| Year | Draft | Round | Pick | Player | Pos | From | To | Notes | ROY | HOF | Allstar | Heismann |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Don Dee | St. Mary of the Plains | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Bill Hosket | Ohio State | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Wayne Chapman | Western Kentucky | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Mike Butler | Memphis State | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Tom Boerwinkle | Tennessee | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Joe Allen | Bradley | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Warren Armstrong | Wichita | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Art Beatty | American University | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Mervin Jackson | Utah | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Tom Kondla | Minnesota | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 1 | 0 | Shaler Halimon | Utah State | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Mike Lewis | Duke | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Larry Newbold | Long Island | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Willie Davis | North Texas State | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Richard Johnson | Grambling | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Walt Piatkowski | Bowling Green | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Dick Cunningham | Murray State | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Jim Eakins | Brigham Young | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Don Chaney | Houston | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Ed Johnson | Tennessee State | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Ron Nelson | New Mexico | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 2 | 0 | Rich Jones | Memphis | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Don May | Dayton | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Dave Newmark | Columbia | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Al Dixon | Bowling Green | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Mark LaMoreaux | Lenoir-Rhyne | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Bill Hewitt | Southern California | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Rodney Knowles | Davidson | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Skip Harlicka | South Carolina | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | John Godfrey | Abilene Christian | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Larry Miller | North Carolina | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Don Sidle | Oklahoma | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 3 | 0 | Bob Lewis | North Carolina State | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Bob Quick | Xavier | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Nick Pino | Kansas State | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Fred Foster | Miami (OH) | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Charles Paulk | Northeast Oklahoma | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Hal Booker | Cheyney (PA) | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Don Smith | Iowa State | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Bob Kauffman | Guilford | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Elvin Hayes | Houston | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | George Stone | Marshall | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | Dan Sparks | Weber State | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 4 | 0 | John Smith | Southern Colorado State | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Phil Wagner | Georgia Tech | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Sam Williams | Iowa | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Westley Unseld | Louisville | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Ron Williams | West Virginia | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Harry Hollines | Denver | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Steve Adelman | Boston College | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Stuart Lantz | Nebraska | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Aaron Sellers | Jackson State | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Mike Warren | UCLA | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Dallas Thornton | Kentucky Wesleyan | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 5 | 0 | Jo Jo White | Kansas | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Dave Benedict | Central Washington | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Roger Bohnenstiel | Kansas | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Joe Gallagher | Pembroke | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Charles Alford | Eastern Carolina | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Charley Parks | Idaho State | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Eddie Biedenbach | North Carolina State | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Henry Logan | Western Carolina | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Martin Baietti | Manhattan | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Carl Fuller | Bethune-Cookman | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Ken Barnett | Delaware | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 6 | 0 | Wally Anderzunas | Creighton | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Ron Boone | Idaho State | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Rudy Bogad | St. John's | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Clarence Brookins | Temple | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Joe Kennedy | Duke | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Ted Campbell | North Carolina A&T | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Vernon Payne | Indiana | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Ron Gruziak | Duquesne | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Garfield Smith | Eastern Kentucky | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Rich Dumas | Northeast Oklahoma | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Ed Leggett | Rocky Mountain | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 7 | 0 | Joe Franklin | Wisconsin | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Glen Combs | Virginia Tech | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Jerry Newsom | Indiana State | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | John Haarlow | Princeton | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Manny Leaks | Niagara | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Lee Davis | North Carolina Central | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Willie Rogers | Oklahoma | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Pete ODea | St. Peter's | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Jim McKean | Washington State | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Calvin Martin | Texas Southern | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Lou Shepherd | Missouri State | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 8 | 0 | Darryl Jones | Benedictine (KS) | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | CA Core | Southeastern Louisiana | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Rich Niemann | St. Louis | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Keith Hochstein | Holy Cross | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Gene Moore | St. Louis | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Dave Williams | Mississippi State | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Glynn Saulters | Northeast Louisiana | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Bill Soens | Miami (FL) | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Bud Ogden | Santa Clara | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Mike Nordholz | Alabama | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Bob Warren | Vanderbilt | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 9 | 0 | Al Knott | Cedarville (OH) | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Roy Manning | Lane College | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Jack Thompson | South Carolina | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Jeff Ockel | Utah | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Greg Smith | Western Kentucky | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Jasper Wilson | Southern University | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Ken Hall | Westminster (Utah) | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Bill Butler | St. Bonaventure | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Rusty Parker | Miami (FL) | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Dan Smith | Howard - Payne | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Eldridge Webb | Tulsa | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 10 | 0 | Jerry Waugh | Northern Iowa | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Billy Arnold | Texas | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Greg Cisson | Rider | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Willie Betts | Bradley | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Booker Brown | Middle Tennessee | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Melvin Jones | Albany (GA) State | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | John Chamberlain | C. W. Post | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Loy Peterson | Oregon State | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Sam Butler | Southern University | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Rick Adelman | Loyola Marymount | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 11 | 0 | Lyndall Conway | Albuquerque | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Gene Jones | Missouri | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Bob Hooper | Dayton | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Greg Morris | Cornell | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Al Hairston | Bowling Green | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Julius Keye | Alcorn State | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Anthony Koski | Providence | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | John Trapp | Nevada Southern | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Warren Chapman | Duke | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Brian Brunkhorst | Marquette | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 12 | 0 | Jim Barza | Detroit Tech | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Gene Littles | High Point (NC) | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Harry Joyner | Indiana | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Billy Jones | Fairfield | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Thad Jaracz | Kentucky | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Mickey Smith | Memphis State | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Bill Langheld | Fordham | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Russ Critchfield | California | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Bill Gaines | East Texas State | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Ben Foster | Pasadena | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 13 | 0 | Willie Iverson | Central Michigan | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Mickey McCarty | Texas Christian | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Tom Niemier | Evansville | Indiana | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Bob Redd | Marshall | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Reggie Lacefield | Western Michigan | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Oscar Smith | Elizabeth City (NC) | Denver | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Art Stephenson | Rhode Island | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Hal Grant | Pepperdine | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Jim Jones | Beloit | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Phil Horns | Texas-EI Paso | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 14 | 0 | Terry Porter | St. Cloud (MN) | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 15 | 0 | Calvin Pettit | Central Missouri | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 15 | 0 | Bill Tindall | Massacusetts | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 15 | 0 | Bob Zoretich | DePaul | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 15 | 0 | Harry Laurie | St. Peter's | New York | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 15 | 0 | Art Harris | Stanford | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 15 | 0 | Frank Standard | South Carolina | Houston | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 15 | 0 | Lloyd Higgins | Point Loma Nazarene | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 15 | 0 | Jim Sterkin | Detroit | Floridians | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 16 | 0 | Willie Worsley | Texas-El Paso | Dallas | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 16 | 0 | Kermit Meystedt | Southeast Missouri | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 16 | 0 | Bryan Phillips | Valdosta | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 16 | 0 | Mike LaRoche | Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 17 | 0 | John Snipes | Elizabeth City (NC) | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 17 | 0 | Tony Sapit | Carroll (MT) | Oakland | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 17 | 0 | Cary Smith | California State-Los Angeles | Los Angeles | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 18 | 0 | Butch Kaufman | Western Kentucky | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1968 | 1968 | 19 | 0 | Bo Wyenandt | Vanderbilt | Kentucky | ||||||
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The ABA was formed to compete with the well-established NBA. The new league allowed potential owners to obtain a professional team much more affordably than the NBA was offering for an expansion team.
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was founded in 1967 by Dennis Murphy, former mayor of Buena Park, California, and Gary Davidson, an attorney from Orange County, California. George Mikan, a former National Basketball Association star best known for his career with the Minneapolis Lakers, was named as the league's first commissioner, saying that the ABA would avoid raiding the players from the NBA as the upstart league as it wanted to avoid legal issues relating to the reserve clause and hoped to avoid creating a bidding war for talent that would make player salaries unaffordable. Despite that, The New York Times reported that tentative offers had been made to Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain, who was offered a contract that would pay him $50,000 (half of what he was making with the Philadelphia 76ers) along with a 20% share of the team that started play as the New Jersey Americans.
By April 1967, the league announced that they would begin play for the 1967–68 season with 11 teams in two divisions. The Eastern Division would include teams representing Indianapolis, Indiana, Louisville, Kentucky, New York City, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, while the Western division would be made up of Anaheim, California, Dallas, Denver, Houston, New Orleans and Oakland. Each team owner made a commitment that they would have the resources to run for at least three years on annual budgets of $500,000 and would be able to absorb any financial losses during that period.
With the first pick in the league's inaugural draft in April 1967, Indianapolis chose Jimmy Walker, who had been a collegiate All-American at Providence College, where his 30.4 points per game led all major college players. Walker was also the first pick in the 1967 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons and ended up playing his entire career in the NBA. Among its picks, New Orleans selected pole vaulter Bob Seagren "because he is a great athlete and we think he can play pro basketball", despite the fact that he had never played basketball at the college level. The 11 teams selected a total of 130 players.
In June 1967, NBA leading scorer Rick Barry left the San Francisco Warriors to sign with Oakland, making him the seventh player and the first superstar to defect to the upstart league. The landmark three-year contract offer from singer and team owner Pat Boone was estimated to be worth $500,000 and would make him one of basketball's highest-paid players. The agreement included 15 percent ownership in the franchise, with led Barry to remark, "The offer Oakland made me was one I simply couldn't turn down." In August, however, a superior court judge upheld the reserve clause in Barry's contract and ruled that he was obligated to play for the Warriors or sit out for the entire season. Barry ultimately chose to sit out for the year, rather than play for San Francisco.
Mikan unveiled the league's distinctive red, white and blue official ball in August, calling it "a patriotic ball" and saying that it would be more appealing visually on television.
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