1982_NBA_draft

1982 NBA draft

1982 NBA draft

Basketball player selection

The 1982 NBA draft took place on June 29, 1982, at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Brent Musburger reported for CBS in the days leading up to the draft that the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks were working on a wider-ranging deal that would have sent Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to New York, Bill Cartwright to the Utah Jazz, and either the #1 or #2 pick from Utah to Los Angeles (which was guaranteed one of those picks anyway due to a 1980 trade with Cleveland), with the Lakers then planning to select both Ralph Sampson and James Worthy. When Sampson decided to forgo entering the draft and to return for another season at the University of Virginia, the deal fell apart and the Lakers picked Worthy with the #1 overall choice. [citation needed]

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^ Denotes player who has been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
* Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game and All-NBA Team
+ Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game
# Denotes player who has never appeared in an NBA regular season or playoff game
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James Worthy was selected first overall by the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Dominique Wilkins was selected third overall by the Utah Jazz (traded to Atlanta Hawks).
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Clark Kellogg was selected eighth overall by the Indiana Pacers.
Fat Lever was selected eleventh overall by the Portland Trail Blazers.
Corny Thompson was selected 50th overall by the Dallas Mavericks.
Mark Eaton was selected 72nd overall by the Utah Jazz.
Tony Brown was selected 82nd overall by the New Jersey Nets.
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Early entrants

College underclassmen

The following college basketball players successfully applied for early draft entrance.[1]

See also

References

General
  • "Complete First Round Results 1980–89". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Archived from the original on March 21, 2010. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  • "1982 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
  • "1982–1986 NBA Drafts". The Association for Professional Basketball Research. Archived from the original on November 16, 2010. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
Specific
  1. [1]
    "1982 Underclassmen". The Draft Review. August 4, 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
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