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1949–50 NBA season

Index 1949–50 NBA season

The 1949–50 NBA season was the inaugural season of the National Basketball Association, which was created in 1949 by merger of the 3-year-old BAA and 12-year-old NBL. [1]

42 relations: Al Cervi, Alex Groza, All-NBA Team, Anderson Packers, Atlanta Hawks, Basketball, Basketball Association of America, Bob Davies, Bob Feerick, Chicago Stags, Cliff Barker, Curly Armstrong, Detroit Pistons, Dick McGuire, Dolph Schayes, Frank Brian, Fred Schaus, George Mikan, Howie Shannon, Indianapolis Jets, Indianapolis Olympians, Jim Pollard, Los Angeles Lakers, Max Zaslofsky, Murray Mendenhall, National Basketball Association, National Basketball League (United States), New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Playoffs, Providence Steamrollers, Ralph Beard, Red Auerbach, Sacramento Kings, Sheboygan Red Skins, Washington Capitols, Waterloo Hawks, 1946–47 BAA season, 1947–48 BAA season, 1948–49 BAA season, 1950 NBA Finals, 1950 NBA Playoffs.

Al Cervi

Alfred Nicholas Cervi (February 12, 1917 – November 9, 2009) was an American professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball League (NBL) and National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Alex Groza

Alex John Groza (October 7, 1926 – January 21, 1995) was an American professional basketball player from Martins Ferry, Ohio who was banned from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for life in 1951 for point shaving.

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All-NBA Team

The All-NBA Team is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) honor bestowed on the best players in the league following every NBA season.

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Anderson Packers

The Anderson Packers, also known as the Anderson Duffey Packers and the Chief Anderson Meat Packers, were a professional basketball team based in Anderson, Indiana, in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Atlanta Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at Philips Arena. The team's origins can be traced to the establishment of the Buffalo Bisons in 1946 in Buffalo, New York, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL) owned by Ben Kerner and Leo Ferris. After 38 days in Buffalo, the team moved to Moline, Illinois, where they were renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. In 1949, they joined the NBA as part of the merger between the NBL and the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and briefly had Red Auerbach as coach. In 1951, Kerner moved the team to Milwaukee, where they changed their name to the Hawks. Kerner and the team moved again in 1955 to St. Louis, where they won their only NBA championship in 1958 and qualified to play in the NBA Finals in 1957, 1960 and 1961. The Hawks played the Boston Celtics in all four of their trips to the NBA Finals. The St. Louis Hawks moved to Atlanta in 1968, when Kerner sold the franchise to Thomas Cousins and former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders. The Hawks currently own the second-longest drought (behind the Sacramento Kings) of not winning an NBA championship at 60 seasons. The franchise's lone NBA championship, as well as all four NBA Finals appearances, occurred when the team was based in St. Louis. Meanwhile, they went 48 years without advancing past the second round of the playoffs in any format, until finally breaking through in 2015. Much of the failure they have experienced in the postseason can be traced back to their poor history in the NBA draft. Since 1980, the Hawks have drafted only four players who have been chosen to play in an NBA All-Star Game (Doc Rivers, Kevin Willis, Al Horford, and Jeff Teague). Dominique Wilkins was actually selected by the Utah Jazz and traded to the Hawks a few months after the draft. Horford and Teague are the only All-Star Hawks to have been drafted since Willis was selected in 1984, and Horford is also the only first-rounder the Hawks selected in their nine-year playoff drought to play in an NBA All-Star Game.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Basketball Association of America

The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946.

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Bob Davies

Robert Edris Davies (January 15, 1920 – April 22, 1990) was an American professional basketball player.

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Bob Feerick

Robert Joseph Feerick (January 2, 1920 – June 8, 1976) was an American professional basketball player, coach and general manager.

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Chicago Stags

The Chicago Stags were a National Basketball Association team based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Cliff Barker

Clifford "Cliff" Eugene Barker (January 15, 1921 – March 17, 1998) was a basketball player from the United States, who won the gold medal with the USA national basketball team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom and two national championships at the University of Kentucky.

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Curly Armstrong

Paul Carlyle "Curly" Armstrong (November 1, 1918 – June 6, 1983) was an American professional basketball player.

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Detroit Pistons

The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Dick McGuire

Richard Joseph McGuire (January 26, 1926 – February 3, 2010) was an American professional basketball player and coach.

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Dolph Schayes

Adolph Schayes (May 19, 1928 – December 10, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Frank Brian

Frank Sands Brian (May 1, 1923 – May 14, 2017) was an American professional basketball player.

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Fred Schaus

Frederick Appleton Schaus (June 30, 1925 – February 10, 2010) was an American basketball player, head coach and athletic director for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, player for the National Basketball Association's Fort Wayne Pistons and New York Knicks, general manager and head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, head coach of Purdue University basketball, and a member of the NCAA Basketball Committee.

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George Mikan

George Lawrence Mikan Jr. (June 18, 1924 – June 1, 2005), nicknamed Mr.

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Howie Shannon

Howard Shannon (June 10, 1923 – August 16, 1995) was an American basketball player and coach.

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Indianapolis Jets

The Indianapolis Jets were a Basketball Association of America team based in Indianapolis.

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Indianapolis Olympians

The Indianapolis Olympians were a founding National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Jim Pollard

James Clifford Pollard (July 9, 1922 – January 22, 1993) was an American professional basketball player and coach.

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Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.

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Max Zaslofsky

Max "Slats" Zaslofsky (December 7, 1925 – October 15, 1985) was an American professional basketball player and coach.

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Murray Mendenhall

Murray Joseph Mendenhall (March 5, 1898 – July 27, 1972) was an American basketball coach.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Basketball League (United States)

The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional men's basketball league in the United States established in 1937.

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New York Knicks

The New York Knickerbockers, commonly referred to as the Knicks, are an American professional basketball team based in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.

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Philadelphia 76ers

The Philadelphia 76ers (also commonly known as the Sixers) are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

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Playoffs

The playoffs, play-offs, postseason and/or finals of a sports league are a competition played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade.

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Providence Steamrollers

The Providence Steamrollers were a Basketball Association of America team based in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Ralph Beard

Ralph Milton Beard Jr. (December 2, 1927 – November 29, 2007) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player.

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Red Auerbach

Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20, 1917 – October 28, 2006) was an American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Boston Celtics.

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Sacramento Kings

The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California.

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Sheboygan Red Skins

The Sheboygan Red Skins (or Redskins) were a professional basketball team based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

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Washington Capitols

The Washington Capitols were a charter Basketball Association of America (forerunner of the National Basketball Association) team based in Washington, D.C. The team was coached from 1946 to 1949 by NBA Hall of Famer Red Auerbach.

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Waterloo Hawks

The Waterloo Hawks were a National Basketball League and National Basketball Association team based in Waterloo, Iowa.

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1946–47 BAA season

The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America.

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1947–48 BAA season

The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America.

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1948–49 BAA season

The 1948–49 BAA season was the third and final season of the Basketball Association of America.

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1950 NBA Finals

The 1950 NBA Finals was the championship round of the inaugural National Basketball Association 1949–50 season.

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1950 NBA Playoffs

The 1950 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the inaugural National Basketball Association 1949–50 season.

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1949-50 NBA season, 1949-50 National Basketball Association season, 1949–50 BAA season.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949–50_NBA_season

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