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1949–50 Waterloo Hawks season

Jack Smiley (11–16) The 1949–50 Waterloo Hawks season was their second professional season played and the first and only season in the newly formed National Basketball Association, which was a merger between the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League (which Waterloo first played for). After completing their only season in the NBA, the Waterloo Hawks joined the Sheboygan Red Skins, the original Denver Nuggets (who would later rebrand themselves as the Denver Frontier Refiners at first), and the previously withdrawn Anderson Packers (who left the NBA weeks before the other three teams did due to pressure involving other big market teams in places like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia alongside the higher costs involved with the newly-formed NBA being too much for them to bear) the day before the 1950 NBA draft was set to begin on April 24, 1950 to create the short-lived rivaling National Professional Basketball League as a failed effort to survive beyond the NBA.

Roster

Charley Shipp Jack Smiley

Regular season

Season standings

Game log

1949–50 Game log
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Dispersal Draft

After the Hawks withdrew from the NBA alongside the Sheboygan Red Skins and original Denver Nuggets franchise on April 24, 1950, the league decided not to bother entering players from each of those three teams into a dispersal draft like they did for the Anderson Packers (despite them also joining the Hawks, Red Skins, and original Nuggets in creating the short-lived NPBL) and the St. Louis Bombers (who folded operations the same day the Hawks, Red Skins, and original Nuggets franchises joined the Packers in withdrawing from the NBA to create a new rivaling professional basketball league) once they got closer to entering the new season. However, unlike with the Red Skins or original Nuggets franchises, the Waterloo Hawks were able to get two of their players in Harry Boykoff and Dick Mehen into something akin to a dispersal draft of sorts for the NBA with two separate drawings being held for the player rights to be held for them on June 19, 1950. On that fateful day, the original Baltimore Bullets franchise would end up being the lucky winner for both of these players, though Baltimore would decide to trade Boykoff's player rights to the Boston Celtics before the start of the upcoming season.

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