NBA Bullets Draft Monroe, Small Colleges' Top Scorer

May 05, 1967

New York -- The Baltimore Bullets today selected Earl Monroe, the nation’s top scorer last season and a little All-America in the National Basketball Association’s college draft.

The Bullets then announced they had signed the 6-foot-3 inch Monroe, had also had been drafted by the Pittsburgh club of the newly-formed American Basketball Association. Monroe, of Winston-Salem State, N.C., had averaged 41.5 points a game last season to lead the NCAA’s Small-College Division Scorers.

Jimmy Walker, No. 1 earlier, the Providence College (R.I.) All-America, was drafted and signed by the Detroit Pistons.

In the abbreviated second round , only seven players were selected. By agreement this normally is limited to the five teams finishing with the poorest win-lost records, but the two expansion teams were added.

Source: Associated Press