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1950–51 Fort Wayne Pistons season

NBA team season

Field	Value
team	Fort Wayne Pistons
team_link	Detroit Pistons
end_year	1951
wins	32
losses	36
division	Western
division_place	3
coach	Murray Mendenhall
owner	Fred Zollner
arena	North Side High School Gym
playoffs	[West Division Semifinals](1951-nba-playoffs-bracket)
(eliminated 1–2)
bbr_team	FTW

(eliminated 1–2)

The 1950–51 Fort Wayne Pistons season was the Pistons' third season in the NBA and tenth season as a franchise. This season would be notable for an infamous match played on November 22, 1950, against the Minneapolis Lakers, with the Pistons holding onto the ball for a vast majority of the match in order to not allow opposing star center George Mikan to dominate them in the paint, which worked too well to the point where it resulted in the lowest-scoring match in NBA history with a 19–18 victory favoring the Pistons (and subsequently breaking a record previously held by the Detroit Falcons for the lowest scoring effort in a BAA/NBA match), which resulted in spectators of the match feeling like they wouldn't be interested in the sport of basketball at all if that match was a reflection of what it truly was and subsequently led to the creation of the shot clock a few seasons later in order to help make sure the NBA never had another game like that ever again in its history.

The Pistons finished with a 32-36 (.471) record, good for third in the West Division. The team advanced to the playoffs, losing in the division semifinals 2–1 to the Rochester Royals. The team was led by forward Fred Schaus (15.1 ppg, 7.3 rpg, NBA All-Star) and the double-double of center Larry Foust (13.5 ppg, 10.0 rpg, NBA All-Star). The team drafted future star George Yardley in the 1950 NBA draft, but Yardley would sit out three years, opting to play AAU basketball, then serving in the United States Navy, getting married, and joining Fort Wayne for the 1953-54 Fort Wayne Pistons season.

Draft picks

Main article: 1950 NBA draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	College
1	7	George Yardley	G/F	Stanford
2	19	Jim Riffey	F	Tulane
3	31	Art Burris	F	Tennessee

Roster

1950–51 game log
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Playoffs

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References

[https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/FTW/1951.html 1950–51 Fort Wayne Pistons]
https://nbahoopsonline.com/History/Records/pointsfew.html
https://nbahoopsonline.com/Articles/History/LeoFerris.html
"1950-51 Fort Wayne Pistons Roster and Stats".
(14 October 2011). "Chevette to Corvette No. 43: The 1950-51 Fort Wayne Pistons".

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