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1954–55 Baltimore Bullets season

Aborted NBA professional basketball team season

Aborted NBA professional basketball team season

Albert Barthelme (1–2) The 1954–55 Baltimore Bullets season was the Bullets' 8th season in the NBA and eleventh and final overall season of existence. After losing their November 19 game in a 103–92 defeat to the Fort Wayne Pistons for a 2–9 start to the season, the Bullets would fire head coach Clair Bee and replace him with assistant coach (and former University of Baltimore head coach) Albert Barthelme for what turned out to be the team's final three games ever played in franchise history. The franchise ceased operations after playing 14 total games with a 3–11 record on November 27, 1954. The NBA's official record books for the 1954–55 season do not include the Bullets' games and team statistics, nor do they include the statistics of the opposing players and teams in games played against the Bullets.

Baltimore would go without an NBA team until 1963, when the Chicago Zephyrs moved to Baltimore and became the second incarnation of the Baltimore Bullets. The new team, however, would not claim the old Bullets' history as a part of their own team history following the move from Chicago to Baltimore.

Draft picks

Main article: 1954 NBA draft

RoundPickPlayerPosition(s)NationalityCollege
11Frank SelvySG/SFUSAFurman
27Bobby LeonardPGUSAIndiana
316Werner KillenPF/CUSALawrence Institute of Technology
425Burt SpiceFUSAToledo
534Lou ScottCUSAIndiana
643Bob HeimSGUSAXavier
752Joe PehanickCUSASeattle
861Harry BrooksPGUSASeton Hall
970Ron GoerrsCUSAConcordia Seminary
1078Gary ShiversPF/CUSAHouston
1187Elliot KarverSGUSAGeorge Washington

Baltimore would only use eleven of the draft's thirteen rounds worth of selections before opting out of the rest of the draft afterward. This became the second draft in a row where the Bullets would obtain the first overall draft pick and third and final time in franchise history that the original Baltimore Bullets would get the #1 draft pick in the NBA. This draft would also later prove to be the last draft that the original Baltimore Bullets franchise would participate in, as they would fold operations during the very early portions of the season. However, a new Baltimore Bullets squad would be able to return to the NBA draft by the 1964 NBA draft once the Chicago Zephyrs moved to Baltimore to take on the Baltimore Bullets name personally, with them using the Bullets name for most of their existence by that point in time (even after that Bullets squad moved out of Baltimore to be in Washington, D.C. in 1973–74 instead) until 1997 in order for that team to become the current Washington Wizards going forward.

Roster

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  • Clair Bee (fired)
  • Albert Barthelme

Regular season

Game log

Source:

*November 25**@ Fort Wayne**L 89–92*

Dispersal Draft

After the original Baltimore Bullets franchise folded operations on November 27, 1954, the NBA would conduct a dispersal draft on the team's players later that same day. As of 2025, this would be the last dispersal draft that the NBA had in regards to their own teams folding operations. (The NBA would later host the 1976 ABA dispersal draft due to the NBA-ABA merger earlier that year, but the dispersal draft there would involve teams from the future created rivaling American Basketball Association, not any teams from the NBA.) As such, the following teams acquired these players from the original Bullets franchise during the dispersal draft period.

  • Boston Celtics: Bob Houbregs & Eddie Miller
  • Fort Wayne Pistons: Al Roges
  • Milwaukee Hawks: Frank Selvy
  • Minneapolis Lakers: Bobby Leonard
  • New York Knicks: Herm Hedderick & Paul Hoffman
  • Philadelphia Warriors: Ken Murray
  • Rochester Royals: Don Henriksen
  • Syracuse Nationals: Connie Simmons

References

References

  1. [https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/BLB/1955.html 1954-55 Baltimore Bullets]
  2. (November 20, 1954). "Al Barthelme Is New Coach of Baltimore". [[Reading Eagle]].
  3. (July 1, 2003). "A Biographical Directory of Professional Basketball Coaches". Scarecrow Press.
  4. [https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_1955.html "1954-55 NBA Season Summary"]
  5. "1954-1955 Baltimore Bullets".
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