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1952 NBA draft
General information
Sport	Basketball
Date(s)	April 26, 1952
Location	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Overview
106 total selections in 17 rounds
League	NBA
Teams	10
First selection	Mark Workman, Milwaukee Hawks
Hall of Famers	1
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The 1952 NBA draft was the sixth annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 26, 1952, before the 1952–53 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, except for the defending champion, the Minneapolis Lakers, who was assigned the last pick of each round. The draft consisted of 17 rounds comprising 106 players selected.

Draft selections and draftee career notes

Mark Workman from West Virginia University was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Hawks. Bill Mlkvy from Temple University was selected before the draft as Philadelphia Warriors' territorial pick. Don Meineke from the University of Dayton was selected by the Fort Wayne Pistons in the second round and went on to win the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award. The ninth pick of the draft, Clyde Lovellette from University of Kansas, was the only player from that draft to make it to an NBA All-Star Game at least once and to have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame. As such, it would be seen as one of the least successful and less talked about drafts in NBA history.

Tenth-round pick Gene Conley played both professional basketball and baseball. He played six seasons in the NBA for the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks as well as 11 seasons in the Major League Baseball (MLB). He won three NBA championships with the Celtics as well as the 1957 World Series with the Milwaukee Braves, becoming the only athlete to win world championships in both basketball and baseball.

Dick Groat from Duke was picked 3rd overall by the Fort Wayne Pistons and went on to win the National League 1960 MVP, and two World Series championships while playing shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates and then the St. Louis Cardinals.

^	Denotes player who has been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
	Denotes player who has never appeared in an NBA regular season or playoff game

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	College
T	–	Bill Mlkvy	F	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	Temple
1	1	Mark Workman	F/C	United States	Milwaukee Hawks	West Virginia
1	2	Jim Baechtold	G/F	United States	Baltimore Bullets	Eastern Kentucky
1	3	Dick Groat	G	United States	Fort Wayne Pistons	Duke
1	4	Joe Dean	G	United States	Indianapolis Olympians	LSU
1	5	Ralph Polson	F/C	United States	New York Knicks	Whitworth
1	6	Bill Stauffer	F	United States	Boston Celtics	Missouri
1	7	Bob Lochmueller	F	United States	Syracuse Nationals	Louisville
1	8	Chuck Darling	F/C	United States	Rochester Royals	Iowa
1	9	Clyde Lovellette^	F/C	United States	Minneapolis Lakers	Kansas
2	10	Eddie Miller	F/C	United States	Milwaukee Hawks	Syracuse
2	11	Chuck Grigsby	G	United States	Baltimore Bullets	Dayton
2	12	Don Meineke	F/C	United States	Fort Wayne Pistons	Dayton
2	13	Walt Davis	F/C	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	Texas A&M
2	14	Bob Zawoluk	F/C	United States	Indianapolis Olympians	St. John's
2	15	Bert Cook	G	United States	New York Knicks	Utah State
2	16	Jim Iverson	G	United States	Boston Celtics	Kansas State
2	17	Jim Brasco	G	United States	Syracuse Nationals	NYU
2	18	Jack McMahon	G	United States	Rochester Royals	St. John's
2	19	Jim Holstein	F	United States	Minneapolis Lakers	Cincinnati

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	College
3	25	Dick Bunt	G	United States	New York Knicks	NYU
4	37	Herm Hedderick	G	United States	Boston Celtics	Canisius
4	38	Ronnie MacGilvray	G	United States	Rochester Royals	St. John's
4		Blaine Denning	G	United States	Baltimore Bullets	Lawrence Tech
5	40	George McLeod	F	United States	Milwaukee Hawks	TCU
5	43	Tom Brennan	F	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	Villanova
5	44	Gene Rhodes	G	United States	Indianapolis Olympians	Western Kentucky
5	47	Ken McBride	G/F	United States	Syracuse Nationals	Maryland State
6	59	Jim Holstein	G/F	United States	Minneapolis Lakers	Cincinnati
7	61	Bob Priddy	F	United States	Baltimore Bullets	New Mexico A&M
7	64	Skippy Whitaker	G	United States	Indianapolis Olympians	Kentucky
8	73	Moe Radovich	G	United States	Philadelphia Warriors	Wyoming
8	75	Dick Surhoff	F	United States	New York Knicks	Long Island
10	90	Gene Conley	F/C	United States	Boston Celtics	Washington State
11	93	Bob Peterson	F	United States	Baltimore Bullets	Oregon
11	96	Carl McNulty	G	United States	Minneapolis Lakers	Purdue
12	97	Jim Walsh	F	United States	Baltimore Bullets	Stanford

Player	Pos.	Nationality	School/club team
Fred Christ	G	United States	Fordham
Pete Darcey	C	United States	Oklahoma State
Don Hanrahan	F	United States	Loyola Chicago
Bob Naber	F	United States	Louisville

v t e 1952 NBA draft
Territorial pick	Bill Mlkvy
First round	Mark Workman Jim Baechtold Dick Groat Joe Dean Ralph Polson Bill Stauffer Bob Lochmueller Chuck Darling Clyde Lovellette
Second round	Eddie Miller Blaine Denning Don Meineke Walt Davis Bob Zawoluk Roy Belliveau Jim Iverson Jim Brasco Bryant Ivey Tom Ackerman

v t e 1952–53 NBA season by team
1952 NBA draft All-Star Game Playoffs Finals Transactions
Eastern	Baltimore Boston New York Philadelphia Syracuse
Western	Fort Wayne Indianapolis Milwaukee Minneapolis Rochester

Pos.	G	F	C
Position	Guard	Forward	Center

Draft selections and draftee career notes

Key

Draft

Other picks

Notable undrafted players

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