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1937–38 National Basketball League (United States) season

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Sport
  
Basketball

Number of teams
  
13

Duration
  
1937-1938

League
  
National Basketball League

Top scorer
  
Leroy Edwards (Oshkosh)

Eastern champions
  
Akron Goodyear Wingfoots

The 1937–38 NBL season was the inaugural season of the National Basketball League (NBL). This league is the evolution of the Midwest Basketball Conference Championship, a league that had a duration of two years before becoming the NBL. The league launched with 9 franchises, it was irregular because the teams were the ones that had to choose the day and the hour of the match, even the duration (4 quarters of 10 minutes or 3 parts of 15 minutes) was chosen by the local team before the match. The season ended with the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots becoming the NBL's first champions.

Awards

  • MVP: Leroy Edwards (Oshkosh)
  • Coach of the Year: Cliff Byers (Akron Goodyear)
  • Rookie of the Year: Bob Kessler (Indianapolis)
  • NBL-All First Team

  • Leroy Edwards, Oshkosh All-Stars
  • Scott Armstrong, Fort Wayne General Electrics
  • John Wooden, Whiting Ciesar All-Americans
  • Charlie Shipp, Akron Goodyear Wingfoots
  • Chuck Bloedorn, Akron Goodyear Wingfoots
  • NBL-All Second Team

  • Soup Cable, Akron Firestone Non-Skids
  • Jack Ozburn, Akron Firestone Non-Skids
  • Bob Kessler, Indianapolis Kautskys
  • Vince McGowan, Whiting Ciesar All-Americans<
  • Bart Quinn, Fort Wayne General Electrics
  • References

    1937–38 National Basketball League (United States) season Wikipedia