Major Professional Basketball Leagues:
National Basketball League- NBL#1(1899-1903) NBL#2[regional](1926-27)
American Basketball League- ABL(1925-1931) ABL[regional](1933-1946)
Eastern League- EL(1909-1933)
Interstate League- IS(1915-1920)
Metropolitan Basketball League- MBL(1921-1933)
New York-New Jersey League- NY-NJ
New York State League
AAU- Amateur Athletic Union
Also shown: Independent teams claiming championship & World Tournament winner.
1897 AAU 23rd Street YMCA Champions (round-robin tournament)
1899 AAU Knickerbocker A.C. Champions (round-robin)
1899 NBL Trenton Nationals Champions (beat Millville(NJ) in playoffs)
1900 AAU Knickerbocker A.C. Champions (round-robin)
1900 NBL Trenton Trentons Champions (won 1st place both halves)
1901 NBL New York Wanderers 1st place,second half
Champions (beat trenton Trentons in playoffs
1910 EL Trenton Champions (beat Reading 3 games to 0 in playoffs)
1912 EL Trenton Champions (beat Jasper (Kensington,Pa,) 2 games to 1 in playoffs)
1916 ISL Elizabeth(NJ) Bessies 1st place,first half. Transferred from Kingston(NY) Pathfinders during season. Transfered to North Hudson(NJ) for 2nd half.
1916 ISL Paterson Crescents 1st place,second half
Champions (beat North Hudson 3 games to 2 in playoffs)
1917 ISL Paterson Crescents 1st place,second half
1917 ISL Bridgeport Blue Ribons 1st place,first half
1917 ISL Champions (beat Paterson Crescents 2 games to 0 in playoffs)
1920 AAU New York University Champions (beat Rutgers 49-24 in final)
1921 Ind. Original (NY) Celtics Tie, 1 game each for Championship v. New York Whirlwinds)
1921 Ind. New York Whirlwinds Tie, 1 game each for Championship v. Original Celtics)
1922 EL Trenton Royal Bengals 1st place,first half (lose playoffs 2 games to 1 to NY Celtics)
1922 EL New York Celtics 1st place,second half
Champions (beat Trenton 2 games to 1 in playoffs)
1922 MBL NY MacDowell Lyceum 1st place tie
1922 MBL Brooklyn Dodgers 1st place tie
Champions (win playoffs due to New York Macs strike)
1923 EL Trenton Royal Bengals 1st place,first half. Lead 2nd half when EL suspends operations.
Claim National Championship due to win over Original Celtics.
1923 MBL New York Celtics 1st place,first half (drop out of league for 2nd half)
Also played two weeks as Atlantic City Celtics in Eastern League at its end.
Also barnstorm. Total season record of 193-11-1
1923 MBL Paterson Legionnaires 1st place 2nd half
Champions (beat Elizabeth 2 games to 1 in playoffs)
[Actually Kingston,also NY State Lg. 1923 Champions]
Kingston claim World Title, defeating Original Celtics 3 games to 2.
1924 MBL Brooklyn Visitations Champions (winners of both halves)
1925 MBL Brooklyn Visitations 1st place,second half
Champions (beat Kingston Colonels 2 games to 1 in playoffs) Had transferred from Passaic mid-1st half.
1926 ABL Brooklyn Arcadians 1st place,first half (lose playoffs 3 games to 0 to Cleveland Rosenblums)
1926 MBL Yonkers Indians 1st place,first half
1926 MBL Greenpoint Knights 1st place,second half
Champions (beat Yonkers 2 games to 1 in playoffs)
1927 ABL Brooklyn Celtics 1st place,second half (started season as Brooklyn Arcadians franchise; transferred to Celtics)
Champions (beat Cleveland Rosenblums 6 games to 0 in playoffs)
1927 MBL Brooklyn Visitations 1st place,first half
1927 MBL Paterson Crescents 1st place,second half
Champions (beat Paterson 3 games to 0 in playoffs)
1927 NBL NY-Arcola Orig. Celtics 1st place Dropped out of league.
1927 NBL Brooklyn Visitations Champions
1928 ABL New York Celtics 1st place,East Conferance
Champions (beat Fort Wayne Caseys 3 games to 1 in playoffs)
1931 ABL Brooklyn Visitations 1st place,first half
Champions (beat Fort Wayne 4 games to 2 in playoffs)
1932 ABL Brooklyn Visitations (lose playoffs)
1932 MBL Brooklyn Jewels 1st place tie (lose platoffs 2 games to 1 to Visitations)
1932 MBL Brooklyn Visitations 1st place tie
Champions (beat Jewels 2 games to 1 in playofs)
1933 Ind NY Renaissance Big Five Mythical World Title (120-8)
1933 EL Trenton Moose 1st place,second half
Champions (beat Philadelphia Sphas 3 games to 1 in playoffs)
1933 MBL Union City Reds 1st place,second half (lose playoffs 2 games to 0 to Brooklyn Jewels
1933 MBL Brooklyn Jewels 1st place,first half
Champions (beat Union City 2 games to 0 in playoffs)
1934 ABL Brooklyn Jewels 1st place tie,first half (lose 1 game playoff to Trenton Moose)
1034 ABL Trenton Moose 1st place tie,first half (beat Jewels in 1 game playoff for title)
1935 ABL New York Jewels 1st place,first half.(lose playoffs 2 games to 3 to Bklyn.) Was Brooklyn Jewels.
1935 ABL Brooklyn Visitations 1st place tie, second half (beat Philadelphia Hebrews 2 games to 0 for title)
Champions (beat New York Jewels 3 games to 2 in finals)
1936 ABL Brooklyn Visitations 1st place,second half (lose finals 4 games to 3 to Philadelphia Hebrews)
1937 ABL Jersey Reds 1st place,first half (lose finals 4 games to 3 to Philadelphia Hebrews)
1938 ABL New York Jewels 1st place,2nd half (lose to Jersey Reds 4 games to 2 in playoffs)
1938 ABL Jersey Reds 1st place,1st half
Champions (beat NY Jewels 4 games to 2 in finals)
1939 ABL New York Jewels Champions (beat Jersey Reds 3 games to 0 in finals)
1939 Ind New York Rens Champions-World Tournament, Chicago
1941 ABL Brooklyn Celtics 1st place,second half (lose finals 3 games to 1 to Philadelphia Hebrews) Were Troy Celtics beginning of season.
1943 ABL Trenton Tigers 1st place (lose finals 4 games to 3 to Philadelphia Hebrews)
1953 NBA NY Knickerbockers 1st place,East Division (lose to Minneapolis Lakers 4 games to 1 in playoffs)
1939 New York Rens Champions (Rens 34-Oshkosh All-Stars 24 in final) 1944 Brooklyn Eagles lose final (50-33 to Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons) 1948 New York Rens lose final (75-71 to Minneapolis Lakers) Records of various NY area teams in World Professional Basketball Tournament, Chicago Stadium: 1939: New York Yankees 1-1 New York Celtics 0-1 New York Rens 3-0, 1st 1940: New York Rens 1-1 1941: New York Rens 3-1, 3rd place 1942: New York Rens 1-1 Long Island Grumman Flyers 3-1, 3rd place 1944 Brooklyn Eagles 3-1, 2nd New York Rens 2-2, 4th 1945: New York Rens 2-2, 4th 1946: New York Rens 1-1 Newark C-O Twos 0-1 Long Island Grumman Hellcats 0-1 1947: Herkimer(NY) Mohawk Redskins 0-1 New York Rens 0-1 1948: Bridgeport Newfield Steelers 0-1 New York Rens 2-1, 2nd
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