The Detroit Falcons were a
Basketball Association of America (forerunner of the
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...
) team based in
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...
. It played in the inaugural
1946–47 season and folded soon after the season ended, leaving Detroit without a professional basketball team until
a decade later, when the
Fort Wayne Pistons
A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...
moved there.
History
The Falcons played only in the
inaugural season of the BAA and finished 4th in the Western Division with a 20–40 record, games out of first place.
Stan Miasek was the team's star, scoring 895 points (14.9 points per game) and making the BAA's First-Team that year.
Personnel
;Head coaches
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Glenn M. Curtis (12–22)
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Philip Sachs
Philip "Cincy" Sachs (April 1, 1902 – December 19, 1973) was an American basketball interim head coach for the Detroit Falcons (basketball), Detroit Falcons, a Basketball Association of America team, in 1946–47 Detroit Falcons (basketball) seas ...
(8–18)
;Players
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Bob Dille
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Harold Brown
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Stan Miasek
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George Pearcy
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Henry Pearcy
Henry Earl Pearcy Sr. (July 21, 1922 – January 11, 2002) was an American professional basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with ...
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Milt Schoon
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Harold Johnson
External links
Detroit Falcons HistoryNBA Hoops Online
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Defunct National Basketball Association teams
Basketball Association of America teams
1946 establishments in Michigan
1947 disestablishments in Michigan
Basketball teams established in 1946
Basketball teams disestablished in 1947