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The 1961–62 NBA season was the Packers' 1st season in the NBA. [1] It would also be their only season for the franchise under that name. They would be renamed the Chicago Zephyrs for the 1962–1963 season.
The Wizards began playing as the Chicago Packers in 1961, as the NBA's first expansion team, an expansion prompted by Abe Saperstein's American Basketball League. Rookie Walt Bellamy was the team's star, averaging 31.6 points per game, 19.0 rebounds per game, and leading the NBA in field goal percentage. During the All-Star Game, Bellamy ...
The Chicago Packers entered the league, bringing the number of teams to nine. The NBA schedule was expanded for the third consecutive season. This time it went from 79 games per team, to 80. The Philadelphia Warriors played their final season before their transcontinental relocation to San Francisco for the following season.
The Chicago Packers (now Washington Wizards) became the ninth NBA team in 1961. [35] From 1966 to 1968, the league expanded from 9 to 14 teams, introducing the Chicago Bulls, Seattle SuperSonics (now Oklahoma City Thunder), San Diego Rockets (who moved to Houston four years later), Milwaukee Bucks, and Phoenix Suns.
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The NBA returned to Chicago with the Chicago Packers in 1961, but their poor first season record (18–62) turned off many fans, and the team was sold to a group of Maryland investors in 1962. [2] The Chicago Packers were scheduled to relocate to Baltimore by the fall of 1963. In the meantime, the team adopted a new nickname, the Chicago Zephyrs.
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