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1952–53 Pawtucket Slaters season — Wikipedia (en)

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The 1952–53 Pawtucket Slaters season was the first and only season of play for the Pawtucket Slaters from Pawtucket, Rhode Island (although it's suggested they were originally meant to play in the capital city of Providence, Rhode Island instead) in the revived (yet clearly struggling) original version of the American Basketball League. Originally, the Slaters were meant to be joined alongside the Jersey City Titans to originally compete as one of eight teams looking to win the ABL's championship for the season, but the Titans alongside the Elmira Colonels initially left the ABL out to dry early in its original starting point for the season (to the point where the ABL briefly cancelled its 1952–53 season entirely) due to them each having players from the 1951 college basketball point-shaving scandal being a part of their teams before the Colonels decided to relent on the ABL's demands and accept the waiving of Bill Spivey on their team to have seven teams competing in the league by November 13, 1952 for what would later become its final season of existence. Even with the ABL later returning to form under a new seven-team operation by November 1952 instead, they would still see plenty of struggles occur throughout the league, as the Middletown Guards and the Hazleton / Glen Falls-Saratoga Harlem Yankees would end up folding operations to have only five teams remaining throughout the season (with the Scranton Miners briefly leaving the ABL themselves as well during the season from late December 1952 to early January 1953 as well). With all of that in mind, despite the Slaters being one of the more stable teams remaining in the ABL throughout the season, they were also one of the worst teams competing in the league as well, with them replacing player-coach Ernie Calverley (who previously played with the BAA's Providence Steamrollers) with player-coach Earl Shannon (who previously was with the Providence Steamrollers and the Boston Celtics) at some currently unknown point in time in their season in a vain attempt to be competitive in a season where trouble occurred all over the place with the ABL. In the end, Pawtucket would end their season with a 6–19 record for a fifth place finish, with the Slaters being denied a playoff spot in their only season of play and later folding operations in relation to the ABL's own closure following this season's conclusion.

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