Hammond Calumet Buccaneers
| Hammond Calumet Buccaneers | |
|---|---|
| Leagues | National Basketball League |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Dissolved | 1949 |
| Location | Hammond, Indiana |
The Hammond Calumet Buccaneers were a professional team of basketball that competed in the National Basketball League for only the 1948–49 season. They were based in Hammond, Indiana, and played in the Hammond Civic Center for home games.
The team ranked third in the Eastern Division, and was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Syracuse Nationals.[1] After losing their playoff series to the Nationals, the Calumet Buccaneers would join the Oshkosh All-Stars and Dayton Rens (an all-black team) as the only NBL teams to not join the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in their merger to become the NBA. While the Rens didn't do a dispersal draft of their players and the All-Stars initially diverted their players into an original Wisconsin-based NBA team out in either Milwaukee (before the existence of the Milwaukee Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks) or Green Bay before later forcing their players into a dispersal draft into the now-NBA's teams, Hammond's players (which featured the likes of Don Boven, Joe Camic, Jake Carter, Ted Cook, George Glamack, Dick Hammond, Bobby McDermott, Al Miksis, Stan Patrick, Jack Phelan, Ollie Shoaff, Sterling Scott, John Sebastian, Wayne See, Chips Sobek, and Clint Wager) would all move out of Hammond and look to play for the Waterloo Hawks instead.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hammond Calumet Buccaneers Index". Basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ Bradley, Robert D. (2013). The Basketball Draft Fact Book: A History of Professional Basketball's College Drafts. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810890695., pg. 423
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