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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.
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 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.
Chicago Packers / Zephyrs regular season record (1961–1963) 43 117 .269 Baltimore Bullets regular season record (1963–1973) 401 412 .493 Capital / Washington Bullets regular season record (1973–1997) 934 1,034 .475 Washington Wizards regular season record (1997–present) 937 1,369 .406 All-time regular season record 2,272 2,815.447
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 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 Green Bay Packers had several opportunities to match up with the NFC’s top teams this season. Green Bay generally won the games it was supposed to win, but it lost all six times it faced a ...
This category is for the team that became the Washington Wizards. ... Chicago Packers draft picks (1 C, 12 P) Chicago Packers coaches (1 C) P. Chicago Packers players ...