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1927–28 Fort Wayne Hoosiers season — Wikipedia (en)

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The 1927–28 Fort Wayne Hoosiers season was both the Hoosiers' third season of existence as a professional franchise (albeit after previously playing their first professional season under the Fort Wayne Caseys name, though the Hoosiers were also sometimes referred to as the Guards instead) in the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana and the third season of existence for the American Basketball League, which was the first professional basketball league that had truly attempted to go fully national after previous professional basketball leagues were mostly regional at the time. For the first season ever in the league's history (and the only time in its inaugural period of existence), the ABL would abandon its split season formatting to have one whole regular season of play, with the eight teams there competing in two divisions of four teams each (with Fort Wayne competing in the Western Division, while teams such as the Original Celtics (labeled as the New York (Original) Celtics during this season) and the Philadelphia Warriors competed in the Eastern Division this season). While the Eastern Division was described as something more like a bloodbath to those that had witnessed the season at hand (to the point where the Washington Palace Five (/ Laundrymen) team would end up having their franchise rights be moved out and swapped around with the Brooklyn Visitations by what would unofficially be considered the start of the second half of the season on January 3, 1928, until the end of that franchise's existence (pretty much)), the Western Division was seen as more like a joke whose two best teams were already decided by the halfway point of the season due to the Detroit Cardinals / Olympians folding operations on January 3, 1928, as well following a doubleheader series victory they had, as well as the Chicago Bruins holding the worst record of the surviving teams left in the Western Division throughout this season. As a result of that factoid, the Hoosiers would see scant competition come their way within the Western Division, as they would be the only team with a winning record in the Western Division to end the season, which resulted in them having an easy first-place finish there. The scant competition would continue onward in the Western Division playoff series they had against the Cleveland Rosenblums (who made it to the playoff round despite them having a losing record this season), where the Hoosiers would sweep the Rosenblums 2–0 in the playoff series they had in order to qualify for the ABL championship series for the first time in their history, this time against the Original Celtics under the New York (Original) Celtics name. Interestingly, Fort Wayne would have home court advantage in this championship series despite them having a worse overall record than the Celtics, who had an insurmountable 40–9 record on their ends by comparison. While the Hoosiers would end up evening out the series with the Hoosiers winning Game 2 after the Celtics won Game 

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