to draft Al Fleming. On May 23, 1975, the Phoenix Suns acquired Paul Westphal, 1975 and 1976 second-round picks from the Boston Celtics in exchange for Charlie Scott. The Suns used the pick to draft Butch Feher. On December 8, 1975, the Chicago Bulls acquired a 1977 second-round pick and a 1976 third-round pick from the Kansas City Kings in exchange for Matt Guokas. The Bulls used the pick to draft Lars Hansen. Early entrants College underclassmen The following college basketball players successfully applied for early draft entrance. Norm Cook – F, Kansas (junior) Charles Daniels – G, Rice (junior) Adrian Dantley – F, Notre Dame (junior) Johnny Davis – G, Dayton (junior) Jack Dorsey – F, Georgia (sophomore) Edward Douglas – F, Rutgers–Newark (sophomore) Daryl Gainey – F, Fairmont State (junior) Reggie Glasgow – G, UC Irvine (junior) Loy Hudson – F, Albany State (junior) Warnel Lamb – F, Lehigh County CC (sophomore) Lonnie Shelton – F, Oregon State (junior) Richard Washington – F, UCLA (junior) Larry Wright – G, Grambling State (junior) ABA dispersal draft On August 5, 1976, the NBA hosted a dispersal draft to select players from the Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis, the American Basketball Association (ABA) franchises that were not included in the ABA–NBA merger. The eighteen NBA teams and the four ABA teams that joined the NBA, the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets and San Antonio Spurs, were allowed to participate in the draft. The teams selected in reverse order of their win–loss percentage in the previous NBA and ABA seasons. The team that made a selection must pay a certain price for the signing rights to the player, which are set by the league's committee. The money from the draft was used to help the four ABA teams that merged with the NBA to pay off some of their obligations to the two folded ABA franchises, the Colonels and the Spirits. The team that made a selection must assume the player's ABA contract. Players who were not selected would become free agents. Twenty players from the Colonels and the Spirits were available for the draft. Eleven were selected in the first round and the twelfth player was selected in the second round. Eight players were not selected and thus became a free agent. The Chicago Bulls used the first pick to select five-time ABA All-Star Artis Gilmore with