1951 NBA Draft
First pick
Gene Melchiorre
Baltimore Bullets · Bradley
87 picks · 12 rounds
NBA Draft picks
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| No. | Player | Team | From | Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Territorial picks | ||||
| — |
Whitey Skoog
territorial
|
MNL | Minnesota | G |
| Round 1 | ||||
| 1 |
Gene Melchiorre
|
BAL | Bradley | — |
| 2 | TCB | Brigham Young | F | |
| 3 |
Marcus Freiberger
|
INO | Oklahoma | — |
| 4 | FTW | Niagara | G | |
| 5 | SYR | NW Louisiana | F | |
| 6 | NYK | Harvard | F | |
| 7 | BOS | Kansas State | G | |
| 8 | ROC | North Carolina State | G | |
| 9 | PHW | Illinois | G | |
| Round 2 | ||||
| 10 |
Jack Stone
|
BAL | Kansas State | — |
| 11 |
Bill Gossett
|
TCB | Colorado A&M | — |
| 12 |
Scotty Steagall
|
INO | Millikin | — |
| 13 | FTW | Syracuse | G | |
| 14 | SYR | LeMoyne | F | |
| 15 |
Roland Minson
|
NYK | Brigham Young | — |
| 16 |
Bill Garrett
|
BOS | Indiana | — |
| 17 | ROC | Northwestern | F | |
| 18 | PHW | Tulane | G | |
| 19 | MNL | Kansas State | F | |
| Round 3 | ||||
| 20 |
Bill Mann
|
BAL | Bradley | — |
| 21 |
Ron Bontemps
|
TCB | Beloit | — |
| 22 |
Glenn Kammeyer
|
INO | Central Missouri State | — |
| 23 | FTW | Northwestern | G | |
| 24 | SYR | DePaul | G | |
| 25 |
Joe Luchi
|
NYK | Cincinnati | — |
| 26 |
John Furlong
|
BOS | Pepperdine | — |
| 27 | ROC | St. Bonaventure | G | |
| 28 |
Bob Schloss
|
PHW | Georgia | — |
| 29 |
Bob Payne
|
MNL | Oregon State | — |
| Round 4 | ||||
| 30 |
Bill Hagler
|
BAL | California | — |
| 31 | TCB | South Carolina | C | |
| 32 | INO | Indiana | G | |
| 33 |
Herb Hargett
|
FTW | Mississippi State | — |
| 34 |
Paul Horvath
|
SYR | North Carolina State | — |
| 35 |
Lloyd Sandstrom
|
NYK | St. Thomas | — |
| 36 |
Bob Barnett
|
BOS | Evansville | — |
| 37 | ROC | Bradley | C | |
| 38 |
Jud Milhon
|
PHW | Ohio Wesleyan | — |
| 39 |
Gale McArthur
|
MNL | Oklahoma A&M | — |
| Round 5 | ||||
| 40 |
Leroy Ishman
|
BAL | American | — |
| 41 |
Bob Sakel
|
TCB | Evansville | — |
| 42 |
Bob Pierce
|
INO | Nebraska | — |
| 43 |
Leo Johnson
|
FTW | Arizona | — |
| 44 |
Glen Anderson
|
SYR | Colorado A&M | — |
| 45 |
Tom Smith
|
NYK | St. Peter's | — |
| 46 |
Rip Gish
|
BOS | Western Kentucky | — |
| 47 |
Dan Bagley
|
ROC | Notre Dame | — |
| 48 | PHW | Princeton | G | |
| 49 |
Leo Vander Kuy
|
MNL | Michigan | — |
| Round 6 | ||||
| 50 |
Glen Duggins
|
BAL | Utah | — |
| 51 | TCB | Drake | G | |
| 52 |
Marv Johnson
|
INO | Wheaton | — |
| 53 |
Frank Clasbeek
|
FTW | Iowa | — |
| 54 |
Bob Wheeler
|
SYR | Idaho | — |
| 55 | NYK | St. John's | G | |
| 56 | BOS | St. Francis (NY) | G | |
| 57 |
Jim Ove
|
ROC | Valparaiso | — |
| 58 |
Bob Swails
|
PHW | Indiana Central | — |
| 59 |
Deward Dopson
|
MNL | Arkansas Polytechnic | — |
| Round 7 | ||||
| 60 |
Tom Riach
|
BAL | Southern California | — |
| 61 |
Bob Ambler
|
TCB | Arkansas | — |
| 62 |
Ted Beach
|
INO | Illinois | — |
| 63 |
Jim Ramstead
|
FTW | Stanford | — |
| 64 |
Roy Reardon
|
SYR | St. Francis (NY) | — |
| 65 |
Sid Ryen
|
NYK | Denver | — |
| 66 |
John Azary
|
BOS | Columbia | — |
| 67 |
John Brown
|
ROC | Southern Methodist | — |
| 68 | PHW | King's | G | |
| 69 |
Ed Head
|
MNL | Kansas State | — |
| Round 8 | ||||
| 70 |
Bill Harper
|
BAL | Oregon State | — |
| 71 |
Aaron Preece
|
TCB | Bradley | — |
| 72 |
George Kelly
|
INO | Vanderbilt | — |
| 73 |
John Manning
|
FTW | Duquesne | — |
| 74 |
Tom Jockle
|
SYR | Syracuse | — |
| 75 |
Hugo Kappler
|
BOS | North Carolina State | — |
| 76 |
George Davidson
|
ROC | Lafayette | — |
| 77 | PHW | La Salle | G | |
| Round 9 | ||||
| 78 |
Bob Crowe
|
BAL | San Jose State | — |
| 79 |
Wayne Tucker
|
TCB | Colorado | — |
| 80 |
Ray Kirkwasser
|
SYR | Ithaca | — |
| 81 |
Hugh Faulkner
|
PHW | Pepperdine | — |
| Round 10 | ||||
| 82 |
Dan Torrey
|
BAL | Oregon State | — |
| 83 |
John DeWitt
|
TCB | Texas A&M | — |
| 84 |
Paul Gerwin
|
PHW | Cornell | — |
| Round 11 | ||||
| 85 |
Clem Pavilonis
|
BAL | DePaul | — |
| Round 12 | ||||
| 86 |
John Burke
|
BAL | Springfield (MA) | — |
Where the number is missing, the old site did not keep the pick order: those picks are listed alphabetically.