1942–43 Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons season

The 1942–43 season was the second season of the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons franchise in the National Basketball League. The Pistons came into the season off of a championship appearance and ended the year with a 17–6 record that earned them the #1 seed in the playoffs and set the team up as clear favorites to win the championship. After defeating Chicago in the first round in 3 games the Pistons were upset by the Sheboygan Red Skins in the NBL Championship Series. Following this season's conclusion, the Zollner Pistons' players (who were also employed into the local Zollner Piston Company during their days in the NBL) would split the profits that the team had earned throughout the season while playing basketball on a professional basis, which resulted in their players earning several thousand dollars of bonus revenue through the split payment at hand while also working their jobs that focused mostly on machinery (thus having the best payment plan out of the four remaining NBL teams that season when compared to the Chicago Studebaker Flyers' players working for and being owned by the United Auto Workers Union and both the Oshkosh All-Stars and Sheboygan Red Skins operating in manners similar to the nearby Green Bay Packers NFL team), which later helped result in the increased growth of salaries for all professional sports players, not just those in the sport of basketball. After the season, Red Skins guard Buddy Jeannette joined Fort Wayne to form one of the best backcourts in NBL History with Bobby McDermott, along with one of basketballs earliest examples of a super team.