1954–55 Baltimore Bullets season

Aborted NBA professional basketball team season March 2026 Citations lead to direct download of Excel document July 2024 August 2023 Baltimore Bullets (1944–54)Baltimore Bullets 1955 3 11 Eastern Clair Bee (2–9)Albert Barthelme (1–2) Baltimore Coliseum WCBM BLB Baltimore Bullets 1 The 1954–55 Baltimore Bullets season was the Bullets' 8th season in the NBA and eleventh and final overall season of existence.1954-55 Baltimore Bullets 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 fired head coach Clair Bee, replacing him with assistant coach, former University of Baltimore head coach, Albert Barthelme for what became the team's final three games of their franchise history.Al Barthelme Is New Coach of Baltimore https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cAsrAAAAIBAJ&pg=4474%2C1975325 September 11, 2014 Reading Eagle United Press International November 20, 1954Marcus Jeff A Biographical Directory of Professional Basketball Coaches July 1, 2003 Scarecrow Press 978-0810840072 https://books.google.com/books?id=JRBtAwAAQBAJ&q=Albert+Barthelme+basketball&pg=PT27 August 19, 2025 The franchise ceased operations on November 27, 1954, after tallying a 3–11 record. The NBA does not officially recognize the 1954–55 Bullets' games and statistics, including the games coached by both Clair Bee and replacement coach Albert Barthelme during this season."1954-55 NBA Season Summary" For the upcoming 1955–56 NBA season, one ownership group in Baltimore, Maryland and another in Washington, D.C. bid money in hopes of resurrecting a Baltimore Bullets franchise that would absorb the previous team's history, but the NBA rejected the groups' offers on April 13, 1955, the same day of the 1955 NBA draft.Bradley Robert The Compendium of Professional Basketball 1999 Xaler Press 0-9644774-3-2, p. 52 The D.C. group - the Washington Professional Basketball Corporation - threatened to file an antitrust lawsuit against the NBA worth $1 million, claiming the league conspired in preventing them from buying the bankrupt team a month afterward. The two groups later reached a settlement on January 24, 1956.Bradley Robert The Compendium of Professional Basketball 1999 Xaler Press 0-9644774-3-2, p. 89 Baltimore went without an NBA team until 1963, when the Chicago Zephyrs moved to Baltimore and became the second incarnation of the Baltimore Bullets. Following their move from Chicago, the new Baltimore did not claim the old Bullets' history as part of their own. Draft picks 1954 NBA draft Round Pick Player Position(s) Nationality College 1 1 Frank Selvy SG/SF USA 1912 Furman 2 7 Bobby Leonard PG USA 1912 Indiana 3 16 Werner Killen PF/C USA 1912 Lawrence Institute of Technology 4 25 Burt Spice F USA 1912 Toledo 5 34 Lou Scott C USA 1912 Indiana 6 43 Bob Heim SG USA 1912 Xavier 7 52 Joe Pehanick C USA 1912 Seattle 8 61 Harry Brooks PG USA 1912 Seton Hall 9 70 Ron Goerrs C USA 1912 Concordia Seminary 10 78 Gary Shivers PF/C USA 1912 Houston 11 87 Elliot Karver SG USA 1912 George Washington Baltimore were only active in the 1954 draft's first 11 rounds before opting out from the 12th and 13th rounds. The Bullets had the first overall pick in the draft, with whom they selected Frank Selvy. This was the third and final time in Bullets franchise history – and second consecutive instance of such, having picked Ray Felix in the 1953 draft – that they were granted the first overall pick. Roster Baltimore Bullets 1954–55 |- 20 Rollen Hans SG 6 2 210 Long Island 17 Don Henriksen FC 6 7 225 California 11 Paul Hoffman basketball GF 6 2 195 Purdue 10 Bob Houbregs CF 6 8 225 Washington 22 Dan King basketball F 6 6 220 Western Kentucky 7 Al McGuire PG 6 2 180 St. John's 9 Ken Murray basketball player SG 6 2 190 St. Bonaventure 18 Jim Neal C 6 11 235 Wofford 12 Al Roges SF 6 4 195 Long Island 28 Frank Selvy GF 6 3 180 Furman 17 Joe Smyth SF 6 3 215 Niagara 19 Connie Simmons CF 6 8 222 Flushing High School Clair Bee (fired) Albert Barthelme Regular season Game log Source:http://www.nbastats.net/05Various/1954-1955-BaltimoreBullets.xlsx 1954-1955 Baltimore Bullets 5 May 2026 2022-11-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20221118072009/http://www.nbastats.net/05Various/1954-1955-BaltimoreBullets.xlsx dead 1954–55 Game log # Date Opponent Score Record 1 October 30 Syracuse L 67–69 0–1 2 October 31 vs. Philadelphia L 97–102 0–2 3 November 3 Minneapolis W 93–92 1–2 4 November 6 @ Rochester L 80–128 1–3 5 November 7 Boston L 99–101 1–4 6 November 11 vs. Minneapolis L 87–97 1–5 7 November 12 vs. Minneapolis L 88–126 1–6 8 November 13 @ Boston L 113–118 1–7 9 November 14 New York L 93–95 1–8 10 November 16 @ New York W 110–107 2–8 11 November 19 Fort Wayne L 92–103 2–9 12 November 20 Milwaukee W 99–92 3–9 13 November 21 @ Minneapolis L 85–116 3–10 14 November 25 @ Fort Wayne L 89–92 3–11 All of these games were retroactively erased from NBA history following the team's folding, with each team's schedule rewritten to have 72 games without these games included. Dispersal Draft After the original Baltimore Bullets franchise folded operations on November 27, 1954, the NBA conducted a dispersal draft on the team's players later that day. This stands as the last dispersal draft held by the NBA for one of their own teams folding. However, the NBA would later host the 1976 ABA dispersal draft in August after the NBA-ABA merger two months earlier, but this dispersal draft involved teams from NBA rival league American Basketball Association and therefore no NBA teams. 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 Category:Baltimore Bullets (1944–1954) seasons Baltimore Baltimore Bullets