In addition to the 15 defunct BAA/NBA teams that did play in the league, there were also eight teams that were initially planned to join the BAA/NBA at various stages of the league's existence that ultimately never came to pass for one reason or another, with six of them being charter or expansion franchises to the league in question and two teams that were planned to join from other professional basketball leagues.[8] Two franchises that were planned to be charter members for the BAA out inBuffalo andIndianapolis dropped out of the league almost immediately after their inaugural meeting was completed.[9][10] Four other teams that were planned to exist at various points in the NBA's history as expansion franchises (one for Pittsburgh by the1961–62 NBA season, one for Baltimore by the1963–64 NBA season, one for Houston by the1970–71 NBA season,[11][12] and one for Toronto by the1975–76 NBA season), but they never made it through as proper franchises in the NBA for one reason or another.[13] The seventh that was planned for the NBA, theOshkosh All-Stars, were planned to move to Milwaukee to become the Milwaukee All-Stars (potentially also merging operations with an independent team that was operating there called the Milwaukee Shooting Stars along the way there) for the1949–50 NBA season following the official merger of the BAA and the olderNational Basketball League, which the All-Stars were a part of throughout their Oshkosh history, but the All-Stars reneged on their plans to move to Milwaukee and left the NBA by September 3, 1949 to play for the much smaller and more local-based Wisconsin State Basketball League instead, which affected the overall structure of that specific season for the NBA in the process.[14][15] The eighth and final team that was planned for the NBA, theCleveland Pipers, had planned to jump from thesecond rendition of the American Basketball League after winning its only championship there and merge operations with theKansas City Steers if they had been approved for entry into the NBA, but they were ultimately rejected and instead folded operations soon afterward.[16]
^Rosen, Charley (2009).The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.ISBN978-0-07-148785-6., pp. 25–35
^Nelson, Murry R. (2009).The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.ISBN978-0-7864-4006-1., pp. 223–224
^Livingston, Bill (2015).George Steinbrenner's Pipe Dream: The ABL Champion Cleveland Pipers. Black Squirrel Books.ISBN978-1-60635-261-8., pp. 187–200
^"Anderson Packers".basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived fromthe original on May 11, 2010. RetrievedJuly 4, 2009.
