| Year | Draft | Round | Pick | Player | Pos | From | Notes | ROY | HOF | Allstar | Heismann |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 1 | Ralph Sampson | Virginia | ! | 1984 | ||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 2 | Steve Stipanovich | Missouri | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 3 | Rodney McCray | Louisville | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 4 | Byron Scott | Arizona State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 5 | Sidney Green | Nevada-Las Vegas | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 6 | Russell Cross | Purdue | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 7 | Thurl Bailey | North Carolina State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 8 | Antoine Carr | Wichita State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 9 | Dale Ellis | Tennessee | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 10 | Jeff Malone | Mississippi State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 11 | Derek Harper | Illinois | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 12 | Darrell Walker | Arkansas | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 13 | Ennis Whatley | Alabama | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 14 | Clyde Drexler | Houston | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 15 | Howard Carter | Louisiana State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 16 | Jon Sundvold | Missouri | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 17 | Leo Rautins | Syracuse | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 18 | Randy Breuer | Minnesota | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 19 | John Paxson | Notre Dame | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 20 | Roy Hinson | Rutgers | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 21 | Greg Kite | Brigham Young | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 22 | Randy Wittman | Indiana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 23 | Mitchell Wiggins | Florida State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 1 | 24 | Stewart Granger | Villanova | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 25 | Sidney Lowe | North Carolina State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 26 | Leroy Combs | Oklahoma State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 27 | John Garris | Boston College | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 28 | Rod Foster | UCLA | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 29 | Larry Micheaux | Houston | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 30 | Mark West | Old Dominion | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 31 | Glenn Rivers | Marquette | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 32 | Michael Britt | District of Columbia | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 33 | Dirk Minniefield | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 34 | Guy Williams | Washington State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 35 | Darrell Lockhart | Auburn | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 36 | Scooter McCray | Louisville | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 37 | David Russell | St. John's | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 38 | Chris McNealy | San Jose State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 39 | Granville Waiters | Ohio State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 40 | James Thomas | Indiana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 41 | Ted Kitchel | Indiana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 42 | Mike Davis | Alabama | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 43 | Pace Mannion | Utah | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 44 | Horace Owens | Rhode Island | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 45 | Paul Williams | Arizona State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 46 | Kevin Williams | St. John's | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 2 | 47 | Ken Lyons | North Texas State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 48 | Craig Ehlo | Washington State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 49 | Greg Jones | West Virginia | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 50 | Paul Thompson | Tulane | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 51 | Derek Whittenburg | North Carolina State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 52 | Winfred King | East Tennessee | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 53 | Michael Holton | UCLA | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 54 | Robert Hansen | Iowa | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 55 | Erich Santifer | Syracuse | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 56 | Larry Anderson | Nevada-Las Vegas | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 57 | Darren Daye | UCLA | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 58 | John Pinone | Villanova | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 59 | Bruce Kuczenski | Connecticut | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 60 | Steve Harriel | Washington State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 61 | David Little | Oklahoma | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 62 | Tom Piotrowski | La Salle | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 63 | Frank Burnell | Stetson | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 64 | Claude Riley | Texas A&M | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 65 | Billy Goodwin | St. John's | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 66 | Les Craft | Kansas State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 67 | Derrick Hord | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 68 | Craig Robinson | Virginia | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 69 | Orlando Phillips | Pepperdine | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 3 | 70 | Dan Ruland | James Madison | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 71 | Darrell Browder | Texas Christian | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 72 | Terry Fair | Georgia | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 73 | Dwight Jones | Cincinnati | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 74 | Kalpatrick Wells | Mississippi State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 75 | Ron Crevier | Boston College | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 76 | Doug Arnold | Texas Christian | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 77 | Pete Thibeaux | St. Mary's (CA) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 78 | Steve Bouchie | Indiana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 79 | Johnny Martin | NW Louisiana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 80 | Dan Gay | SW Louisiana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 81 | Harry Kelley | Texas Southern | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 82 | Mark Jones | St. Bonaventure | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 83 | York Gross | UC Santa Barbara | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 84 | Mike Jackson | Wyoming | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 85 | Tim Dunham | Chaminade | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 86 | Pete DeBisschop | Fairfield | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 87 | Barney Mines | Bradley | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 88 | Mark Nickens | American | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 89 | Sam Mosley | Nevada-Reno | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 90 | Brant Weidner | William & Mary | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 91 | Carlos Clark | Mississippi | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 92 | Terry Lewis | Mississippi State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 4 | 93 | Craig Robinson | Princeton | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 94 | Chuck Barnett | Oklahoma | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 95 | Roger Stieg | Mississippi | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 96 | Chris Logan | Holy Cross | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 97 | Manute Bol | None (Sudan) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 98 | Tim Andree | Notre Dame | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 99 | Greg Hines | Hampton Institute | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 100 | Mark Clark | Oklahoma | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 101 | Ken Austin | Rice | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 102 | Jim Lampley | Arkansas-Little Rock | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 103 | Robin Dixon | New Hampshire | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 104 | Charles Jones | Oklahoma | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 105 | Troy Mikell | East Tennessee | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 106 | Lorenza Andrews | Oklahoma State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 107 | James Braddock | North Carolina | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 108 | Gary Monroe | Wright State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 109 | Brad Watson | Washington | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 110 | Tyren Naulls | Texas A&M | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 111 | Mark Petteway | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 112 | Jeff Pehl | Richmond | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 113 | Rick Lamb | Illinois State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 114 | Bob Reitz | Stonehill | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 115 | Danny Dixon | Alabama A&M | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 5 | 116 | Mike Milligan | Tennessee State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 117 | Jim Stack | Northwestern | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 118 | Cliff Pruitt | Alabama-Birmingham | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 119 | Mel McLaughlin | Central Michigan | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 120 | Russell Todd | West Virginia | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 121 | Ernest Patterson | New Mexico State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 122 | Fred Gilliam | Clemson | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 123 | Tom Heywood | Weber State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 124 | Derek Perry | Michigan State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 125 | Billy Allen | Nevada-Reno | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 126 | Donald Carroll | St. Augustine's | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 127 | Tom Bethea | Richmond | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 128 | Tony Simms | Boston U | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 129 | Glenn Green | Murray State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 130 | Alvis Rogers | Wake Forest | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 131 | Derrick Pope | Montana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 132 | Tony Wilson | Western Kentucky | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 133 | Oscar Taylor | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 134 | Charles Hurt | Kentucky | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 135 | Edward Bona | Fordham | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 136 | Ricky Hooker | St. Mary's (TX) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 137 | Paul Atkins | Houston Baptist | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 138 | Mark Steele | Colorado State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 6 | 139 | Sedale Threatt | West Virginia Tech | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 140 | Brian Kellerman | Idaho | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 141 | Tony Brown | Indiana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 142 | John Columbo | John Carroll | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 143 | Dan Evans | Oregon State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 144 | Jacque Hill | USC | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 145 | Peter Williams | Utah | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 146 | Joe Kazanowski | Victoria (Canada) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 147 | Rob Gonzalez | Colorado | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 148 | Terrell Schlundt | Marquette | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 149 | Danny Womack | Winston-Salem | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 150 | Lex Drum | Alabama-Birmingham | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 151 | Desi Barimore | Fresno State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 152 | Dane Suttle | Pepperdine | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 153 | Maurice McDaniel | Catawba | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 154 | Paul Little | Penn | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 155 | Tony Gattis | Mercer | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 156 | Keith Bennett | Sacred Heart | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 157 | Anthony Hicks | Xavier (OH) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 158 | Keith Williams | Panhandle State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 159 | Fred Brown | Virginia Commonwealth | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 160 | Roy Jackson | Providence | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 161 | Ricky Mixon | Cal State-Fullerton | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 7 | 162 | Tony Bruin | Syracuse | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 163 | Jeff Bolding | Arkansas State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 164 | Ray McCallum | Ball State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 165 | Larry Tucker | Lewis (IL) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 166 | Mark Gannon | Iowa | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 167 | Terry Bradley | Chicago State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 168 | Michael McCombs | Santa Fe | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 169 | Doug Harris | Central Washington | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 170 | George Wenzel | Augustana | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 171 | Bill Sadler | Pepperdine | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 172 | Bernard Perry | Howard | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 173 | George Thomas | Georgia Tech | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 174 | Mike Lang | Penn State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 175 | Cliff Tribus | Davidson | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 176 | Preston Neumayr | Cal State-Davis | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 177 | Frank Smith | Arizona | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 178 | Ray Smith | Armstrong State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 179 | Joe Myers | Duquesne | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 180 | Brett Burkholder | DePaul | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 181 | Mike Mulquin | Villanova | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 182 | Norville Brown | Oklahoma Christian | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 183 | Trent Johnson | Pittsburgh | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 8 | 184 | Gordon Austin | American | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 185 | James Campbell | Oklahoma City | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 186 | Lynn Mitchem | Butler | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 187 | Joe Brown | Georgia State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 188 | David Maxwell | Fordham | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 189 | Ray Orange | Oklahoma Christian | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 190 | Greg Goorjiam | Loyola Marymount | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 191 | Ron Webb | Oklahoma Christian | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 192 | Marlow McLain | Eastern Michigan | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 193 | Sherrod Arnold | Chicago State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 194 | Ricky Moreland | Maryland-Baltimore | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 195 | Wil Kotchery | Livingston State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 196 | Charles Jones | Marshall | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 197 | Bernard Hill | Panhandle State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 198 | Bobby Van Noy | Catawba | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 199 | Phil Hopson | Idaho | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 200 | Tony Washington | Hampton Institute | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 201 | Kevin Black | Rutgers | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 202 | Bill Varner | Notre Dame | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 203 | Gary Gaspard | St. Mary's (TX) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 204 | Joe Dykstra | Western Illinois | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 205 | John Rice | Massachusetts-Boston | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 9 | 206 | Charles Fisher | James Madison | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 207 | Mark Smed | Augustana (SD) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 208 | Jon Hanley | Xavier (OH) | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 209 | Keith Smith | San Diego State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 210 | Tom Emma | Duke | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 211 | Odell Mosteller | Auburn | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 212 | Michael Zeno | Long Beach State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 213 | Ike Person | Michigan | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 214 | Clyde Corley | Florida International | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 215 | Isiah Singletary | St. Louis | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 216 | Ronnie Carr | Western Carolina | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 217 | Bernard Randolph | DePaul | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 218 | Cleveland McCrae | Catawba | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 219 | Aaron Haskins | Washington State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 220 | Russ Christianson | East Oregon State | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 221 | David Binion | North Carolina Central | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 222 | Rich Simkus | Princeton | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 223 | Bob Kelly | St. John's | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 224 | Bo Overton | Oklahoma | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 225 | Lamar Heard | Georgia | ||||||
| 1983 | 1983 | 10 | 226 | Andy Kupec | Bentley | ||||||
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.