Thursday, March 28; 1974
University Daily Kansan
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Portland Gets 1st Shot at Walton
Kansan Staff Photo by CARL DAVAZ
Walton Laughs It Up During His Final Game
NBA Commissioner J. Walter Kennedy flipped the coin and the call was made by Irv Kosloff, president of the Philadelphia 76ers.
The flip was to decide whether Philadelphia or Portland, who finished the 1973-74 season in last place in their conferences, would get first pick.
watton, the 6-foot-11 UCLA center, was expected to be the No. 1 choice. He said previously he wanted to play on the West Coast; San Diego of the rival American Basketball Association gained rights to him in that league a year ago.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Portland's Trail Blazer won the coin flip yesterday and the right for first choice in the National Basketball Association draft. That could mean negotiating rights to UCLA's Bill Walton, twice the nation's player of the year.
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Earlier yesterday, the NBA turned down bids to put an expansion club in San Diego.
Yesterday's loss was Portland's fourth consecutive participation in the flip. The Trail Blazers lost the call in 1971 to Cleveland, which tabbed Notre Dame's Austin Carr. Portland then took UCLA's Sidney Wicks.
"The owners of the NBA this afternoon voted not to further expand for the 1974-75 season."
He also said New Orleans, which won a franchise a month ago, would join the Central Division, which includes Capital, Cleveland, Atlanta and Houston.
In 1972, Portland had its only previous right call in the toss and chose LaRue Martin from Loyola of Chicago. Buffalo then chose North Carolina's Bob McAdoo, who went on to star as the NBA's leading field goal percentage shooter.
Last year. Portland lost the flip to Philadelphia, which picked Olympic star Andrew Garcia.
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