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WGN. 1962–63 >. 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 ...
1962–63 Chicago Zephyrs season. The 1962–63 NBA season was the Zephyrs' 2nd season in the NBA, [1] as well as their only season under the Zephyrs name after going under the Packers name the previous season and their final season in the Windy City before the franchise 's relocation to Baltimore as a new Baltimore Bullets team for the ...
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 original Bullets were the last defunct team to leave the NBA, having folded 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.
The 1961 NBA expansion draft was the inaugural expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 26, 1961, so that the newly founded Chicago Packers could acquire players for the upcoming 1961–62 season. The Packers were the second NBA team from Chicago, after the Chicago Stags, which folded in 1950. [1]
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference. The team was founded on January 16, 1966, and played its first game during the 1966–67 NBA season. [9] The Bulls play their home games at ...
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