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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 ...
This year witnessed the first occurrence of a player averaging a triple-double throughout an entire season when Oscar Robertson averaged 30.8 points, 11.4 assists, and 12.5 rebounds per game. [1] This was the last season of the NBA on NBC, the network would regain NBA coverage starting in the 1990–91 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]
New England Patriots: 2001 AFC Divisional Playoff game where a Patriots fumble was overturned by officials due to Patriots QB Tom Brady appearing to "tuck" the ball in, ruling it an incomplete pass and leading to a Patriots victory and Super Bowl XXXVI win. [52] [53] Favre's Dad Game: December 22, 2003 Green Bay Packers: 41-7 Oakland Raiders
The Buccaneers began the game with the ball and drove down the field on a nine play, 60-yard drive that ended in a 15-yard touchdown pass from Brady to Mike Evans.The Packers and the Buccaneers exchanged punts before the Packers tied the game 7–7 on a 90-yard drive punctuated by a 50-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to Marquez Valdes-Scantling on third down.
The Patriots advanced 57 yards in just four plays; after a 7-yard reception and a 2-yard run by Martin on their first two plays, Bledsoe completed a 44-yard pass to wide receiver Terry Glenn to advance to the Green Bay 4-yard line, and then tight end Ben Coates caught a 4-yard touchdown pass, giving New England their first lead of the game, 14 ...
After the Week 1 match-up, the Packers won 12 of the remaining 15 games, including separate four-game and five-game winning streaks. [4] The Packers secured the NFC North division title and a first-round bye in a Week 17 match-up against the Detroit Lions , who would have won the division had they emerged victorious.