Foster	PG	United States	Phoenix Suns	UCLA (Sr.)
2	29	Micheaux, LarryLarry Micheaux	PF	United States	Chicago Bulls	Houston (Sr.)
2	30	West, MarkMark West	C	United States	Dallas Mavericks	Old Dominion (Sr.)
2	31	Rivers, DocDoc Rivers+	PG	United States	Atlanta Hawks	Marquette (Jr.)
2	32	Britt, MichaelMichael Britt#	SF	United States	Washington Bullets	UDC (Sr.)
2	33	Minniefield, DirkDirk Minniefield	PG	United States	Dallas Mavericks	Kentucky (Sr.)
2	34	Williams, GuyGuy Williams	F	United States	Washington Bullets	Washington State (Sr.)
2	35	Lockhart, DarrellDarrell Lockhart	C	United States	San Antonio Spurs	Auburn (Sr.)
2	36	McCray, ScooterScooter McCray	PF	United States	Seattle SuperSonics	Louisville (Sr.)
2	37	Russell, DavidDavid Russell#	SF	United States	Denver Nuggets	St. John's (Sr.)
2	38	McNealy, ChrisChris McNealy	PF	United States	Kansas City Kings	San Jose State (Sr.)
2	39	Waiters, GranvilleGranville Waiters	C	United States	Portland Trail Blazers	Ohio State (Sr.)
2	40	Thomas, JimJim Thomas	SG	United States	Indiana Pacers	Indiana (Sr.)
2	41	Kitchel, TedTed Kitchel#	SF	United States	Milwaukee Bucks	Indiana (Sr.)
2	42	Davis, MikeMike Davis#	SG	United States	Milwaukee Bucks	Alabama (Sr.)
2	43	Mannion, PacePace Mannion	SF	United States	Golden State Warriors	Utah (Sr.)
2	44	Owens, HoraceHorace Owens#	SG	United States	New Jersey Nets	Rhode Island (Sr.)
2	45	Williams, PaulPaul Williams#	SF	United States	Phoenix Suns	Arizona State (Sr.)
2	46	Williams, KevinKevin Williams	PG	United States	San Antonio Spurs	St. John's (Sr.)
2	47	Lyons, KennethKenneth Lyons#	PF	United States	Philadelphia 76ers	North Texas State (Sr.)

* compensation for draft choices traded away by Ted Stepien

Notable post-second round picks

These picks have played at least one game in the NBA but were not selected in the first or second rounds.

Round	Pick	Player	Pos.	Nationality	Team	School/club team
3	48	Ehlo, CraigCraig Ehlo	SG	United States	Houston Rockets	Washington State (Sr.)
3	50	Thompson, PaulPaul Thompson	SF	United States	Cleveland Cavaliers	Tulane (Sr.)
3	53	Holton, MikeMike Holton	SG	United States	Golden State Warriors	UCLA (Sr.)
3	54	Hansen, BobBob Hansen	SG	United States	Utah Jazz	Iowa (Sr.)
3	57	Daye, DarrenDarren Daye	SF	United States	Washington Bullets	UCLA (Sr.)
3	58	Pinone, JohnJohn Pinone	SF	United States	Atlanta Hawks	Villanova (Sr.)
3	59	Kuczenski, BruceBruce Kuczenski	PF	United States	New Jersey Nets	Connecticut (Sr.)
3	62	Piotrowski, TomTom Piotrowski	C	United States	Portland Trail Blazers	La Salle (Sr.)
4	75	Crevier, RonRon Crevier	C	Canada	Chicago Bulls	Boston College (Sr.)
4	77	Thibeaux, PeterPeter Thibeaux	SF	United States	Golden State Warriors	Saint Mary's (Sr.)
4	82	Jones, MarkMark Jones	PG	United States	New York Knicks	St. Bonaventure (Sr.)
4	90	Weidner, BrantBrant Weidner	PF	United States	San Antonio Spurs	William & Mary (Sr.)
4	91	Clark, CarlosCarlos Clark	SG	United States	Boston Celtics	Ole Miss (Sr.)
5	97	Bol, ManuteManute Bol	C	Sudan	San Diego Clippers (Pick voided on technicalities)	Bridgeport (Sr.)
5	101	Austin, KenKen Austin	PF	United States	Detroit Pistons	Rice (Sr.)
5	102	Lampley, JimJim Lampley	C	United States	Dallas Mavericks	Arkansas–Little Rock (Sr.)
6	139	Threatt, SedaleSedale Threatt	SG	United States	Philadelphia 76ers	West Virginia Tech (Sr.)
7	152	Suttle, DaneDane Suttle	SG	United States	Kansas City Kings	Pepperdine (Sr.)

References

General

• "Complete First Round Results 1980-89". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Retrieved December 11, 2010. 
• "1983 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 11, 2010. 
• "1982–1986 NBA Drafts". The Association for Professional Basketball Research. Archived from the original on 16 November 2010. Retrieved December 11, 2010. 

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Specific

External links

• NBA.com
• NBA.com: NBA Draft History