1983 NBA draft

1983 NBA draft
General information
Date(s)	June 28, 1983
Location	Felt Forum, New York City, New York
Network(s) (US)	USA Network and ESPN
First selection	Ralph Sampson, Houston Rockets
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The 1983 NBA draft took place on June 28, 1983, in New York City. A total of 226 players were selected over 10 rounds by the league's 23 teams. At least four players from the 1983 draft now serve as coaches. One serves at a major-college program—Craig Robinson (who never played in the NBA) at Oregon State—and three in the NBA—Doc Rivers for the Los Angeles Clippers, Randy Wittman for the Washington Wizards, and Byron Scott for the Los Angeles Lakers. While Scott won the Coach of the Year award in 2008, Rivers won an NBA Championship with the Celtics on that same year (it could be also noted that Rivers won that award prior to Scott, in 2000, while he was still coaching the Orlando Magic). Robinson, who led the Beavers to the 2009 College Basketball Invitational title, has an additional claim to fame as the older brother of current First Lady Michelle Obama. Sidney Lowe coached at North Carolina Statefrom 2006 to 2011.

Manute Bol was selected in the 5th round by the Clippers, but the NBA rejected the pick on technicalities. Manute had never filed draft paperwork, and his passport listed him at 19 (at the time, 19 years was too young to be drafted).

* compensation for draft choices traded away by Ted Stepien

These picks have played at least one game in the NBA but were not selected in the first or second rounds.

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