Indianapolis jets

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Indianapolis jets
founding 1937
resolution 1949
Location Indianapolis , Indiana
league NBL (1937-1948)
BAA (1948-1949)

Indianapolis Jets (formerly Indianapolis Kautskys ) was the name of a US basketball franchise from Indianapolis , Indiana , which played in the NBL from 1937 to 1948 and in the 1948-49 season in the BAA , later the NBA . After that, the team was replaced by the Indianapolis Olympians in the course of the merger of two basketball leagues to form the NBA .

history

Indianapolis Kautskys

In 1931, Frank Kautsky, an Indianapolis grocer, founded the Indianapolis Kautsky basketball team . The team initially played for two seasons in the Midwest Basketball Conference (MBC) from 1935 to 1937 before the Kautskys became a founding member of the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1937 .

Indianapolis jets

For the 1948/49 season , the team moved to the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which merged with the NBL to form the National Basketball Association (NBA) after this season . At the same time, the team's name was changed to Indianapolis Jets , as the BAA did not allow their teams to sponsor on their behalf. Since there was already another basketball team in Indianapolis with the Indianapolis Olympians (in the NBL), the Jets dissolved their team in the course of the merger of the two leagues, as there could not be two teams from one city.

Season statistics

season Victories: defeats percent Play-offs
Indianapolis Kautskys (MBC)
1935/36 9: 3 75.0 participation
1936/37 2: 5 28.6 no participation
Indianapolis Kautskys (NBL)
1937/38 4: 9 30.8 no participation
1938/39 13:13 50.0 no participation
1939/40 9:19 32.1 no participation
1941/42 12:11 52.2 participation
1945/46 10:22 31.2 no participation
1946/47 27:17 61.4 participation
1947/48 24:35 40.7 participation
Indianapolis Jets (BAA)
1948/49 18:42 30.0 no participation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basketball-Reference.com: Indianapolis Jets . Team profile at basketball-reference.com, accessed March 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d David B. Biesel: Can You Name that Team ?: A Guide to Professional Baseball, Football, Soccer, Hockey, and Basketball Teams and Leagues . Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland 1991, ISBN 0-8108-2458-2 , pp. 33-34.
  3. ↑ APBR: MIDWEST BASKETBALL CONFERENCE 1935-36 to 1936-37 . Online at www.apbr.org. Retrieved March 10, 2017.