1974 NBA expansion draft
{{Short description|Player selection draft}}
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{{Infobox sports draft
| name = 1974 NBA expansion draft
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| sport = Basketball
| date = May 20, 1974
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| league = NBA
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| prev = 1970
| next = 1980
| expansion_teams = New Orleans Jazz
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The 1974 NBA expansion draft was the sixth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on May 20, 1974, so that the newly founded New Orleans Jazz could acquire players for the upcoming 1974–75 season. New Orleans had been awarded the expansion team on March 7, 1974.{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/history/this_date_march.html|title=This Date in History–March|work=NBA.com|publisher=Turner Sports Interactive, Inc|access-date=April 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100321143926/http://www.nba.com/history/this_date_march.html|archive-date=21 March 2010|url-status=dead}} The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City in 1979 and are currently known as the Utah Jazz.{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/jazz/history/00400490.html|title=Utah Jazz History|access-date=April 9, 2010|work=NBA.com/Jazz|publisher=Turner Sports Interactive, Inc| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100405073728/http://www.nba.com/jazz/history/00400490.html| archive-date= 5 April 2010 | url-status= live}} In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league. Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected. In this draft, each of the seventeen other NBA teams had protected seven players from their roster and the Jazz selected seventeen unprotected players, one from each team.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pXssAAAAIBAJ&pg=7224,3774927|title=Castoff List Has Arrived|date=May 17, 1974|newspaper=Herald-Journal|access-date=April 9, 2010}}
The Jazz were formed and owned by a group headed by Fred Rosenfeld and Sam Battistone.{{cite web|url=http://www.sltrib.com/jazz/ci_10736816|title=Jazz at 35: A first-era timeline|date=May 3, 2009|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|access-date=April 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218054328/http://www.sltrib.com/jazz/ci_10736816|archive-date=February 18, 2009|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://people.forbes.com/profile/sam-d-battistone/27241|title=Sam D. Battistone Profile|work=Forbes.com|access-date=April 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803055401/http://people.forbes.com/profile/sam-d-battistone/27241|archive-date=August 3, 2010|url-status=dead}} Former college basketball coach Scotty Robertson was hired as the franchise's first head coach and 11-time All-Star Elgin Baylor was named as one of the assistant coach. The Jazz's selections included five-time All-Star Walt Bellamy, three-time All-Star Bob Kauffman and one-time All-Star John Block. However, none of them had long careers with the Jazz; Bellamy, who was 35 years old, was waived after one game and both Kauffman and Block were traded. Prior to the draft, the Jazz made a trade with the Atlanta Hawks which brought two-time All-Star Pete Maravich to the Jazz. In exchange for Maravich, the Jazz sent the first guard and forward chosen in the expansion draft, which turned out to be Bob Kauffman and Dean Meminger, along with future draft picks to the Hawks.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/maravpe01.html|title=Pete Maravich Statistics|work=basketball-reference.com|access-date=April 9, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100413232429/http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/maravpe01.html| archive-date= 13 April 2010 | url-status= live}} Ten players from the expansion draft joined the Jazz for their inaugural season, but only three played more than one season for the team.
Key
| class="wikitable"
|width="50"|Pos. | width="50"|G | width="50"|F | width="50"|C |
| Position | Guard | Forward | Center |
{{NBA Draft legend|1=y|3=y}}
Selections
| class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"
! width="19%"| Player ! width="1%"| Pos. ! width="16%"| Nationality ! width="20%"| Previous team ! width="5%"| Years of NBA experience{{ref label|Note1|a|a}} ! width="12%"| Career with the franchise ! width="1%" class=unsortable| Ref. |
| {{sortname|Dennis|Awtrey}}
| C | {{flagu|United States}} | 4 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Jim|Barnett|dab=basketball}}
| G/F | {{flagu|United States}} | 8 | {{nbay|1974|full=y}} |
| bgcolor="#FFFF99"| {{sortname|Walt|Bellamy}}^
| C | {{flagu|United States}} | 13 | {{nbay|1974|start}} |
| bgcolor="#FFCC00"| {{sortname|John|Block|dab=basketball}}+
| F/C | {{flagu|United States}} | 8 | {{nbay|1974|start}} |
| {{sortname|Barry|Clemens}}
| F | {{flagu|United States}} | 9 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|E. C.|Coleman}}
| F | {{flagu|United States}} | 1 | {{nbay|1974|start}}–{{nbay|1976|end}} |
| {{sortname|Lamar|Green}}
| F/C | {{flagu|United States}} | 5 | {{nbay|1974|start}} |
| {{sortname|Nate|Hawthorne}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 1 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Ollie|Johnson|Ollie Johnson (basketball, born 1949)}}
| F | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 | {{nbay|1974|full=yes}} |
| bgcolor="#FFCC00"| {{sortname|Bob|Kauffman}}+
| F/C | {{flagu|United States}} | 6 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Toby|Kimball}}
| F/C | {{flagu|United States}} | 8 | {{nbay|1974|start}} |
| {{sortname|Steve|Kuberski}}
| F/C | {{flagu|United States}} | 5 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Stu|Lantz}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 6 | {{nbay|1974|start}} |
| {{sortname|Dean|Meminger}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 3 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Louie|Nelson}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 1 | {{nbay|1974|start}}–{{nbay|1975|end}} |
| {{sortname|Curtis|Perry}}
| F | {{flagu|United States}} | 4 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Isaac|Stallworth}}
| G/F | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 | {{nbay|1974|start}}–{{nbay|1976|end}} |
Notes
- {{note label|Note1|a|a}} Number of years played in the NBA prior to the draft
- {{note label|Note2|b|b}} Never played a game for the franchise
References
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- {{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/history/expansion_drafts.html|title=NBA Expansion Drafts: Results|work=NBA.com|publisher=Turner Sports Interactive, Inc|access-date=April 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329091903/http://www.nba.com/history/expansion_drafts.html|archive-date=29 March 2010|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/bobcats/news/draft_central_expansion_alltime_results.html |title=All-Time NBA Expansion Draft Results |work=NBA.com/Bobcats |publisher=Turner Sports Interactive, Inc |access-date=April 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116123003/http://www.nba.com/bobcats/news/draft_central_expansion_alltime_results.html |archive-date=January 16, 2008 }}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/NBA_1974_expansion.html|title=1974 NBA Expansion Draft|work=basketball-reference.com|access-date=April 9, 2010}}
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External links
- [http://www.nba.com/ NBA.com]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090315112610/http://www.nba.com/history/draft_index.html NBA.com: NBA Draft History]
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