1946–47 Detroit Falcons season

The 1946–47 BAA season was the first and only season for the Detroit Falcons in the Basketball Association of America (BAA/NBA). Originally, the Falcons were meant to play as a franchise in Indianapolis, but the Basketball Association of America opted to slot the franchise out into Detroit, Michigan before the start of the league's inaugural season. This season was also notable for having the lowest scoring effort by one team not just to start out a regular season in the BAA/NBA with 33 total points scored in a 50–33 loss to the Washington Capitols (for reference, only one other BAA team that same season would score less than 40 points in one game, with that team ironically being the Washington Capitols on January 16, 1947 against the Boston Celtics with 38 total points scored by Washington that night), but also held the record for the lowest scoring effort by a BAA/NBA team in one game until the Fort Wayne Pistons and Minneapolis Lakers (now known as the Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Lakers respectively) had an infamous match on November 22, 1950 that resulted in a brutal to witness 19–18 Pistons victory that subsequently led to the creation of the shot clock a few seasons afterward, helping ensure that no basketball game would ever be met with such low-scoring affairs ever again in a professional manner. After finishing with a 20–40 record, the Falcons were one of the four original BAA teams to disband following the conclusion of the first ever BAA/NBA season.