John Elwood Schweitz, is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he played in two NBA seasons, for which American professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington?
John Schweitz John Elwood Schweitz (born April 19, 1960) is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A 6'6" (1.98 m) and 210 lb (95 kg) shooting guard, Schweitz, from Waterloo, New York and the University of Richmond, was selected by the Boston Celtics with the 23rd pick in the 6th round (138 overall) of the 1982 NBA Draft. He played in two NBA seasons, for the Seattle SuperSonics and Detroit Pistons.
1980 NBA Expansion Draft The 1980 NBA Expansion Draft was the seventh expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on May 28, 1980, so that the newly founded Dallas Mavericks could acquire players for the upcoming 1980–81 season. Dallas had been awarded the expansion team on February 3, 1980. In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league. Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected. In this draft, each of the twenty-two other NBA teams had protected eight players from their roster and the Mavericks selected twenty-two unprotected players, one from each team.