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The 1948–49 New York Knicks season was the third
season A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's axial tilt, tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperat ...
for the team in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the
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(NBA). The
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had a 32–28 record in 1948–49 and finished second in the Eastern Division, six games behind the
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. New York qualified for the
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, and defeated the Baltimore Bullets 2–1 in a best-of-three series to earn a place in the Eastern Division finals. In the division championship series, the Knicks lost to the Capitols, two games to one. Before the 1949–50 season, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the NBA.


Draft

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Roster


Regular season


Season standings


Record vs. opponents


Game log


Playoffs

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1948–49 New York Knickerbockers Statistics
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