| Year | Draft | Round | Pick | Player | Pos | From | Notes | ROY | HOF | Allstar | Heismann |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 1958 | 1 | 1 | Elgin Baylor | Seattle | ! | 1959 | ||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 1 | 2 | Archie Dees | Indiana | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 1 | 3 | Mike Farmer | San Francisco | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 1 | 4 | Pete Brennan | North Carolina | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 1 | 5 | Guy Rodgers | Temple | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 1 | 6 | Connie Dierking | Cincinnati | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 1 | 7 | Dave Gambee | Oregon State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 1 | 8 | Ben Swain | Texas Southern | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 2 | 9 | Steve Hamilton | Morehead State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 2 | 10 | Vern Hatton | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 2 | 11 | Barney Cable | Bradley | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 2 | 12 | Joe Quigg | North Carolina | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 2 | 13 | Lamar Sharrar | West Virginia | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 2 | 14 | Hal Greer | Marshall | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 2 | 15 | Hub Reed | Oklahoma City | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 2 | 16 | Jimmy Smith | Steubenville | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 3 | 17 | Boo Ellis | Niagara | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 3 | 18 | Arlen Bockhorn | Dayton | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 3 | 19 | Roy DeWitz | Kansas State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 3 | 20 | John Lee | Yale | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 3 | 21 | Frank Howard | Ohio State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 3 | 22 | John Nacincik | Maryland | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 3 | 23 | Wayne Embry | Miami (OH) | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 3 | 24 | Jim Cunningham | Fordham | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 4 | 25 | George Kline | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 4 | 26 | Phil Murrell | Drake | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 4 | 27 | Ralph Croswaite | Western Kentucky | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 4 | 28 | John Cox | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 4 | 29 | Temple Tucker | Rice | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 4 | 30 | Tommy Kearns | North Carolina | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 4 | 31 | Julius Peques | Pittsburgh | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 4 | 32 | Don Flora | Washington & Lee | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 5 | 33 | Quitman Sullins | Murray State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 5 | 34 | Jim Fulmer | Alabama | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 5 | 35 | Hank Morano | St. Peter's | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 5 | 36 | Don Lane | Dayton | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 5 | 37 | Don Ohl | Illinois | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 5 | 38 | Fred Grim | Arkansas | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 5 | 39 | Rick Herrsher | Southern Methodist | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 5 | 40 | Gene Brown | San Francisco | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 41 | Al Inniss | St. Francis (NY) | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 42 | Jim McClennan | St. Francis (PA) | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 43 | Shellie McMillon | Bradley | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 44 | Joe King | Oklahoma | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 45 | Bucky Allen | Duke | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 46 | Jack Mimitz | St. Louis | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 47 | John Crawford | Iowa State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 6 | 48 | Dave Keleher | Morehead State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 7 | 49 | Jim Bond | Pasadena | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 7 | 50 | Wayne Stevens | Cincinnati | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 7 | 51 | Ed Blair | Western Michigan | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 7 | 52 | Owen Lawson | Western Kentucky | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 7 | 53 | Jay Norman | Temple | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 7 | 54 | Pete Tillotson | Michigan | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 7 | 55 | Ken Sidle | Ohio State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 7 | 56 | Rudy Fenderson | Brandeis | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 8 | 57 | Ed Brinkley | Clemson | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 8 | 58 | Bob Mantz | Lafayette | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 8 | 59 | Jack Quiggle | Michigan State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 8 | 60 | Milt Kane | Utah | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 8 | 61 | Tom Brennan | Villanova | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 8 | 62 | Ruel Tucker | Rockhurst | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 8 | 63 | Bruno Boin | Washington | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 9 | 64 | Joe Hobbs | Florida | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 9 | 65 | Larry Staverman | Villa Madonna | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 9 | 66 | Harry Marske | North Dakota State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 9 | 67 | John McCarthy | Notre Dame | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 9 | 68 | Nick Davis | Maryland | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 9 | 69 | Tink Van Patton | Temple | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 10 | 70 | Shorty Patterson | Gustavus Adolphus | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 10 | 71 | Jack Parr | Kansas State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 10 | 72 | Pete Gaudin | Loyola (LA) | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 10 | 73 | Larry Hedden | Michigan State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 10 | 74 | James Purcell | Coe | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 11 | 75 | Hal Duffy | Oregon | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 11 | 76 | Frank Tartaton | Xavier (OH) | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 11 | 77 | Herb Merritt | Tennessee Tech | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 11 | 78 | Don Klein | Rockhurst | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 12 | 79 | Gary Simmons | Idaho | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 12 | 80 | Don Medsker | Iowa State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 12 | 81 | Jim Dew | Alabama State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 12 | 82 | Joe Buckhalter | Tennessee State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 13 | 83 | Jerry Alcom | Fresno State | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 13 | 84 | Jerry DuPont | Louisville | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 14 | 85 | Jim Newcomb | Duke | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 15 | 86 | Adrian Smith | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 16 | 87 | Jack McCarthy | Dayton | ||||||
| 1958 | 1958 | 17 | 88 | John Powell | Miami (OH) | ||||||
RetroSeasons
Reliving Sports History … One Season at a Time
what a year. the competitiveness of the ABL really brought the NBA out of its duldrums.