RetroSeasons
RetroSeasons recaps past sports seasons through stories, photos, videos, and stats from every team, league, and stadium in history. Coverage includes the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL, as well as vintage media from defunct teams and leagues.
National Professional Basketball League II
(NPBL2)
History 1933-1933 (1 season)
The National Professional Basketball League was created during 1933 in an another attempt to bring the professional game to the Midwest. The company-sponsored Akron Firestones dominated the circuit, losing only once in regular season play before polishing off second-place Toledo in three straight games in the playoffs. The league’s leading scorer was former Purdue All-American, John Wooden. The future coaching legend took time off from his high school teaching and coaching duties to perform on weekends. Depression realities doomed the new league to just one year of existence.
what a year. the competitiveness of the ABL really brought the NBA out of its duldrums.