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1951 NBA draft

Basketball player selection

Field	Value
name	1951 NBA draft
sport	Basketball
date	April 25, 1951
location	Park Sheraton Hotel (New York City, New York)
league	NBA
teams	10
overall	87
rounds	12
first	Gene Melchiorre, Baltimore Bullets
prev	[1950](1950-nba-draft)
next	[1952](1952-nba-draft)

The 1951 NBA draft was the fifth annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 25, 1951, before the 1951–52 season. In this draft, ten remaining NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. In each round, the teams selected in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season. The Tri-Cities Blackhawks participated in the draft, but relocated to Milwaukee and became the Milwaukee Hawks prior to the start of the season. The draft consisted of 12 rounds comprising 87 players selected. This draft was the league’s first, and along with the 2000 NBA Draft, one of only two to date, to produce no Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame players (excluding drafts with players not yet eligible).

Draft selections and draftee career notes

Gene Melchiorre from Bradley University was selected first overall by the Baltimore Bullets. However, he never played in the NBA due to his involvement in a point shaving scandal while playing college basketball. Melchiorre would be joined by fellow Bradley teammates Bill Mann (the 21st pick of the draft) and Aaron Preece (the 72nd pick of the draft) in terms of players selected in this year's draft to never play in the NBA due to their involvement in the aforementioned point shaving scandal (other individuals involved and named at the time either went undrafted at the time, were already selected in previous drafts before this year, or were already disqualified from entering the draft this year due to the discovery at hand). Whitey Skoog from University of Minnesota was selected before the draft as Minneapolis Lakers' territorial pick.

Key

Position	Guard	Forward	Center

Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	College
T	–		G	United States	Minneapolis Lakers	Minnesota
1	1	#	G	United States	Baltimore Bullets	Bradley
1	2	+	F/C	United States	Tri-Cities Blackhawks	Brigham Young
1	3	#	C	United States	Indianapolis Olympians	Oklahoma
1	4		G	United States	Fort Wayne Pistons	Niagara
1	5		F	United States	Syracuse Nationals	Northwestern State
1	6		F	United States	New York Knicks	Harvard
1	7		G/F	United States	Boston Celtics	Kansas State
1	8		G	United States	Rochester Royals	NC State
1	9	+	G	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	Illinois
2	10	#	G/F	United States	Baltimore Bullets	Kansas State
2	11	#	F/C	United States	Tri-Cities Blackhawks	Colorado A&M
2	12	#	G	United States	Indianapolis Olympians	Millikin
2	13		G	United States	Fort Wayne Pistons	Syracuse
2	14		G/F	United States	Syracuse Nationals	Le Moyne
2	15	#	G	United States	New York Knicks	Brigham Young
2	16	#	F	United States	Boston Celtics	Indiana
2	17		F	United States	Rochester Royals	Northwestern
2	18		G/F	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	Tulane
2	19		F/C	United States	Minneapolis Lakers	Kansas State

Other picks

The following list includes other draft picks who have appeared in at least one NBA game.

Round	Pick	Position	Nationality	Team	College
3	23	F	United States	Fort Wayne Pistons	Northwestern
3	24	G	United States	Syracuse Nationals	DePaul
3	27	G	United States	Rochester Royals	St. Bonaventure
4	31	C	United States	Tri-Cities Blackhawks	South Carolina
4	32	G	United States	Indianapolis Olympians	Indiana
4	37	C	United States	Rochester Royals	Bradley
5	48	G	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	Princeton
6	51	G	United States	Tri-Cities Blackhawks	Drake
6	55	G/F	United States	New York Knicks	St. John's
6	56	G	United States	Boston Celtics	St. Francis (NY)
7	68	G	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	King's (NY)
8	77	G	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	La Salle

Notable undrafted players

These players were not selected in the 1951 draft, but played at least one game in the NBA.

Player	Pos.	Nationality	School/club team
	G	United States	Colorado State

References

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References

Bradley, Robert D.. (2013). "The Basketball Draft Fact Book: A History of Professional Basketball's College Drafts". Scarecrow Press.
"Hawks: Franchise History". Turner Sports Interactive, Inc.
Goldstein, Joe. (November 19, 2003). "Explosion: 1951 scandals threaten college hoops". ESPN.com.
"1951 NBA draft".
"NBA Past Drafts - RealGM".

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