1949–50 NBA season












































































1949–50 NBA season
League National Basketball Association
Sport Basketball
Duration October 29, 1949 – March 19, 1950
March 20–April 6, 1950 (Playoffs)
April 8–23, 1950 (Finals)
Number of games 68
Number of teams 17
Draft
Top draft pick Howie Shannon
Picked by Providence Steamrollers
Regular season
Top scorer
George Mikan (Minneapolis)
Playoffs

Eastern champions		 Syracuse Nationals
  Eastern runners-up New York Knicks

Central champions		 Minneapolis Lakers
  Central runners-up Fort Wayne Pistons

Western champions		 Anderson Packers
  Western runners-up Indianapolis Olympians
Finals
Champions Minneapolis Lakers
  Runners-up Syracuse Nationals
NBA seasons

← 1948–49

1950–51 →


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. The postseason tournament at its conclusion, the 1950 NBA Playoffs, ended with the Minneapolis Lakers winning the NBA Championship, beating the Syracuse Nationals 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals.


Commonly 1949–50 is counted as the fourth NBA season. It recognizes the three BAA seasons (1946–47, 1947–48 and 1948–49) as part of its own history, sometimes without comment.[1]




Contents






  • 1 Notable occurrences


  • 2 Final standings


    • 2.1 Eastern Division


    • 2.2 Central Division


    • 2.3 Western Division




  • 3 Statistics leaders


  • 4 NBA awards


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Notable occurrences



  • The Indianapolis Jets and Providence Steamrollers folded after the 1948–49 season, leaving the BAA with 10 teams. Excluding the Jets, three of those teams had joined the BAA from the National Basketball League (NBL) one year before.

  • Seven NBL franchises – six established teams (Anderson, Denver, Sheboygan, Syracuse, Tri-Cities, and Waterloo) and one expansion team (Indianapolis Olympians) – joined with the ten surviving BAA teams to create the National Basketball Association with 17 teams.


































Coaching changes
Offseason
Team
 1948–49 coach
 1949–50 coach

Fort Wayne Pistons
Curly Armstrong
Murray Mendenhall

Indianapolis Olympians
 Burl Fiddle
Cliff Barker

Washington Capitols
Red Auerbach
Bob Feerick
In-season
Team
 Outgoing coach
 Incoming coach
N/A


Final standings


In this inaugural NBA season only, the ten surviving teams from BAA 1949 played a heavy schedule of games with each other and a light schedule with the seven NBL participants in the merger that created the league; and vice versa. The BAA 1949 teams were all except Syracuse in the East and all five in the Central Division; none in the West.[2]



Eastern Division

















































































Eastern Division

  • v

  • t

  • e
W
L
PCT
GB
Home
Road
Neutral
Div

x-Syracuse Nationals
 51 13 .797 – 31–1 15–12 5–0 9–1

x-New York Knicks
 40 28 .588 13 19–10 18–16 3–2 20–6

x-Washington Capitols
 32 36 .471 21 21–13 10–20 1–3 13–13

x-Philadelphia Warriors
 26 42 .382 25 15–15 8–23 3–4 9–17
Baltimore Bullets 25 43 .368 26 16–15 8–25 1–3 8–18
Boston Celtics 22 46 .324 29 12–14 5–28 5–4 11–15

Syracuse played a heavy schedule of 44 games against Western Division teams: on average just over seven games each, same as they played each other (35 to 37 games against five Western rivals). The Western Division teams were generally weaker on the court; none of the teams there won half of its games played outside the division. Yet Syracuse won at the same 80% rate against the East and Central (16–4) or against the West (35–9).[2]



Central Division






































































Central Division

  • v

  • t

  • e
W
L
PCT
GB
Home
Road
Neutral
Div

x-Minneapolis Lakers
 51 17 .750 – 30–1 18–16 3–0 16–8

x-Rochester Royals
 51 17 .750 – 33–1 17–6 1–0 15–9

x-Fort Wayne Pistons
 40 28 .588 11 28–6 12–22 – 14–10

x-Chicago Stags
 40 28 .588 11 18–6 14–21 8–1 11–13
St. Louis Bombers 26 42 .382 25 17–14 7–26 2–2 4–20

To define first and third place, the Lakers played one game against the Royals, while the Stags played one against the Pistons, preliminary to the 1950 NBA Playoffs.


The five Central Division teams and five Eastern teams beside Syracuse—that is, the ten BAA 1949 teams—uniformly played 68 games: six games in each pairing among themselves (54) and two games each against each of the Western teams and Syracuse (14).[2]



Western Division

















































































Western Division

  • v

  • t

  • e
W
L
PCT
GB
Home
Road
Neutral
Div

x-Indianapolis Olympians
 39 25 .609 – 24–7 12–16 3–2 26–9

x-Anderson Packers
 37 27 .578 2 22–9 12–18 3–0 25–12

x-Tri-Cities Blackhawks
 29 35 .453 10 20–13 6–20 3–2 20–17

x-Sheboygan Red Skins
 22 40 .355 17 17–14 5–22 0–4 15–20
Waterloo Hawks 19 43 .306 20 16–15 2–22 1–6 13–22
Denver Nuggets 11 51 .177 28 9–16 1–25 1–10 8–27

The six Western Division teams and Syracuse—that is, the seven NBL participants in the merger—uniformly played two games each against every one of the ten BAA 1949 teams, the East and Central teams except Syracuse (20 games each). They played seven or nine games in each pairing among themselves (at least 42 games).[2]



x – clinched playoff spot

See also: 1950 NBA Playoffs


Statistics leaders
Category Player Team Stat
Points George Mikan Minneapolis Lakers 1,865
Assists Dick McGuire New York Knicks 386
FG% Alex Groza Indianapolis Olympians .478
FT% Max Zaslofsky Chicago Stags .843

Note: Prior to the 1969–70 season, league leaders in points and assists were determined by totals rather than averages.



NBA awards









References


General source: 1949–50 NBA Season Summary basketball-reference.com. Retrieved August 31, 2010.





  1. ^ "NBA Season Recaps". NBA History (nba.com/history). July 1, 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-04.


  2. ^ abcd
    "Expanded Standings". "1949–50 NBA Standings". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2015-03-04.




External links




  • NBA History at NBA.com


  • 1949–50 NBA Season Summary at Basketball-Reference.com










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