The 1962–63 NBA season was the 17th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Boston Celtics winning their 5th straight NBA Championship, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals.
The season began with a shock, as the Philadelphia Warriors had left for San Francisco. The Warriors, whose lineage in basketball dates back to the Philadelphia Sphas of the 1920s, had been a fixture for decades in Phi...
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The 1962–63 NBA season was the 17th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Boston Celtics winning their 5th straight NBA Championship, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals.
The season began with a shock, as the Philadelphia Warriors had left for San Francisco. The Warriors, whose lineage in basketball dates back to the Philadelphia Sphas of the 1920s, had been a fixture for decades in Philadelphia, one of pro basketball's essential cities. It would be a weird year in Philadelphia, where no team would play until the Syracuse Nationals moved there the following season. The Cincinnati Royals were promptly shifted to the NBA's East Division to replace them, a fact the Royals would soon come to regret.
The existence of a rival league, the American Basketball League, also was a big factor this year. Globetrotters' owner and legend Abe Saperstein started the league as an act of revenge when he did not get an NBA franchise in Los...
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