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World Professional Basketball Tournament
(WPBT)
History 1939-1948 (10 seasons)
The World Professional Basketball Tournament was an invitational tournament held in Chicago and sponsored by the Chicago Herald American. The annual event was held from 1939 to 1948, and the winner was generally acknowledged as the World Champions of basketball. Many teams came from the National Basketball League, but it
what a year. the competitiveness of the ABL really brought the NBA out of its duldrums.