Summary
In its second season, the Basketball Association of America was considerably revamped. Four of its original 11 teams, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Toronto, were gone and the Baltimore Bullets were added.
The BAA staged two great division races.
In the Western Division, the St. Louis Bombers won by one game and the other three teams were all tied for second place. The Philadelphia Warriors also won by one game in the East, over the New York Knickerbockers, although the division's other two teams all finished far back. They were the only two teams in the league with losing records.
The playoff format was even stranger than in the previous year. First, the three-way tie for second place had to be resolved. Chicago eliminated Washington in a one-game playoff and Baltimore then knocked off Chicago in their playoff game.
Then came the real playoffs. Baltimore beat New York in the best-of-three series between second-place teams and Chicago beat Boston in the third-place contest.
In the semifinals, the first-place teams again met in a best-of-seven series, with Philadelphia beating St. Louis, while Baltimore swept its best-of-three series against Chicago.
Then, for the second year in a row, a second-place team won the league championship as the Bullets dethroned defending champion Philadelphia in six games.
Joe Fulks once again led the league in scoring average, but wasn't the scoring champion. That honor was based on total points. Because Fulks missed five games with an injury, he finished behind Max Zaslofsky of Chicago in that category.
