John Erickson

John Elmer Erickson

Born: June 19, 1927 in Rockford, Illinois

Died: March 18, 2020

College: Beloit College

Franchises

In some cases the starting date and/or ending date for an executive could not be found, so conservative estimates are used in their place.
Therefore, transactions from the beginning and/or end of an executive's tenure with a particular franchise may be missing from the register below.

June 4, 1968: Selected Charlie Paulk (1st round, 7th pick), Eugene Moore (2nd round, 22nd pick), Sam Williams (3rd round, 35th pick), Greg Smith (4th round, 50th pick), Joe Franklin (5th round, 63rd pick), Fred Smith (6th round, 78th pick), Tom Kondla (7th round, 91st pick), Elburt Miller (8th round, 106th pick), Cliff Berger (9th round, 119th pick), Eugene Jones (10th round, 134th pick), Brad Luchini (11th round, 146th pick) and Dave Miller (12th round, 159th pick) in the 1968 NBA Draft.

September 12, 1968: Traded John Arthurs, cash and a future 2nd round draft pick to the Phoenix Suns for Dick Cunningham.

October 8, 1968: Traded Johnny Egan to the Los Angeles Lakers for a future draft pick.

November 23, 1968: Traded Bob Love and Bob Weiss to the Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson.

January 1, 1969: Traded Dave Gambee to the Detroit Pistons for Rich Niemann and cash.

January 31, 1969: Traded Fred Hetzel to the Cincinnati Royals for Zaid Abdul-Aziz and cash.

April 7, 1969: Selected Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1st round, 1st pick), Bob Greacen (2nd round, 17th pick), Harley Swift (3rd round, 31st pick), Bob Dandridge (4th round, 45th pick), Ken Heitz (5th round, 59th pick), John Arthurs (6th round, 73rd pick), Bill Keller (7th round, 87th pick), John Schell (8th round, 101st pick), Jim Satalin (9th round, 115th pick), Willie Brown (10th round, 129th pick), Bob Presley (11th round, 143rd pick), Jack Lutz (12th round, 157th pick), Leo Osgood (13th round, 170th pick), Waymon Stewart (14th round, 181st pick), Stan Wlodarczyk (15th round, 190th pick), Bill Voight (16th round, 196th pick), Lynn Phillips (17th round, 202nd pick) and Ken Hall (18th round, 208th pick) in the 1969 NBA Draft.

September 18, 1969: Acquired player rights to Freddie Crawford from the Los Angeles Lakers.

March 23, 1970: Selected Gary Freeman (1st round, 16th pick), Bill Zopf (2nd round, 33rd pick), Marv Winkler (3rd round, 50th pick), Virgle Fredrick (4th round, 67th pick), Mike Grosso (5th round, 84th pick), Willie Watson (6th round, 101st pick), John Rinka (7th round, 118th pick), Jim Sarno (8th round, 135th pick), Joe Hamilton (9th round, 152nd pick) and Bob Seemer (10th round, 169th pick) in the 1970 NBA Draft.

April 21, 1970: Traded Charlie Paulk and Flynn Robinson to the Cincinnati Royals for Oscar Robertson.