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1946–47 Toronto Huskies season

Field	Value
team	Toronto Huskies
league	BAA
end_year	1947
wins	22
losses	38
division_place	6
division	Eastern
coach	Ed Sadowski (3–9)
Lew Hayman (0–1)
Dick Fitzgerald (2–1)
Red Rolfe (17–27)
arena	Maple Leaf Gardens
radio	CFRB
playoffs	Did not qualify
no_prevseason	1
no_nextseason	1

Lew Hayman (0–1) Dick Fitzgerald (2–1) Red Rolfe (17–27) The 1946–47 BAA season was the Toronto Huskies' sole season of existence. The Huskies played in the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and hosted what is now considered the NBA's first game at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on November 1, 1946, losing to the New York Knickerbockers 68–66. The Huskies finished last in their division and folded after one season.

Throughout the season, the Huskies had four head coaches: Ed Sadowski 3 wins–9 losses, Lew Hayman 0–1, Dick Fitzgerald 2–1, and Red Rolfe 17–27. After the BAA's inaugural season concluded, the Huskies were initially undecided on their long-term plans, due to a combination of the team's poor record and the status of Maple Leaf Gardens being more focused at that time on its namesake tenants the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.

While they participated in the 1947 BAA draft, the Huskies ultimately joined the Pittsburgh Ironmen, Detroit Falcons, and Cleveland Rebels as the four inaugural BAA teams (as well as the only Eastern Division team) to exit the league before the following season. Toronto later gained an NBA team for the 1995–96 NBA season with the debut of the Toronto Raptors.

Roster

Red Rolfe

Regular season

The attendance for the inaugural match was 7,090 with ticket prices ranging from 75 cents to two dollars and fifty cents. On that night, anyone taller than George Nostrand, the tallest Husky at 6'8", was given free admission.

Attendance quickly dwindled and the Toronto Star published an estimate that team owners Eric Cradock (co-owner of the Montreal Alouettes football team) and Harold Shannon lost $100,000 in one season of operations. The managing director of the Huskies was Lew Hayman, who was also the coach and general manager of the Alouettes. Previously, he had been a star basketball player at Syracuse University. Other key figures included team president Charles Watson, co-founders Ben Newman and Salter Hayden and Annis Stukus.

Season standings

Game log

Regular season

60	March 29, 1947	Toronto Huskies	63–66	Detroit Falcons	Mike McCarron (18)	22–38

Player stats

Note: GP= Games played; FG= Field Goals; FT= Free Throws; FTA = Free Throws Attempted; AST = Assists; PTS = Points

Player	GP	FG	FT	FTA	AST	PTS
Mike McCarron	60	236	177	288	59	649
Leo Mogus	41	186	172	237	56	544
Red Wallace	37	170	85	148	38	425
Dick Fitzgerald	60	118	41	60	40	277
Kleggie Hermsen	21	95	64	97	15	254
Dick Schulz	41	87	74	107	39	248
Roy Hurley	46	100	39	64	34	239
Bob Mullens	28	98	42	68	36	238
Ed Sadowski	10	73	45	66	8	191
Harry Miller	53	58	36	82	42	152
Charlie Hoefer	23	54	32	46	9	140
Frank Fucarino	28	53	34	60	7	140
Bob Fitzgerald	31	47	45	70	26	139
George Nostrand	13	46	24	61	10	116
Nat Militzok	21	38	24	39	14	100
Ray Wertis	18	38	23	37	18	99
Ralph Siewert	14	5	6	10	4	16
Ed Kasid	8	6	0	6	6	12
Gino Sovran	6	5	1	2	1	11
Hank Biasatti	6	2	2	4	0	6

Playoffs

The Huskies did not qualify for the postseason.

Transactions

Main article: List of 1946–47 BAA season transactions

Trades

January 21, 1947
To Toronto HuskiesBob Mullens	To New York KnicksBob Fitzgerald

Purchases

Player	Date bought	Previous team
Nat Militzok	February, 1947	New York Knicks

Dispersal Draft

During the first end of season meeting for the Basketball Association of America's board of governors on May 21, 1947, the Huskies joined the Chicago Stags as one of two teams who were unsure whether they would continue to play for another season. Despite this uncertainty, both the Huskies and Stags participated in the inaugural 1947 BAA draft. The Huskies selected Glen Selbo from the University of Wisconsin, Red Rocha from Oregon State University, Frank Broyles from the Georgia School of Technology (now Georgia Tech), Wimpy Quinn from the University of Oregon, and Paul Hoffman from Purdue University. During the same draft, former Huskies player Hank Biasatti was drafted by the Boston Celtics in the second round, although he never played professional basketball again, instead opting to play baseball professionally.

While the Stags ultimately decided to continue for another season, later playing up until 1950, the Huskies and Pittsburgh Ironmen folded operations entirely on July 27, 1947. The remaining eight teams (the surviving seven teams plus the original Baltimore Bullets franchise that came from the original American Basketball League) entered into a dispersal draft on August 2 that year, with each team taking players from the previously disbanded Cleveland Rebels and Detroit Falcons franchises alongside the Huskies and Ironmen. The following teams acquired these players from the Ironmen during the dispersal draft period:

Baltimore Bullets: Leo Mogus & Dick Schulz
Boston Celtics: Harry Miller
New York Knicks: Mike McCarron
Providence Steamrollers: Dick Fitzgerald
Washington Capitols: Roy Hurley, Bob Mullens, & Red Wallace

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