List of defunct National Basketball Association teams

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The Sheboygan Municipal Auditorium and Armory was the home arena for the Sheboygan Redskins.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional men's basketball league, consisting of 30 teams in North America (29 in the United States and one in Canada). The NBA was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA).[1] It adopted the name National Basketball Association at the start of the 1949–50 season when it absorbed the National Basketball League (NBL).[1] The NBA is an active member of USA Basketball, which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) as the National Governing Body (NGB) for basketball in the country.[2] The league is considered to be one of the four major professional sports leagues of North America.[3]

There have been 15 defunct NBA franchises. The Anderson Packers, the original Denver Nuggets, the Indianapolis Jets, the Sheboygan Red Skins, and the Waterloo Hawks had played in the NBL before joining the NBA,[4][5] while the original Baltimore Bullets had played in the American Basketball League before joining the NBA.[6] Nine of the fifteen defunct teams have played in only one NBA season. The Packers, Red Skins, and Hawks left the NBA for the National Professional Basketball League, and are the only defunct teams to have ceased to exist in a league other than the NBA.[7] The original Bullets were the last defunct team to leave the NBA, having left during the 1954–55 season, and are the only defunct team to have won an NBA championship. The Chicago Stags, the Indianapolis Olympians, the Cleveland Rebels, the Packers, and the Red Skins qualified for the playoffs in every year they were active in the league. Among cities that have hosted defunct NBA franchises, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. are the only ones to currently have an NBA team, although Providence, Rhode Island, Anderson, Indiana and Sheboygan, Wisconsin are around an hour from a market with an NBA franchise.

Defunct teams

* Denotes team that won a championship
Team City Years active Seasons played Win–loss record Win% Playoffs appearances Reference
Anderson Packers[a] Anderson, Indiana 1949–50 1 37–27 .578 1 [8]
BAA Buffalo Buffalo, New York Never Played 0 0–0 N/A 0 [9]
BAA Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana Never Played 0 0–0 N/A 0 [9]
Baltimore Bullets*[b] Baltimore, Maryland 1947–54[e] 8 158–292 .351 3 [10]
Chicago Stags Chicago, Illinois 1946–50 4 145–92 .612 4 [11][12]
Cleveland Rebels Cleveland, Ohio 1946–47 1 30–30 .500 1 [13]
Denver Nuggets[c] Denver, Colorado 1949–50 1 11–51 .177 0 [14]
Detroit Falcons Detroit, Michigan 1946–47 1 20–40 .333 0 [15]
Indianapolis Jets Indianapolis, Indiana 1948–49 1 18–42 .300 0 [16]
Indianapolis Olympians Indianapolis, Indiana 1949–53 4 132–137 .491 4 [17]
Pittsburgh Ironmen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1946–47 1 15–45 .250 0 [18]
Providence Steamrollers Providence, Rhode Island 1946–49 3 46–122 .274 0 [19]
Sheboygan Red Skins[g] Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1949–50 1 22–40 .355 1 [20]
St. Louis Bombers St. Louis, Missouri 1946–50 4 122–115 .515 3 [21]
Toronto Huskies Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1946–47 1 22–38 .367 0 [22]
Washington Capitols[h] Washington, D.C. 1946–51[f] 5 157–114 .579 4 [23]
Waterloo Hawks[d] Waterloo, Iowa 1949–50 1 19–43 .306 0 [24]

See also

Notes

References

General
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