1978 NBA Draft
Every pick from the 1978 NBA Draft, with the selecting team and college or prior team.
| Pick | Rd | Team | Player | College/From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | POR | Mychal Thompson | Minnesota |
| 2 | 1 | KCK | Phil Ford | UNC |
| 3 | 1 | IND | Rick Robey | Kentucky |
| 4 | 1 | NYK | Michael Ray Richardson | Montana |
| 5 | 1 | GSW | Purvis Short | Jackson State University |
| 6 | 1 | BOS | Larry Bird | Indiana State University |
| 7 | 1 | POR | Ron Brewer | Arkansas |
| 8 | 1 | BOS | Freeman Williams | Portland State |
| 9 | 1 | CHI | Reggie Theus | UNLV |
| 10 | 1 | ATL | Butch Lee | Marquette |
| 11 | 1 | NOJ | James Hardy | San Francisco |
| 12 | 1 | MIL | George Johnson | St. John's |
| 13 | 1 | NJN | Winford Boynes | San Francisco |
| 14 | 1 | WSB | Roger Phegley | Bradley |
| 15 | 1 | CLE | Mike Mitchell | Auburn |
| 16 | 1 | ATL | Jack Givens | Kentucky |
| 17 | 1 | DEN | Rod Griffin | Wake Forest |
| 18 | 1 | WSB | Dave Corzine | DePaul |
| 19 | 1 | PHX | Marty Byrnes | Syracuse |
| 20 | 1 | SAS | Frankie Sanders | Southern University and A&M College |
| 21 | 1 | DEN | Mike Evans | Kansas State |
| 22 | 1 | GSW | Raymond Townsend | UCLA |
| 23 | 2 | DET | Terry Tyler | Detroit Mercy |
| 24 | 2 | POR | Keith Herron | Villanova |
| 25 | 2 | ATL | Rick Wilson | Louisville |
| 26 | 2 | LAL | Ron Carter | Virginia Military Institute |
| 27 | 2 | IND | Wayne Radford | Indiana |
| 28 | 2 | HOU | Buster Matheney | Utah |
| 29 | 2 | DET | John Long | Detroit Mercy |
| 30 | 2 | BOS | Jeff Judkins | Utah |
| 31 | 2 | CHI | Marvin Johnson | New Mexico |
| 32 | 2 | NYK | John Rudd | McNeese State University |
| 33 | 2 | CLE | Harry Davis | Florida State |
| 34 | 2 | NYK | Greg Bunch | Cal State Fullerton |
| 35 | 2 | NOJ | Tommie Green | Southern University and A&M College |
| 36 | 2 | PHI | Maurice Cheeks | West Texas A&M University |
| 37 | 2 | WSB | Terry Sykes | Grambling State University |
| 38 | 2 | LAL | Lew Massey | UNC Charlotte |
| 39 | 2 | SEA | James Lee | Kentucky |
| 40 | 2 | GSW | Wayne Cooper | New Orleans |
| 41 | 2 | SDC | Jerome Whitehead | Marquette |
| 42 | 2 | SEA | Keven McDonald | Penn |
| 43 | 2 | PHI | Glenn Hagan | St. Bonaventure |
| 44 | 2 | POR | Clemon Johnson | Florida A&M |
| 45 | 3 | NJN | Mike Phillips | Kentucky |
| 46 | 3 | DEN | Hollis Copeland | Rutgers University |
| 47 | 3 | HOU | Billy Ray Bates | Kentucky State University |
| 48 | 3 | SDC | Mike Santos | Utah State University |
| 49 | 3 | KCK | Jeff Cook | Idaho State University |
| 50 | 3 | BOS | Dana Skinner | Merrimack College |
| 51 | 3 | SDC | Ricky Gallon | Louisville |
| 52 | 3 | KCK | Mike Russell | Texas Tech |
| 53 | 3 | CHI | Randy Ayers | Miami University |
| 54 | 3 | ATL | Steve Grant | Manhattan University |
| 55 | 3 | NYK | Marc Iavaroni | Virginia |
| 56 | 3 | GSW | Steve Neff | Southern Nazarene University |
| 57 | 3 | CLE | Kenny Higgs | LSU |
| 58 | 3 | WSB | Rick Apke | Creighton |
| 59 | 3 | MIL | Pat Cummings | Cincinnati |
| 60 | 3 | LAL | Michael Cooper | New Mexico |
| 61 | 3 | SEA | Dave Baxter | Michigan |
| 62 | 3 | NJN | Dave Batton | Notre Dame |
| 63 | 3 | PHX | Joel Kramer | San Diego State |
| 64 | 3 | SAS | Gerald Henderson | VCU |
| 65 | 3 | SDC | Marvin Delph | Arkansas |
| 66 | 3 | POR | Sterling Edmonds | Dartmouth College |
| 67 | 4 | HOU | Jackie Robinson | UNLV |
| 68 | 4 | SDC | Jim Boylan | Marquette |
| 69 | 4 | HOU | Joel Thompson | Michigan |
| 70 | 4 | KCK | Geoff Crompton | UNC |
| 71 | 4 | IND | Rickey Lee | Oregon State |
| 72 | 4 | BOS | Dave Nelson | Bloomfield College |
| 73 | 4 | SDC | Larry Harris | Pitt |
| 74 | 4 | NOJ | Mel Davis | University of North Texas |
| 75 | 4 | NOJ | Jeff Covington | Youngstown State University |
| 76 | 4 | SDC | Leroy McDonald | Wake Forest |
| 77 | 4 | GSW | Derrick Jackson | Georgetown |
| 78 | 4 | CLE | Stan Rome | Clemson |
| 79 | 4 | NYK | Erving Giddings | Dayton |
| 80 | 4 | MIL | Otis Howard | Austin Peay State University |
| 81 | 4 | WSB | Lawrence Boston | Maryland |
| 82 | 4 | LAL | Harold Robertson | Lincoln University of Missouri |
| 83 | 4 | SEA | Billy Lewis | Illinois State |
| 84 | 4 | NJN | Walter Jordan | Purdue |
| 85 | 4 | PHX | Bob Miller | Cincinnati |
| 86 | 4 | SAS | Rich Adams | Illinois |
| 87 | 4 | PHI | Brett Vroman | UNLV |
| 88 | 4 | PHX | Wayne Smith | University of California, Irvine |
| 89 | 5 | NJN | Cecil Rose | Houston |
| 90 | 5 | SDC | David Thompson | Florida State |
| 91 | 5 | HOU | Gary Goodner | Texas |
| 92 | 5 | IND | James Sparrow | North Carolina A&T |
| 93 | 5 | KCK | Derrick Clairborne | UMass |
| 94 | 5 | BOS | Greg Tynes | Seton Hall |
| 95 | 5 | DET | Dave Caligaris | Northeastern University |
| 96 | 5 | NOJ | Duck Williams | Notre Dame |
| 97 | 5 | CHI | Ron Anthony | Jacksonville University |
| 98 | 5 | ATL | Chris Potter | Holy Cross |
| 99 | 5 | CLE | Ken Koenigs | Kansas |
| 100 | 5 | NYK | Greg Green | Southern University and A&M College |
| 101 | 5 | GSW | Bubba Wilson | Western Carolina University |
| 102 | 5 | WSB | Roger Dickens | Towson University |
| 103 | 5 | MIL | Russ Coleman | University of the Pacific |
| 104 | 5 | LAL | Carlos Terry | Winston-Salem State |
| 105 | 5 | SEA | Ralph Drollinger | UCLA |
| 106 | 5 | DEN | Michael Edwards | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| 107 | 5 | PHX | Andre Wakefield | Loyola Chicago |
| 108 | 5 | SAS | Eugene Parker | Purdue |
| 109 | 5 | PHI | Mark Haymore | UMass |
| 110 | 5 | POR | Clay Johnson | Missouri |
| 111 | 6 | NJN | Golie Augustus | South Carolina |
| 112 | 6 | SDC | Bob Misevicius | Providence |
| 113 | 6 | HOU | Eddie Joe Chavez | Santa Clara |
| 114 | 6 | KCK | Jim Krivacs | Texas |
| 115 | 6 | IND | Sherman Dillard | James Madison University |
| 116 | 6 | BOS | Dave Winey | Minnesota |
| 117 | 6 | DET | Audie Matthews | Illinois |
| 118 | 6 | NOJ | John Douglas | Kansas |
| 119 | 6 | CHI | John Shoemaker | Miami University |
| 120 | 6 | ATL | Gerald Glover | Howard University |
| 121 | 6 | NYK | Eddie Warren | Briar Cliff University |
| 122 | 6 | GSW | Buzz Harnett | University of San Diego |
| 123 | 6 | CLE | Ron Bell | Virginia Tech |
| 124 | 6 | MIL | Dave Kyle | Cleveland State University |
| 125 | 6 | WSB | Archie Aldridge | Miami University |
| 126 | 6 | LAL | Kim Stewart | Washington |
| 127 | 6 | DEN | Robert Heard | Columbus State University |
| 128 | 6 | PHX | Charles Thompson | Houston |
| 129 | 6 | SAS | Harry Morgan | Indiana State University |
| 130 | 6 | PHI | Osborne Lockhart | Minnesota |
| 131 | 6 | POR | Tim Evans | University of Puget Sound |
| 132 | 7 | NJN | Doug Jemison | San Francisco |
| 133 | 7 | SDC | Stan Pietkiewicz | Auburn |
| 134 | 7 | HOU | Stan Stewart | Loyola Marymount |
| 135 | 7 | IND | Ollie Matson Jr. | Pepperdine |
| 136 | 7 | KCK | Charles McMillian | University of North Texas |
| 137 | 7 | BOS | Steve Balkun | Fairfield |
| 138 | 7 | DET | Herb Entzminger | Johnson C. Smith University |
| 139 | 7 | NOJ | Willie Howard | New Mexico |
| 140 | 7 | CHI | Jarvis Reynolds | West Georgia |
| 141 | 7 | ATL | Jim DeWeese | Gonzaga |
| 142 | 7 | GSW | Rick Bernard | Saint Mary's |
| 143 | 7 | CLE | Tony Smith | UNLV |
| 144 | 7 | NYK | Gary Pember | Nasson College |
| 145 | 7 | WSB | Ed Hopkins | Georgetown |
| 146 | 7 | MIL | Kim Anderson | Missouri |
| 147 | 7 | LAL | Larry Paige | Colorado State |
| 148 | 7 | DEN | Jack Gilloon | South Carolina |
| 149 | 7 | PHX | Steve Malovic | San Diego State |
| 150 | 7 | SAS | Hector Olivencia | Sacred Heart University |
| 151 | 7 | PHI | Anthony Murray | Alabama |
| 152 | 7 | POR | Walter Reason | Pacific University |
| 153 | 8 | NJN | Bruce Campbell | Providence |
| 154 | 8 | SDC | Felton Young | Jacksonville University |
| 155 | 8 | KCK | Ron Hammye | Bowling Green |
| 156 | 8 | BOS | Kim Fisher | Fairfield |
| 157 | 8 | DET | Earl Evans | UNLV |
| 158 | 8 | NOJ | Carl Kilpatrick | Louisiana-Monroe |
| 159 | 8 | CHI | Chubby Cox | San Francisco |
| 160 | 8 | ATL | Ed Murphy | Merrimack College |
| 161 | 8 | CLE | Roland Martin | Missouri Southern State |
| 162 | 8 | NYK | Greg Sanders | St. Bonaventure |
| 163 | 8 | GSW | Tony Searcy | Appalachian State University |
| 164 | 8 | MIL | Tom Zaliagiris | UNC |
| 165 | 8 | WSB | Nestor Cora | St. Francis College |
| 166 | 8 | DEN | Larry Vaculik | Colorado |
| 167 | 8 | PHX | George Fowler | University of the Pacific |
| 168 | 8 | SAS | Henry Taylor | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| 169 | 8 | PHI | Alan Cunningham | Colorado State |
| 170 | 8 | POR | Mark Wickman | Linfield College |
| 171 | 9 | NJN | Frank Sowinski | Princeton |
| 172 | 9 | SDC | Bobby White | Centenary (LA) |
| 173 | 9 | BOS | Les Anderson | George Washington |
| 174 | 9 | DET | Ulice Payne | Marquette |
| 175 | 9 | NOJ | Chad Nelson | Drake University |
| 176 | 9 | CHI | Joe Ponsetto | DePaul |
| 177 | 9 | ATL | Maurice Robinson | West Virginia |
| 178 | 9 | NYK | Denny Fields | UNC Wilmington |
| 179 | 9 | GSW | Bobby Humbles | Bradley |
| 180 | 9 | CLE | Steve Bayless | Central State University |
| 181 | 9 | WSB | Tim Claxton | Temple |
| 182 | 9 | MIL | Gary Rosenberger | Marquette |
| 183 | 9 | DEN | Tom Schneeberger | Air Force |
| 184 | 9 | PHX | Nate Stokes | Grand Canyon University |
| 185 | 9 | SAS | Rick Taylor | Arizona State |
| 186 | 9 | POR | Paul Cozens | Holy Cross |
| 187 | 10 | NJN | Michael Vicens | Holy Cross |
| 188 | 10 | BOS | Walter Harrigan | Brandeis University |
| 189 | 10 | DET | Dave Grauzer | Central Michigan University |
| 190 | 10 | NOJ | Rickey Williams | Cal State Long Beach |
| 191 | 10 | CHI | Mark Tucker | Oklahoma State |
| 192 | 10 | ATL | Marshall Lester | Florida Southern College |
| 193 | 10 | GSW | Mike Muff | Murray State |
| 194 | 10 | CLE | Gary Winton | United States Military Academy |
| 195 | 10 | NYK | Ernest Simons | Pace University |
| 196 | 10 | MIL | Tom Anderson | Green Bay |
| 197 | 10 | WSB | Steve Connor | Boise State |
| 198 | 10 | DEN | Phil Taylor | Arizona |
| 199 | 10 | PHX | Lewis Cohen | Cal Poly |
| 200 | 10 | SAS | Larry Brewster | Florida |
| 201 | 10 | PHI | Dennis James | Widener University |
| 202 | 10 | POR | Tim Warkentin | Biola University |