List of first overall NBA draft picks

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1. All statistics are taken from the players' respective rookie season unless otherwise noted.
2. Clifton McNeely never played professional basketball. Instead, he became a basketball coach for Pampa High School in Tex
3. Howie Shannon was the first overall pick, although Ed Macauley and Vern Mikkelsen had been taken before the draft as the
4. Charlie Share did not play in the 1950–51 season. His rookie statistics are from the 1951–52 season. Share was the first
5. Gene Melchiorre never played in the NBA. He was banned for life from the NBA due to his involvement in the 1951 college
6. Mark Workman was the first overall pick, although Bill Mlkvy had been taken before the draft as the Philadelphia Warrior
7. Ray Felix was the first overall pick, although Ernie Beck and Walter Dukes had been taken before the draft as their team
8. Dick Ricketts was the first overall pick, although Dick Garmaker and Tom Gola had been taken before the draft as their t
9. Sihugo Green was the first overall pick, although Tom Heinsohn had been taken before the draft as the Boston Celtics' te
10. Elgin Baylor was the first overall pick, although Guy Rodgers had been taken before the draft as the Philadelphia Warrio
11. Bob Boozer was the first overall pick, although Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Ferry had been taken before the draft as their
12. Although Oscar Robertson was drafted as a territorial pick by the Cincinnati Royals, he was also recognized as the first
13. Bill McGill was the first overall pick, although Dave DeBusschere and Jerry Lucas had been taken before the draft as the
14. Art Heyman was the first overall pick, although Tom Thacker had been taken before the draft as the Cincinnati Royals' te
15. Jim Barnes was the first overall pick, although Walt Hazzard and George Wilson had been taken before the draft as their
16. Fred Hetzel was the first overall pick, although Bill Bradley, Bill Buntin and Gail Goodrich had been taken before the d
17. Before the 1971–72 season, Lew Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
18. David Thompson played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) in the 1975–76 season and did not play in the NBA unt
19. Hakeem Olajuwon was born in Nigeria, but became a naturalized United States citizen in 1993. When he arrived to the Unit
20. Patrick Ewing was born in Jamaica, but had become a naturalized United States citizen while at Georgetown. He represente