1950–51 Philadelphia Warriors season

BAA professional basketball team season March 2026 August 2023 Philadelphia Warriors 1951 yes 40 26 Eastern 1 Edward Gottlieb Philadelphia Arena WCAU East Division Semifinals(eliminated 0–2) PHW The 1950–51 Philadelphia Warriors season was the Warriors' 5th season in the NBA.https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/PHW/1951.html 1950-51 Philadelphia Warriors Roster and Stats Basketball-Reference.com One lesser known aspect of this season involved the fact that the Warriors had been involved with two failed rigged NBA games orchestrated by NBA referee Sol Levy, with Levy failing to help the Warriors win over the Baltimore Bullets on November 15 and against the New York Knicks on November 18. His failures in those matches (with him successfully rigging three out of six total games planned) later led to Levy being arrested for his crime and later be tried as an accomplice for his role in the CCNY point-shaving scandal in 1951.Goldstein, Joe, "Explosion: 1951 scandals threaten college hoops" - ESPN - November 19, 200324 July 2007 When an NBA Referee Was Convicted of Shaving Points https://www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/3690/when-an-nba-referee-was-convicted-of-shaving-points Another lesser known fact about this season is that the Warriors were the very last opponent that the Washington Capitols would ever face off against before folding operations in the NBA on January 9, 1951; Philadelphia saw the end of the Washington Capitols franchise with the Warriors blowing out the Capitols in Philadelphia 102–74, with the Capitols deciding to fold operations later that day and the NBA holding a dispersal draft with the Capitols' players not long afterward. Weirdly enough, the Capitols would try to continue existing for the following season afterward in the original American Basketball League as a technically new franchise of sorts there, but they would fold operations as well by that upcoming January due to the NBA issuing legal threats against the ABL and the new Capitols if they tried to take the original franchise's history away from the NBA just like how they already took the original team's name from the NBA away into the ABL.https://nbahoopsonline.com/teams/Xdefunct/WashingtonCapitols/index.html Washington Capitols nbahoopsonline.com NBA draft 1950 NBA draft Round Pick Player Position Nationality School/Club team T – Paul Arizin G/F Villanova 2 14 Ed Dahler F Duquesne 5 50 Ike Borsavage F/C Temple Roster {| class="toccolours" style="font-size: 95%; width: 100%"|} ! colspan="2" style="background-color: #0000FF; color: #FFD700; text-align: center;" | Philadelphia Warriors 1950–51 roster |- style="background-color: #FFD700; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center" ! Players !! Coaches |- | valign="top" | {| class="sortable" style="background:transparent; margin:0px; width:100%;"|} ! Pos. !! # !! Name !! Ht. !! Wt. !! From |- 11 Paul Arizin SF 6 4 190 Villanova 5 Nelson Bobb PG 6 0 170 Temple 19 Ike Borsavage C/F 6 8 220 Temple 16 Bill Closs SF 6 5 195 Rice 10 Joe Fulks PF 6 5 190 Murray State 12 Vern Gardner SG 6 5 200 Utah 6 Ron Livingstone C 6 10 220 Wyoming 15 Ed Mikan C 6 8 230 DePaul 18 Leo Mogus F/C 6 4 190 Youngstown State 14 Easy Parham F/G 6 3 200 Texas Wesleyan 7 Andy Phillip G/F 6 2 195 Illinois 8 George Senesky PG 6 2 179 Saint Joseph's Edward Gottlieb Regular season Season standings PHW x – clinched playoff spot Game log 1950–51 Game log # Date Opponent Score High points Record 1 November 4 Boston 77–68 Joe Fulks (17) 1–0 2 November 9 Fort Wayne 87–72 Paul Arizin (26) 2–0 3 November 12 at Minneapolis 70–83 Joe Fulks (22) 2–1 4 November 14 Baltimore 84–72 Paul Arizin (24) 3–1 5 November 15 at Baltimore 72–80 Joe Fulks (20) 3–2 6 November 16 Indianapolis 84–67 Paul Arizin (20) 4–2 7 November 18 at New York 87–93 Joe Fulks (22) 4–3 8 November 21 Washington 83–78 Paul Arizin (16) 5–3 9 November 23 Rochester 89–71 Joe Fulks (24) 6–3 10 November 28 vs Boston 76–74 Paul Arizin (23) 7–3 11 November 30 Syracuse 81–78 Paul Arizin (28) 8–3 12 December 3 at Minneapolis 83–95 Joe Fulks (26) 8–4 13 December 6 at Fort Wayne 73–92 Paul Arizin (16) 8–5 14 December 7 Indianapolis 102–73 Paul Arizin (26) 9–5 15 December 9 at Baltimore 75–76 Joe Fulks (15) 9–6 16 December 10 at Rochester 84–99 Paul Arizin (19) 9–7 17 December 12 New York 101–91 Andy Phillip (24) 10–7 18 December 14 Fort Wayne 94–82 Joe Fulks (27) 11–7 19 December 16 at Washington 96–88 Joe Fulks (22) 12–7 20 December 19 Minneapolis 71–67 Joe Fulks (23) 13–7 21 December 23 at New York 79–83 (2OT) Paul Arizin (22) 13–8 22 December 25 New York 84–86 (OT) Paul Arizin (24) 13–9 23 December 27 New York 74–79 Arizin, Phillip (16) 13–10 24 December 28 Syracuse 91–88 (OT) Joe Fulks (37) 14–10 25 December 31 at Minneapolis 73–83 Paul Arizin (20) 14–11 26 January 1 at Tri-Cities 92–109 Paul Arizin (19) 14–12 27 January 2 at Indianapolis 87–86 (OT) Paul Arizin (23) 15–12 28 January 4 Baltimore 92–69 Joe Fulks (20) 16–12 29 January 6 at Baltimore 57–64 Joe Fulks (23) 16–13 30 January 9 Washington 102–74 Joe Fulks (23) 17–13 31 January 11 Rochester 82–79 Joe Fulks (30) 18–13 32 January 13 Boston 87–97 Joe Fulks (25) 18–14 33 January 14 at Boston 73–98 Arizin, Fulks, Senesky (16) 18–15 34 January 18 Indianapolis 114–80 Paul Arizin (26) 19–15 35 January 20 at Rochester 101–87 Paul Arizin (26) 20–15 36 January 21 at Syracuse 96–86 Bill Closs (18) 21–15 37 January 23 Tri-Cities 88–77 Joe Fulks (29) 22–15 38 January 25 Minneapolis 71–90 Joe Fulks (22) 22–16 39 January 26 at Indianapolis 75–78 Joe Fulks (19) 22–17 40 January 28 at Tri-Cities 96–86 Joe Fulks (25) 23–17 41 January 31 at Fort Wayne 84–91 George Senesky (20) 23–18 42 February 1 Boston 82–80 (2OT) Joe Fulks (19) 24–18 43 February 3 at Rochester 61–65 Paul Arizin (21) 24–19 44 February 4 at Syracuse 75–78 Joe Fulks (24) 24–20 45 February 6 Tri-Cities 97–77 Joe Fulks (16) 25–20 46 February 8 Baltimore 86–75 Joe Fulks (22) 26–20 47 February 10 at Indianapolis 88–78 Arizin, Mikan (24) 27–20 48 February 11 at Tri-Cities 72–76 Paul Arizin (17) 27–21 49 February 13 Boston 104–98 Joe Fulks (30) 28–21 50 February 15 New York 93–98 Arizin, Fulks (26) 28–22 51 February 16 at Boston 76–81 Joe Fulks (18) 28–23 52 February 18 at Fort Wayne 70–75 Closs, Gardner (13) 28–24 53 February 20 Tri-Cities 99–69 Joe Fulks (19) 29–24 54 February 21 at Baltimore 83–81 George Senesky (23) 30–24 55 February 22 Rochester 98–90 Paul Arizin (25) 31–24 56 February 24 at New York 70–64 Joe Fulks (28) 32–24 57 February 25 at Boston 83–93 Arizin, Phillip (20) 32–25 58 February 27 Syracuse 86–72 Joe Fulks (28) 33–25 59 March 1 Minneapolis 97–77 Paul Arizin (22) 34–25 60 March 4 at Syracuse 79–85 Paul Arizin (21) 34–26 61 March 6 New York 96–76 Joe Fulks (23) 35–26 62 March 7 at Baltimore 95–84 Paul Arizin (20) 36–26 63 March 8 Baltimore 94–90 (2OT) Joe Fulks (34) 37–26 64 March 11 at Syracuse 95–91 Joe Fulks (26) 38–26 65 March 15 Fort Wayne 88–78 Joe Fulks (31) 39–26 66 March 17 Syracuse 100–86 Paul Arizin (21) 40–26 Playoffs Philadelphia Warriors 1951 yes Philadelphia Warriors Division Semifinals yes yes no 0 1 0 1 yes |- | 1 | March 20 | Syracuse | L 89–91 (OT) | Joe Fulks (30) | Ed Mikan (16) | George Senesky (10) | Philadelphia Arena | 0–1 |- | 2 | March 22 | @ Syracuse | L 78–90 | Joe Fulks (22) | Arizin, Phillip (8) | Andy Phillip (9) | State Fair Coliseum | 0–2 |- PHW yes 1951 Awards and records Paul Arizin, NBA All-Star Game Joe Fulks, NBA All-Star Game Andy Phillip, NBA All-Star Game Joe Fulks, All-NBA Second Team References See also 1950–51 NBA season Category:Golden State Warriors seasons Philadelphia