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1948 BAA Finals

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Dates
  
April 10–21

Radio network
  
WBAL (BLB) WCAU (PHW)

Start date
  
April 10, 1948

MVP
  
N/A

Champion
  
Balti Bullets

Hall of Famers
  
Bullets Buddy Jeannette (1994) Warriors Joe Fulks (1978)

Eastern Finals
  
Warriors defeat Bombers 4–3 (Eastern and Western champions)

Western Finals
  
Bullets defeat Stags 2–0 (Runners-up bracket)

Similar
  
1947 BAA Finals, 1950 NBA Finals, 1959 NBA Finals, 1964 NBA Finals, 1958 NBA Finals

The 1948 BAA Finals was the championship round of the Basketball Association of America's 1947–48 season. (Following its third, 1948–49 season, the BAA and National Basketball League merged to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The Philadelphia Warriors of the Eastern Division faced the Baltimore Bullets of the Western Division, with Philadelphia having home court advantage.

Baltimore was not the Western Division champion but advanced to the championship round by winning a four-team playoff among the Eastern and Western Division runners-up. Meanwhile, the Eastern and Western Division champions, Philadelphia Warriors and St. Louis Bombers, played one long series to determine the other finalist, a best-of-seven series that Philadelphia won 4–3. In the runners-up bracket, Baltimore and Chicago from the West had first eliminated New York and Boston from the East, then faced each other, all in best-of-three series. The format was used only twice, in 1947 and 1948, and generated two champions from the runners-up bracket.

The six games of the final series were played in twelve days, with at least one day off except prior to the decisive game. Division champions Philadelphia and St. Louis had played the seven games of their semifinal series in fifteen days, March 23 to April 6, with at least one day off before every game. The entire playoff tournament extended 30 days.

Series summary

Bullets win series 4–2

References

1948 BAA Finals Wikipedia