1980 NBA expansion draft
{{Short description|Player selection draft}}
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{{Infobox sports draft
| name = 1980 NBA expansion draft
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| sport = Basketball
| date = May 28, 1980
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| league = NBA
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| prev = 1974
| next = 1988
| expansion_teams = Dallas Mavericks
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The 1980 NBA expansion draft was the seventh expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on May 28, 1980, so that the newly founded Dallas Mavericks could acquire players for the upcoming 1980–81 season. Dallas had been awarded the expansion team on February 3, 1980.{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/mavericks/history/mavs_history.html |title=Mavs History |work=NBA.com |publisher=Turner Sports Interactive, Inc |access-date=June 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507101942/http://www.nba.com/mavericks/history/mavs_history.html |archive-date=7 May 2010 |url-status=dead }} 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 twenty-two other NBA teams had protected eight players from their roster and the Mavericks selected twenty-two unprotected players, one from each team.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EJcyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d-cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4896,5264484|title=Paper says franchise can pick big names|date=May 22, 1980|newspaper=Lawrence Journal-World|access-date=June 2, 2010}}
The Mavericks were formed and owned by a group headed by Don Carter and Norm Sonju. Washington Bullets head coach and {{nbay|1970|end}} Coach of the Year Dick Motta was hired as the franchise's first head coach. The Mavericks' went with young players in the expansion draft and avoided selecting experienced players with large contracts or injury problems.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UoMsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=484EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5731,6255803|title=Mavericks Go For Young Prospects|date=May 29, 1980|newspaper=Herald-Journal|access-date=June 2, 2010}} Eighteen of the twenty-two players chosen had less than three years of NBA experience. The Mavericks' selections included former first overall pick Austin Carr, one-time All-Defensive Team Jim Cleamons and eleven-year veteran Bingo Smith. However, Cleamons and Smith never played for the Mavericks and Carr only played briefly before he was sold to the Washington Bullets.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/carrau01.html|title=Austin Carr Statistics|access-date=June 2, 2010|work=basketball-reference.com}} Eleven of the selections were former first-round draft picks. Eleven players from the expansion draft joined the Mavericks for their inaugural season, but only two played more than one season for the team. Tom LaGarde played two seasons and Jim Spanarkel played four seasons for the Mavericks.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/lagarto01.html|title=Tom LaGarde Statistics|access-date=June 2, 2010|work=basketball-reference.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/spanaji01.html|title=Jim Spanarkel Statistics|access-date=June 2, 2010|work=basketball-reference.com}}
Key
| class="wikitable"
|width="50"|Pos. | width="50"|G | width="50"|F | width="50"|C |
| Position | Guard | Forward | Center |
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Selections
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! 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|Del|Beshore}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Winford|Boynes}}
| G/F | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 | {{nbay|1980|full=y}} |
| {{sortname|Alonzo|Bradley}}
| F | {{flagu|United States}} | 3 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Mike|Bratz}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 3 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Marty|Byrnes}}
| F | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 | {{nbay|1980|full=y}} |
| bgcolor="#FFCC00"| {{sortname|Austin|Carr}}+
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 9 | {{nbay|1980|start}} |
| {{sortname|Jim|Cleamons}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 9 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Terry|Duerod}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 1 | {{nbay|1980|start}} |
| {{sortname|Jack|Givens}}
| G/F | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Joe|Hassett}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 3 | {{nbay|1980|start}} |
| {{sortname|Geoff|Huston|dab=basketball}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 1 | {{nbay|1980|full=y}} |
| {{sortname|Abdul|Jeelani}}{{ref label|Note3|c|c}}
| F/C | {{flagu|United States}} | 1 | {{nbay|1980|full=y}} |
| {{sortname|Jeff|Judkins}}
| G/F | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Arvid|Kramer}}
| C | {{flagu|United States}} | 1 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Tom|LaGarde}}
| F/C | {{USA}} | 3 | {{nbay|1980|start}}–{{nbay|1981|end}} |
| {{sortname|Billy|McKinney|dab=basketball}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Wiley|Peck}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 1 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Bingo|Smith}}
| G/F | {{USA}} | 11 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Jim|Spanarkel}}
| G/F | {{USA}} | 1 | {{nbay|1980|start}}–{{nbay|1983|end}} |
| {{sortname|Raymond|Townsend}}
| G | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 |align="center"| —{{ref label|Note2|b|b}} |
| {{sortname|Richard|Washington}}
| F/C | {{flagu|United States}} | 4 | {{nbay|1980|start}} |
| {{sortname|Jerome|Whitehead}}
| F/C | {{flagu|United States}} | 2 | {{nbay|1980|full=y}} |
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
- {{note label|Note3|c|c}} Abdul Jeelani was known as Gary Cole during his college career.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2yQvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2CoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4898,2503460|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629141337/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2yQvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2CoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4898,2503460|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2012|title=Ex-State Star Leads Portland|date=September 24, 1979|newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal|location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin|publisher=Journal Communications|access-date=January 8, 2010}}
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=June 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701170036/http://www.nba.com/history/expansion_drafts.html|archive-date=1 July 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=June 2, 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_1980_expansion.html|title=1980 NBA Expansion Draft|work=basketball-reference.com|access-date=June 2, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100529060228/http://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/NBA_1980_expansion.html| archive-date= 29 May 2010 | url-status= live}}
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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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