1983 NBA Draft
Every pick from the 1983 NBA Draft, with the selecting team and college or prior team.
| Pick | Rd | Team | Player | College/From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | HOU | Ralph Sampson | Virginia |
| 2 | 1 | IND | Steve Stipanovich | Missouri |
| 3 | 1 | HOU | Rodney McCray | Louisville |
| 4 | 1 | SDC | Byron Scott | Arizona State |
| 5 | 1 | CHI | Sidney Green | UNLV |
| 6 | 1 | GSW | Russell Cross | Purdue |
| 7 | 1 | UTA | Thurl Bailey | NC State |
| 8 | 1 | DET | Antoine Carr | Wichita State |
| 9 | 1 | DAL | Dale Ellis | Tennessee |
| 10 | 1 | WSB | Jeff Malone | Mississippi State |
| 11 | 1 | DAL | Derek Harper | Illinois |
| 12 | 1 | NYK | Darrell Walker | Arkansas |
| 13 | 1 | KCK | Ennis Whatley | Alabama |
| 14 | 1 | POR | Clyde Drexler | Houston |
| 15 | 1 | DEN | Howard Carter | LSU |
| 16 | 1 | SEA | Jon Sundvold | Missouri |
| 17 | 1 | PHI | Leo Rautins | Syracuse |
| 18 | 1 | MIL | Randy Breuer | Minnesota |
| 19 | 1 | SAS | John Paxson | Notre Dame |
| 20 | 1 | CLE | Roy Hinson | Rutgers University |
| 21 | 1 | BOS | Greg Kite | BYU |
| 22 | 1 | WSB | Randy Wittman | Indiana |
| 23 | 1 | IND | Mitchell Wiggins | Florida State |
| 24 | 1 | CLE | Stewart Granger | Villanova |
| 25 | 2 | CHI | Sidney Lowe | NC State |
| 26 | 2 | IND | Leroy Combs | Oklahoma State |
| 27 | 2 | CLE | John Garris | Boston College |
| 28 | 2 | PHX | Rod Foster | UCLA |
| 29 | 2 | CHI | Larry Micheaux | Houston |
| 30 | 2 | DAL | Mark West | Old Dominion |
| 31 | 2 | ATL | Doc Rivers | Marquette |
| 32 | 2 | WSB | Michael Britt | University of the District of Columbia |
| 33 | 2 | DAL | Dirk Minniefield | Kentucky |
| 34 | 2 | WSB | Guy Williams | Washington State |
| 35 | 2 | SAS | Darrell Lockhart | Auburn |
| 36 | 2 | SEA | Scooter McCray | Louisville |
| 37 | 2 | DEN | David Russell | St. John's |
| 38 | 2 | KCK | Chris McNealy | San Jose State |
| 39 | 2 | POR | Granville Waiters | Ohio State |
| 40 | 2 | IND | Jim Thomas | Indiana |
| 41 | 2 | MIL | Ted Kitchel | Indiana |
| 42 | 2 | MIL | Mike Davis | Alabama |
| 43 | 2 | GSW | Pace Mannion | Utah |
| 44 | 2 | NJN | Horace Owens | Rhode Island |
| 45 | 2 | PHX | Paul Williams | Arizona State |
| 46 | 2 | SAS | Kevin Williams | St. John's |
| 47 | 2 | PHI | Ken Lyons | University of North Texas |
| 48 | 3 | HOU | Craig Ehlo | Washington State |
| 49 | 3 | IND | Greg Jones | West Virginia |
| 50 | 3 | CLE | Paul Thompson | Tulane |
| 51 | 3 | PHX | Dereck Whittenburg | NC State |
| 52 | 3 | BOS | Winfred King | East Tennessee State University |
| 53 | 3 | GSW | Michael Holton | UCLA |
| 54 | 3 | UTA | Bob Hansen | Iowa |
| 55 | 3 | DET | Erich Santifer | Syracuse |
| 56 | 3 | CLE | Larry Anderson | UNLV |
| 57 | 3 | WSB | Darren Daye | UCLA |
| 58 | 3 | ATL | John Pinone | Villanova |
| 59 | 3 | NJN | Bruce Kuczenski | UConn |
| 60 | 3 | KCK | Steve Harriel | Washington State |
| 61 | 3 | DEN | David Little | Oklahoma |
| 62 | 3 | POR | Tom Piotrowski | La Salle |
| 63 | 3 | SEA | Frank Burnell | Stetson University |
| 64 | 3 | PHI | Claude Riley | Texas A&M |
| 65 | 3 | MIL | Billy Goodwin | St. John's |
| 66 | 3 | CLE | Les Craft | Kansas State |
| 67 | 3 | CLE | Derrick Hord | Kentucky |
| 68 | 3 | BOS | Craig Robinson | Virginia |
| 69 | 3 | LAL | Orlando Phillips | Pepperdine |
| 70 | 3 | PHI | Dan Ruland | James Madison University |
| 71 | 4 | HOU | Darrell Browder | TCU |
| 72 | 4 | IND | Terry Fair | Georgia |
| 73 | 4 | CLE | Dwight Jones | Cincinnati |
| 74 | 4 | PHI | Kalpatrick Wells | Mississippi State |
| 75 | 4 | CHI | Ron Crevier | Boston College |
| 76 | 4 | UTA | Doug Arnold | TCU |
| 77 | 4 | GSW | Peter Thibeaux | Saint Mary's |
| 78 | 4 | DET | Steve Bouchie | Indiana |
| 79 | 4 | DAL | Johnny Martin | Northwestern State University |
| 80 | 4 | WSB | Dan Gay | Louisiana |
| 81 | 4 | ATL | Harry Kelly | Texas Southern |
| 82 | 4 | NYK | Mark Jones | St. Bonaventure |
| 83 | 4 | DEN | York Gross | UC Santa Barbara |
| 84 | 4 | KCK | Mike Jackson | Wyoming |
| 85 | 4 | POR | Tim Dunham | Chaminade University of Honolulu |
| 86 | 4 | SEA | Pete DeBisschop | Fairfield |
| 87 | 4 | NJN | Barney Mines | Bradley |
| 88 | 4 | MIL | Mark Nickens | American University |
| 89 | 4 | PHX | Sam Mosley | Nevada |
| 90 | 4 | SAS | Brant Weidner | William & Mary |
| 91 | 4 | BOS | Carlos Clark | Ole Miss |
| 92 | 4 | LAL | Terry Lewis | Mississippi State |
| 93 | 4 | PHI | Craig Robinson | Princeton |
| 94 | 5 | HOU | Chuck Barnett | Oklahoma |
| 95 | 5 | IND | Roger Stieg | Ole Miss |
| 96 | 5 | CLE | Chris Logan | Holy Cross |
| 97 | 5 | SDC | Manute Bol | |
| 98 | 5 | CHI | Tim Andree | Notre Dame |
| 99 | 5 | GSW | Greg Hines | Hampton |
| 100 | 5 | UTA | Matt Clark | Oklahoma State |
| 101 | 5 | DET | Ken Austin | Rice University |
| 102 | 5 | DAL | Jim Lampley | Little Rock |
| 103 | 5 | WSB | Robin Dixon | University of New Hampshire |
| 104 | 5 | ATL | Charles Jones | Oklahoma |
| 105 | 5 | NYK | Troy Lee Mikell | East Tennessee State University |
| 106 | 5 | KCK | Lorenza Andrews | Oklahoma State |
| 107 | 5 | DEN | James Braddock | UNC |
| 108 | 5 | POR | Gary Monroe | Wright State University |
| 109 | 5 | SEA | Brad Watson | Washington |
| 110 | 5 | NJN | Tyren Naulls | Texas A&M |
| 111 | 5 | MIL | Mark Petteway | New Orleans |
| 112 | 5 | SAS | Jeff Pehl | Richmond |
| 113 | 5 | PHX | Rick Lamb | Illinois State |
| 114 | 5 | BOS | Bob Reitz | Stonehill College |
| 115 | 5 | LAL | Danny Dixon | Alabama A&M University |
| 116 | 5 | PHI | Mike Milligan | Tennessee State |
| 117 | 6 | HOU | Jim Stack | Northwestern |
| 118 | 6 | IND | Cliff Pruitt | UAB |
| 119 | 6 | CLE | Mel McLaughlin | Central Michigan University |
| 120 | 6 | MIL | Russell Todd | West Virginia |
| 121 | 6 | CHI | Ernest Patterson | New Mexico State |
| 122 | 6 | UTA | Fred Gilliam | Clemson |
| 123 | 6 | GSW | Tom Heywood | Weber State |
| 124 | 6 | DET | Derek Perry | Michigan State |
| 125 | 6 | DAL | Billy Allen | Nevada |
| 126 | 6 | WSB | Donald Carroll | Saint Augustine's College |
| 127 | 6 | ATL | Tom Bethea | Richmond |
| 128 | 6 | NYK | Tony Simms | Boston University |
| 129 | 6 | DEN | Glenn Green | Murray State |
| 130 | 6 | KCK | Alvis Rogers | Wake Forest |
| 131 | 6 | POR | Derrick Pope | Montana |
| 132 | 6 | SEA | Tony Wilson | Western Kentucky |
| 133 | 6 | NJN | Oscar Taylor | New Orleans |
| 134 | 6 | MIL | Charles Hurt | Kentucky |
| 135 | 6 | PHX | Edward Bona | Fordham |
| 136 | 6 | SAS | Ricky Hooker | St. Mary's University |
| 137 | 6 | BOS | Paul Atkins | Dallas Baptist University |
| 138 | 6 | LAL | Mark Steele | Colorado State |
| 139 | 6 | PHI | Sedale Threatt | West Virginia Tech |
| 140 | 7 | HOU | Brian Kellerman | Idaho |
| 141 | 7 | IND | Tony Brown | Indiana |
| 142 | 7 | CLE | John Colombo | John Carroll University |
| 143 | 7 | SDC | Dan Evans | Oregon State |
| 144 | 7 | CHI | Jacque Hill | USC |
| 145 | 7 | GSW | Peter Williams | Utah |
| 146 | 7 | UTA | Gerald Kazanowski | |
| 147 | 7 | DET | Rob Gonzalez | Colorado |
| 148 | 7 | DAL | Terrell Schlundt | Marquette |
| 149 | 7 | WSB | Danny Womack | Winston-Salem State |
| 150 | 7 | ATL | Lex Drum | UAB |
| 151 | 7 | NYK | Desi Barmore | Fresno State |
| 152 | 7 | KCK | Dane Suttle | Pepperdine |
| 153 | 7 | DEN | Maurice McDaniel | Catawba College |
| 154 | 7 | POR | Paul Little | Penn |
| 155 | 7 | SEA | Tony Gattis | Mercer University |
| 156 | 7 | NJN | Keith Bennett | Sacred Heart University |
| 157 | 7 | MIL | Anthony Hicks | Xavier |
| 158 | 7 | SAS | Keith Williams | Oklahoma Panhandle State University |
| 159 | 7 | PHX | Fred Brown | VCU |
| 160 | 7 | BOS | Ron Jackson | Providence |
| 161 | 7 | LAL | Ricky Mixon | Cal State Fullerton |
| 162 | 7 | PHI | Tony Bruin | Syracuse |
| 163 | 8 | HOU | Jeff Bolding | Arkansas State University |
| 164 | 8 | IND | Ray McCallum | Ball State University |
| 165 | 8 | CLE | Larry Tucker | Lewis (IL) |
| 166 | 8 | SDC | Mark Gannon | Iowa |
| 167 | 8 | CHI | Terry Bradley | Chicago State |
| 168 | 8 | UTA | Michael McCombs | College of Santa Fe |
| 169 | 8 | GSW | Doug Harris | Central Washington University |
| 170 | 8 | DET | George Wenzel | Augustana College (IL) |
| 171 | 8 | DAL | Bill Sadler | Pepperdine |
| 172 | 8 | WSB | Bernard Perry | Howard University |
| 173 | 8 | ATL | George Thomas | Georgia Tech |
| 174 | 8 | NYK | Mike Lang | Penn State |
| 175 | 8 | DEN | Cliff Tribus | Davidson |
| 176 | 8 | KCK | Preston Neumayr | UC-Davis |
| 177 | 8 | POR | Frank Smith | Arizona |
| 178 | 8 | SEA | Ray Smith | Armstrong Atlantic State University |
| 179 | 8 | NJN | Joey Myers | Duquesne |
| 180 | 8 | MIL | Brett Burkholder | DePaul |
| 181 | 8 | PHX | Mike Mulquin | Villanova |
| 182 | 8 | SAS | Norvell Brown | Oklahoma Christian University |
| 183 | 8 | BOS | Trent Johnson | Pitt |
| 184 | 8 | PHI | Gordon Austin | American University |
| 185 | 9 | HOU | James Campbell | Oklahoma City University |
| 186 | 9 | IND | Lynn Mitchem | Butler |
| 187 | 9 | CLE | Joe Brown | Georgia State University |
| 188 | 9 | SDC | David Maxwell | Fordham |
| 189 | 9 | CHI | Kenneth Orange | Oklahoma Christian University |
| 190 | 9 | GSW | Greg Goorjian | Loyola Marymount |
| 191 | 9 | UTA | Ron Webb | Oklahoma Christian University |
| 192 | 9 | DET | Marlow McLain | Eastern Michigan |
| 193 | 9 | DAL | Sherrod Arnold | Chicago State |
| 194 | 9 | WSB | Ricky Moreland | UMBC |
| 195 | 9 | ATL | Will Cotchery | University of West Alabama |
| 196 | 9 | NYK | Charles Jones | Marshall |
| 197 | 9 | KCK | Bernard Hill | Oklahoma Panhandle State University |
| 198 | 9 | DEN | Bobby Van Noy | Catawba College |
| 199 | 9 | POR | Phil Hopson | Idaho |
| 200 | 9 | SEA | Tony Washington | Hampton |
| 201 | 9 | NJN | Kevin Black | Rutgers University |
| 202 | 9 | MIL | Bill Varner | Notre Dame |
| 203 | 9 | SAS | Gary Gaspard | St. Mary's University |
| 204 | 9 | PHX | Joe Dykstra | Western Illinois University |
| 205 | 9 | BOS | John Rice | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| 206 | 9 | PHI | Charles Fisher | James Madison University |
| 207 | 10 | IND | Mark Smed | Augustana College (SD) |
| 208 | 10 | CLE | Jon Hanley | Xavier |
| 209 | 10 | SDC | Keith Smith | San Diego State |
| 210 | 10 | CHI | Tom Emma | Duke |
| 211 | 10 | UTA | Odell Mosteller | Auburn |
| 212 | 10 | GSW | Michael Zeno | Cal State Long Beach |
| 213 | 10 | DET | Ike Person | Michigan |
| 214 | 10 | DAL | Clyde Corley | Florida International University |
| 215 | 10 | WSB | Isaiah Singletary | Saint Louis |
| 216 | 10 | ATL | Ronnie Carr | Western Carolina University |
| 217 | 10 | NYK | Bernard Randolph | DePaul |
| 218 | 10 | DEN | Cleveland McCrae | Catawba College |
| 219 | 10 | KCK | Aaron Haskins | Washington State |
| 220 | 10 | POR | Russ Christianson | East Oregon University |
| 221 | 10 | SEA | David Binion | NC Central |
| 222 | 10 | NJN | Rich Simkus | Princeton |
| 223 | 10 | MIL | Bob Kelly | St. John's |
| 224 | 10 | PHX | Bo Overton | Oklahoma |
| 225 | 10 | SAS | Lamar Heard | Georgia |
| 226 | 10 | BOS | Andy Kupec | Bentley College |