1967 NBA Expansion Draft
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 140 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5085-7133-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1967 NBA Expansion Draft was the third expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on May 1, 1967, so that the newly founded San Diego Rockets and Seattle SuperSonics could acquire players for the upcoming 1967–68 season. Seattle and San Diego had been awarded the expansion teams on December 20, 1966 and January 11, 1967 respectively. The Rockets moved to Houston, Texas in 1971 and are currently known as the Houston Rockets. The SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2008 and are currently known as the Oklahoma City Thunder. In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league. Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected. The Rockets and the Sonics both selected fifteen unprotected players each, while the ten other NBA...