• The 1948–49 BAA season was the third and final season of the Basketball Association of America. The 1949 BAA Playoffs ended with the Minneapolis Lakers...
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  • The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946. Following its third season, 1948–49...
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  • The 1949 BAA Finals was the championship round following the Basketball Association of America (BAA)'s 1948–49 season, its third and last. Later that...
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  • The 1948 BAA draft was the second annual draft of the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later merged with the National Basketball League (NBL)...
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  • The 1949 BAA draft was the third annual draft of the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The draft was held on March 21, 1949, before the 1949–50...
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  • After the 1948–49 season, its twelfth, it merged with the Basketball Association of America (BAA) to create the National Basketball Association (NBA). Five...
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  • NBA was created on August 3, 1949, with the merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL). The league later...
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  • joined the National Basketball Association when the NBL was absorbed by the Basketball Association of America to create the NBA for the 1949–50 season. The...
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  • The Providence Steamrollers were a Basketball Association of America team based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of 2024, the Steamrollers were the last...
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    Division champions. From 1946 through 1949, when the league was known as the Basketball Association of America (BAA), the playoffs were a three-stage...
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    North America. The NBA was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The league adopted its current name at the start of the 1949–50 season...
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  • Basketball Association of America (BAA), and the original American Basketball Association (ABA). All of these leagues contributed to the formation of...
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  • National Basketball League (NBL), 1937–1949; merged with the Basketball Association of America to become the National Basketball Association. World Professional...
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  • The 1949 BAA playoffs was the postseason tournament following the Basketball Association of America 1948–49 season, its third and last. Later that year...
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  • Association of America (BAA) in 1946 and took its current name in 1949. The histories of NBA franchises that were also members of the American Basketball League...
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  • The National Basketball Association was established in 1949 by merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League but...
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    6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). It adopted the name National Basketball Association at the start of the 1949–50 season when it...
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    joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1948. The NBL and BAA merged to become the NBA in 1949, and the Pistons became part of the merged...
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  • The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America. The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule...
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    National Basketball Association (NBA), established in 1946, grew to a multibillion-dollar enterprise by the end of the century, and basketball became an...
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    and 1949 were held by the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The Basketball Association of America became the National Basketball Association after...
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  • 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). It adopted the name National Basketball Association at the start of the 1949–50 season when it...
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  • following the 1949 merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League that created the National Basketball Association (NBA)....
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  • Washington Capitols were a former Basketball Association of America (forerunner of the National Basketball Association) team based in Washington, D.C. from...
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  • Baltimore Bullets (1944–1954) (category Basketball Association of America teams)
    professional basketball team based in Baltimore. The Bullets competed in the American Basketball League (1944–1947), the Basketball Association of America (1947–1949)...
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  • honor the 25th anniversary of the founding of the National Basketball Association (NBA) as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946. It was the...
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  • Indianapolis Jets (category Basketball Association of America teams)
    The Indianapolis Jets were a Basketball Association of America (BAA) team based in Indianapolis. They were founded as the Indianapolis Kautskys and used...
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  • championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s inaugural 1949–50 season following the merger of the National Basketball League (NBL) and...
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    Chuck Connors (category American men's basketball players)
    both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1946–48). With a 40-year film...
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  • (2000–2002) PBLA-Professional Basketball League of America (1947–1948) WBA-Western Basketball Association (1978–79) WBL-World Basketball League (1988–1992) CBA-Continental...
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