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Collins Chosen First

Parkhill Picked By Portland In NBA Draft

By BILL BERNO

Barry Parkhill Goes To The Hoop

Barry Parkhill became the
second Cavalier in two years to
be picked by the Portland
Trailblazers as the NBA team
picked him with their first
choice in the pro basketball
draft yesterday.

Last year the Trailblazers
chose Cav center Scott
McCandlish in the eleventh
round of the draft, but this
year the Blazers wasted no
time in taking Parkhill.

The Cavalier All-American
was the 15th player picked in
the draft. Portland had
originally had the second pick
in the draft, but early
yesterday morning traded that
choice to the Cleveland
Cavaliers for center Rick
Roberson and forward John
Johnson.

As part of that deal, the
'Blazers also obtained the 15th
spot in the first round, which
had earlier been given to the
Cavaliers by the Los Angeles
Lakers in a trade two years
ago.

Parkhill was one of the first
half-dozen guards drafted.
Philadelphia's 76ers picked
Doug Collins as the first player
chosen, after their attempts to
trade the choice to the Chicago
Bulls fell through.

Cleveland, with the choice
obtained from Portland, then
took center Jim Brewer of
Minnesota, a 6-9 leaper who
will probably play forward in
the NBA.

Buffalo, which has drafted
frontcourtmen the past two
years, went for a playmaker
and chose Ernie DiGregorio of
Providence, a 6-0 wizard with
the ball.

Seattle's Supersonics picked
fourth and chose the only real
unknown in the first round,
6-10 Mike Green of Louisiana
Tech, the nation's
second-leading small college
scorer last season.

Defending NBA champion
Los Angeles Lakers, with their
choice form Cleveland, picked
American University star
Kermit Washington, one of
only six players in collegiate
history to average 20 points
and 20 rebounds a game for an
entire career.

In a slight surprise,
Houston's Rockets chose Long
Beach State's Ed Ratleff. The
Rockets were supposed to be
looking for a big man, and
boast a relatively solid
backcourt.

Kansas City-Omaha, looking
for a big man to complement
Nate "Tiny" Archibald,
decided on 6-9 Ron Behagen,
Brewer's teammate from
Minnesota. Phoneix also opted
for a power forward, picking
Olympian Mike Bantom of St.
Joe's.

Atlanta's Hawks, due to a
trade made earlier, had two
consecutive first round picks.
The Hawks took two big men;
John Brown, a 6-7 forward
from Missouri, and 6-9 Dwight
Jones of Houston, another
Olympian.

Golden State's Warriors said
all along they wanted a good
guard, and crossed the country
to take South Carolina's Kevin
Joyce, a 6-3 playmaker and
shooter.

The Chicago Bulls, weak
only at center, grabbed Iowa's
seven-footer Kevin Kunnert.
Kunnert and Brown have the
advantage of being familiar
with the NBA's 24-second
clock. Both played in the Big
Eight, which used a 30-second
clock this year.

Other ACC players picked
in the draft include Maryland's
Jim O'Brien and Bob Bodell.
O'Brien was also taken by the
Trailblazers in the third round,
and Bodell was the tenth pick
of the Seattle Supersonics.

Danny Traylor, South
Carolina's seven-foot center,
was taken in the fifth round by
the Capitol Bullets.

Of course, it is hard to say
how many of the players
picked by the NBA will
actually sign and suit up with
that league next year. This
morning, the American
Basketball Association will
announce the selections made

during its "secret draft" several
months ago.

The ABA draft will include
underclassmen, a feature that
the NBA system locks.
However, the NBA does permit
a player to apply for the draft
as a "hardship case," and 11
players were made eligible for
the draft.