1980 NBA Draft
Every pick from the 1980 NBA Draft, with the selecting team and college or prior team.
| Pick | Rd | Team | Player | College/From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | GSW | Joe Barry Carroll | Purdue |
| 2 | 1 | UTA | Darrell Griffith | Louisville |
| 3 | 1 | BOS | Kevin McHale | Minnesota |
| 4 | 1 | CHI | Kelvin Ransey | Ohio State |
| 5 | 1 | DEN | James Ray | Jacksonville University |
| 6 | 1 | NJN | Mike O'Koren | UNC |
| 7 | 1 | NJN | Mike Gminski | Duke |
| 8 | 1 | PHI | Andrew Toney | Louisiana |
| 9 | 1 | SDC | Michael Brooks | La Salle |
| 10 | 1 | POR | Ronnie Lester | Iowa |
| 11 | 1 | DAL | Kiki Vandeweghe | UCLA |
| 12 | 1 | NYK | Mike Woodson | Indiana |
| 13 | 1 | GSW | Rickey Brown | Mississippi State |
| 14 | 1 | WSB | Wes Matthews | Wisconsin |
| 15 | 1 | SAS | Reggie Johnson | Tennessee |
| 16 | 1 | KCK | Hawkeye Whitney | NC State |
| 17 | 1 | DET | Larry Drew | Missouri |
| 18 | 1 | ATL | Don Collins | Washington State |
| 19 | 1 | UTA | John Duren | Georgetown |
| 20 | 1 | SEA | Bill Hanzlik | Notre Dame |
| 21 | 1 | PHI | Monti Davis | Tennessee State |
| 22 | 1 | CLE | Chad Kinch | UNC Charlotte |
| 23 | 1 | DEN | Carl Nicks | Indiana State University |
| 24 | 2 | GSW | Larry Smith | Alcorn State |
| 25 | 2 | GSW | Jeff Ruland | Iona College |
| 26 | 2 | CHI | Sam Worthen | Marquette |
| 27 | 2 | HOU | John Stroud | Ole Miss |
| 28 | 2 | ATL | Craig Shelton | Georgetown |
| 29 | 2 | IND | Louis Orr | Syracuse |
| 30 | 2 | IND | Kenny Natt | Louisiana-Monroe |
| 31 | 2 | LAL | Wayne Robinson | Virginia Tech |
| 32 | 2 | POR | David Lawrence | McNeese State University |
| 33 | 2 | POR | Bruce Collins | Weber State |
| 34 | 2 | DAL | Roosevelt Bouie | Syracuse |
| 35 | 2 | WSB | Rick Mahorn | Hampton |
| 36 | 2 | NYK | DeWayne Scales | LSU |
| 37 | 2 | LAL | Butch Carter | Indiana |
| 38 | 2 | HOU | Terry Stotts | Oklahoma |
| 39 | 2 | SAS | Michael Wiley | Cal State Long Beach |
| 40 | 2 | IND | Dick Miller | Toledo |
| 41 | 2 | DEN | Jawann Oldham | Seattle University |
| 42 | 2 | PHX | Kimberly Belton | Stanford |
| 43 | 2 | HOU | Billy Williams | Clemson |
| 44 | 2 | PHI | Clyde Austin | NC State |
| 45 | 2 | DET | Brad Branson | SMU |
| 46 | 2 | BOS | Arnette Hallman | Purdue |
| 47 | 3 | DEN | Kurt Nimphius | Arizona State |
| 48 | 3 | DEN | Eddie Lee | Cincinnati |
| 49 | 3 | GSW | John Virgil | UNC |
| 50 | 3 | CHI | James Wilkes | UCLA |
| 51 | 3 | DEN | Ronnie Valentine | Old Dominion |
| 52 | 3 | NJN | Lowes Moore | West Virginia |
| 53 | 3 | CLE | Stuart House | Washington State |
| 54 | 3 | BOS | Ron Perry | Holy Cross |
| 55 | 3 | CLE | Wayne Abrams | Southern Illinois |
| 56 | 3 | POR | Mike Harper | North Park University |
| 57 | 3 | DAL | Dave Britton | Texas A&M |
| 58 | 3 | NYK | Kurt Rambis | Santa Clara |
| 59 | 3 | PHX | John Campbell | Clemson |
| 60 | 3 | SAS | LaVon Mercer | Georgia |
| 61 | 3 | SAS | Rich Yonakor | UNC |
| 62 | 3 | KCK | Tony Murphy | Southern University and A&M College |
| 63 | 3 | MIL | Al Beal | Oklahoma |
| 64 | 3 | DET | Jonathan Moore | Furman University |
| 65 | 3 | PHX | Doug True | California |
| 66 | 3 | SEA | Carl Bailey | Tuskegee University |
| 67 | 3 | PHI | Reggie Gaines | Winston-Salem State |
| 68 | 3 | CLE | Ron Jones | Illinois State |
| 69 | 3 | BOS | Don Newman | Idaho |
| 70 | 4 | DET | Darwin Cook | University of Portland |
| 71 | 4 | GSW | Robert Scott | Alabama |
| 72 | 4 | UTA | Alan Taylor | BYU |
| 73 | 4 | DEN | Sammie Ellis | Pitt |
| 74 | 4 | CHI | Ron Charles | Michigan State |
| 75 | 4 | NJN | Rory Sparrow | Villanova |
| 76 | 4 | SDC | Ed Odom | Oklahoma State |
| 77 | 4 | CLE | Murray Brown | Florida State |
| 78 | 4 | IND | Rich Branning | Notre Dame |
| 79 | 4 | POR | Kelvin Henderson | Saint Louis |
| 80 | 4 | DAL | David Johnson | Weber State |
| 81 | 4 | WSB | Francois Wise | Cal State Long Beach |
| 82 | 4 | NYK | Joe Chrnelich | Wisconsin |
| 83 | 4 | SAS | Calvin Roberts | Cal State Fullerton |
| 84 | 4 | HOU | Dean Hunger | Utah State University |
| 85 | 4 | PHI | Billy Bryant | Western Kentucky |
| 86 | 4 | MIL | Jeff Wolf | UNC |
| 87 | 4 | LAL | Tony Jackson | Florida State |
| 88 | 4 | PHX | Leroy Stampley | Loyola Chicago |
| 89 | 4 | SEA | Gary Ray Hooker | Murray State |
| 90 | 4 | PHI | Harold Hubbard | Savannah State University |
| 91 | 4 | LAL | Ron Baxter | Texas |
| 92 | 4 | BOS | Kevin Hamilton | Iona College |
| 93 | 5 | DET | Tony Fuller | Pepperdine |
| 94 | 5 | UTA | Wally West | Boston University |
| 95 | 5 | GSW | Don Carfino | USC |
| 96 | 5 | CHI | Mike Campbell | Northwestern |
| 97 | 5 | DEN | James Patrick | Texas State University |
| 98 | 5 | NJN | Aaron Curry | Oklahoma |
| 99 | 5 | SDC | Wally Rank | San Jose State |
| 100 | 5 | IND | Joe Galvin | Illinois State |
| 101 | 5 | CLE | LaVon Williams | Kentucky |
| 102 | 5 | POR | Larry Belin | New Mexico |
| 103 | 5 | DAL | Darrell Allums | UCLA |
| 104 | 5 | NYK | William Carey | Albright College |
| 105 | 5 | WSB | Daryl Strickland | Rutgers University |
| 106 | 5 | HOU | Albert Jones | New Mexico |
| 107 | 5 | SAS | Gib Hinz | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
| 108 | 5 | KCK | Kelvin Blakely | Eastern Michigan |
| 109 | 5 | MIL | Ken Jones | VCU |
| 110 | 5 | ATL | Mike Doyle | South Carolina |
| 111 | 5 | PHX | Mark Stevens | Northern Arizona University |
| 112 | 5 | SEA | Lenny Horton | Georgia Tech |
| 113 | 5 | PHI | Jim Swaney | Toledo |
| 114 | 5 | LAL | Rick Raivio | University of Portland |
| 115 | 5 | BOS | Rufus Harris | University of Maine |
| 116 | 6 | DET | Tony Turner | University of Alaska Anchorage |
| 117 | 6 | GSW | Neil Bresnahan | Illinois |
| 118 | 6 | UTA | Kenny Cunningham | Western Michigan |
| 119 | 6 | DEN | Ernie Hill | Oklahoma City University |
| 120 | 6 | CHI | Bernard Rencher | St. John's |
| 121 | 6 | NJN | Rick Mattick | LSU |
| 122 | 6 | SDC | Londale Theus | Santa Clara |
| 123 | 6 | CLE | Antonio Martin | Oral Roberts |
| 124 | 6 | IND | Randy Owens | Philadelphia University |
| 125 | 6 | POR | Perry Mirkovich | University of Lethbridge |
| 126 | 6 | DAL | Leroy Jackson | Cameron University |
| 127 | 6 | WSB | Ken Dancy | Chicago State |
| 128 | 6 | NYK | Kelvin Hicks | New York Institute of Technology |
| 129 | 6 | SAS | Dean Uthoff | Iowa State |
| 130 | 6 | HOU | Everette Jefferson | New Mexico |
| 131 | 6 | KCK | Trent Grooms | Kent State University |
| 132 | 6 | MIL | Alex Gilbert | Indiana State University |
| 133 | 6 | ATL | Mike Zagardo | George Washington |
| 134 | 6 | PHX | Coby Leavitt | Utah |
| 135 | 6 | SEA | Jim Strickland | South Carolina |
| 136 | 6 | PHI | Donald Cooper | Saint Augustine's College |
| 137 | 6 | LAL | Otis Boddie | University of North Alabama |
| 138 | 6 | BOS | Kenny Evans | Norfolk State |
| 139 | 7 | DET | Carl Pierce | Gonzaga |
| 140 | 7 | UTA | Dave Colescott | UNC |
| 141 | 7 | GSW | Lorenzo Romar | Washington |
| 142 | 7 | CHI | Robert Byrd | Marquette |
| 143 | 7 | DEN | Tommy Springer | Vanderbilt |
| 144 | 7 | NJN | Larry Spicer | UAB |
| 145 | 7 | SDC | Paul Anderson | Vanguard University of Southern California |
| 146 | 7 | IND | Charles Naddaff | Lafayette College |
| 147 | 7 | CLE | Leroy Berry | Wilmington College |
| 148 | 7 | POR | Gig Sims | UCLA |
| 149 | 7 | DAL | Tony Forch | Midwestern State University |
| 150 | 7 | NYK | Bobby Turner | Louisville |
| 151 | 7 | WSB | Karl Godine | Stephen F. Austin |
| 152 | 7 | HOU | Joe Nehls | Arizona |
| 153 | 7 | SAS | Alan Zahn | Arkansas |
| 154 | 7 | KCK | Arnold McDowell | Montana State |
| 155 | 7 | MIL | Ron White | Furman University |
| 156 | 7 | ATL | Charles Hightower | Dillard University |
| 157 | 7 | PHX | Ron Williams | Montana-Western |
| 158 | 7 | SEA | Carl Ervin | Seattle University |
| 159 | 7 | PHI | Richard Smith | Weber State |
| 160 | 7 | BOS | Les Henson | Virginia Tech |
| 161 | 8 | DET | Leroy Loggins | Fairmont State University |
| 162 | 8 | GSW | Kurt Kanaskie | La Salle |
| 163 | 8 | UTA | Jim Brandon | Saint Peter's College |
| 164 | 8 | CHI | Modzel Greer | North Park University |
| 165 | 8 | NJN | Lloyd Terry | New Orleans |
| 166 | 8 | CLE | Jim Ellinghausen | Ohio State |
| 167 | 8 | IND | Steve Stielper | James Madison University |
| 168 | 8 | POR | John Stroeder | Montana |
| 169 | 8 | DAL | Clarence Kea | Lamar |
| 170 | 8 | WSB | Rich Valavicius | Auburn |
| 171 | 8 | NYK | James Salters | Penn |
| 172 | 8 | SAS | Bill Bailey | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| 173 | 8 | HOU | Rosie Barnes | Bowling Green |
| 174 | 8 | MIL | Keith Valentine | Virginia Union University |
| 175 | 8 | PHX | Jim Connolly | La Salle |
| 176 | 8 | SEA | Al Dutch | Georgetown |
| 177 | 8 | PHI | Martin Lemelle | Grambling State University |
| 178 | 8 | LAL | Melvin Hooker | Edinboro University of Pennsylvania |
| 179 | 8 | BOS | Steve Wright | Boston University |
| 180 | 9 | DET | Terry DuPris | Huron University |
| 181 | 9 | UTA | Paul Renfro | UT Arlington |
| 182 | 9 | GSW | Billy Reid | San Francisco |
| 183 | 9 | CHI | Jay Shidler | Kentucky |
| 184 | 9 | DEN | Jim Graziano | South Carolina |
| 185 | 9 | NJN | Barry Young | Colorado State |
| 186 | 9 | IND | Scott Rogers | Kenyon College |
| 187 | 9 | CLE | Melvin Crafter | Central State University |
| 188 | 9 | POR | Rick Boucher | University of Maine |
| 189 | 9 | DAL | Ken Williams | Houston |
| 190 | 9 | NYK | Don Wiley | Monmouth University |
| 191 | 9 | WSB | Clinton Wyatt | Alcorn State |
| 192 | 9 | SAS | Al Williams | University of North Texas |
| 193 | 9 | KCK | Charley Cole | Delta State University |
| 194 | 9 | MIL | Del Yarbrough | Illinois State |
| 195 | 9 | ATL | Stanley Lamb | Franciscan University of Steubenville |
| 196 | 9 | PHX | Keith French | North Park University |
| 197 | 9 | SEA | Jim Tillman | Eastern Kentucky University |
| 198 | 9 | PHI | Luke Griffin | Saint Joseph's |
| 199 | 9 | BOS | Brian Jung | Northwestern |
| 200 | 10 | GSW | Tim Higgins | University of Nebraska at Kearney |
| 201 | 10 | UTA | Leroy Coleman | Middle Tennessee |
| 202 | 10 | DEN | Earl Sango | Regis University |
| 203 | 10 | CHI | Billy Foster | Montana State University, Billings |
| 204 | 10 | IND | John Bates | West Virginia Wesleyan College |
| 205 | 10 | POR | Dave Kufeld | Yeshiva University |
| 206 | 10 | DAL | Tom Morgan | Cal State Fullerton |
| 207 | 10 | WSB | Don Youman | Oklahoma State |
| 208 | 10 | NYK | Gerard Ross | Grand Canyon University |
| 209 | 10 | SAS | Steve Schall | Arkansas |
| 210 | 10 | MIL | Melvin Crayton | Alabama State University |
| 211 | 10 | PHX | Randy Carroll | Kansas |
| 212 | 10 | SEA | Kent Williams | Texas Tech |
| 213 | 10 | PHI | Joe Hand | King's College (Pennsylvania) |
| 214 | 10 | BOS | John Nolan | Providence |