page_title: 1967 NBA draft
section_title: Draft
hierarchical_section_title: 1967 NBA draft / Draft
caption_attribution_description: Phil Jackson, an NBA coach with 9 championships, of the Los Angeles Lakers
context_page_description: The 1967 NBA draft was the 21st annual draft of the National Basketball Association. The draft was held on May 3 and 4, 1967 before the 1967–68 season. In this draft, 12 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was eligible for selection. If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his college class graduated. The first two picks in the draft belonged to the teams that finished last in each division, with the order determined by a coin flip. The Detroit Pistons won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the Baltimore Bullets were awarded the second pick. The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season. Five teams that had the best records in previous season were not awarded second round draft picks. Two expansion franchises, the Seattle SuperSonics and the San Diego Rockets, took part in the NBA Draft for the first time and were assigned the sixth and seventh pick in the first round, along with the last two picks of each subsequent round.
caption: Phil Jackson was selected 17th overall by the New York Knicks.
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