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| 1947 BAA Draft | |
| Date | July 1, 1947 |
| Location | Detroit, Michigan |
| First overall pick | Clifton McNeely, Pittsburgh Ironmen |
| 1948 -> | |
The 1947 BAA draft was the 1st draft of the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA). The fledgling BAA held a joint draft with the established National Basketball League (NBL). Both leagues wanted to control salaries by stamping out competitive bidding by assigning exclusive rights to the team selecting a player. The NBL had already signed 11 players, whom they did not feel should be exposed to the draft. The players included college stars Jack Smiley, Ralph Hamilton, Harry Boykoff, John Hargis, Frank Brian, and Charlie Black. As a trade-off, the BAA teams were allowed to select players before the NBL.[1]
The draft was held on July 1, 1947, before the 1947–48 season. The nine remaining BAA teams along with the Baltimore Bullets who joined from the American Basketball League, took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. In the first round of the draft, the teams selected in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season, while the Bullets were assigned the tenth pick, the last pick of the first round. Both the Pittsburgh Ironmen and Toronto Huskies participated in this draft, but they folded before the season opened.
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- General
- "1947 BAA Draft". basketball-reference.com. https://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/BAA_1947.html.
- "1947–1948 BAA Drafts, 1949–1951 NBA Drafts". The Association for Professional Basketball Research. http://www.apbr.org/4751drft.html.
- Specific
- ↑ Template:Cite book
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NBA DRAFTS NAVBOX IN PROGRESS Template:NBA Draft history by team Template:1947 BAA Draft Template:1947–48 BAA season by team