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1950–51 NBA season The 1950–51 NBA season was the fifth season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Rochester Royals winning the NBA Championship, beating the New York Knicks 4 games to 3 in the 1951 NBA Finals, NBA Finals. Notable ...
was the Capitols' fifth and final season in the
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. Midway through the season, the franchise ceased operations. Despite this being their final season in the NBA, the Capitols would appear in the following season after this one under the original American Basketball League, though that team would also fold during the middle of that season as well (though that related to the NBA threatening to sue the new Capitols and the ABL if they tried to take the original franchise's history away from the NBA alongside the team's name). One lesser known, yet notable aspect from this season had the Capitols be involved in multiple rigged games orchestrated by NBA referee Sol Levy, with Levy failing to rig a match between the Capitols and the
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on November 4 to favor the Capitols, but successfully rig a match against the
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to have Boston win a week later on November 11, which later led to Levy being arrested for his actions and charged as an accomplice in the
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of 1951.


Draft picks

Earl Lloyd would be the first
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player drafted to officially play in the NBA due to the Capitols making their regular season debut first over the
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with Chuck Cooper and the
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with
Nathaniel Clifton Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton (born Clifton Nathaniel; October 13, 1922 – August 31, 1990) was an American professional basketball player who was one of the first African Americans to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was ...
. Lloyd's breaking of the racial barrier in the NBA would happen years after
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would do it for
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and the all-black
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had played in the NBA's precursor in the National Basketball League after replacing the Detroit Vagabond Kings during the NBL's final season of existence. However, this draft would also be the final draft that the Capitols would ever participate in, as well as become the only draft they'd ever take part in under the official
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name, as they would have the magnanimous misnomer of being the first NBA team to fold operations during a season of play, with such a dubious feat not occurring again in the NBA until four seasons later in the 1954-55 NBA season.


Roster


Regular season


Season standings


Record vs. opponents


Game log

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Dispersal Draft

After the Capitols franchise folded operations on January 9, 1951, the NBA would conduct a dispersal draft on the team's players later that same day. It effectively became the final dispersal draft of the 1950–51 season, following the dispersal drafts involving the
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, St. Louis Bombers, and
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franchises earlier in the 1950 offseason period. As such, the following teams acquired these players from the Capitols during the dispersal draft period. * Baltimore Bullets: Chick Halbert *
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& Frank Kudelka *
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Bill Sharman William Walton Sharman (May 25, 1926 – October 25, 2013) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is mostly known for his time with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s, partnering with Bob Cousy in what was then consider ...
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: Dick Schnittker *
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Earl Lloyd Earl Francis Lloyd (April 3, 1928 – February 26, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was the first African American player to play a game in the National Basketball Association (NBA). An All–American player at ...
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Fred Scolari Fred Joseph Scolari (March 1, 1922 – October 17, 2002) was an American professional basketball player. At 5'10", he played the point guard position. Biography Though he was blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and often overweight, "Fat Freddi ...
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: Alan Sawyer


References

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