Franchises
- New York Knicks: 1946 to ?
Team Records
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Season | Tm | Lg | G | W | L | W/L% | W > .500 | Finish | G | W | L | W/L% | Notes | |
1946-47 | NYK | BAA | 60 | 33 | 27 | .550 | 3.0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .400 | ||
1947-48 | NYK | BAA | 48 | 26 | 22 | .542 | 2.0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | .333 | ||
1948-49 | NYK | BAA | 60 | 32 | 28 | .533 | 2.0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | .500 | ||
1949-50 | NYK | NBA | 68 | 40 | 28 | .588 | 6.0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | .600 | ||
1950-51 | NYK | NBA | 66 | 36 | 30 | .545 | 3.0 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 6 | .571 | ||
1951-52 | NYK | NBA | 66 | 37 | 29 | .561 | 4.0 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 6 | .571 | ||
1952-53 | NYK | NBA | 70 | 47 | 23 | .671 | 12.0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | .545 | ||
1953-54 | NYK | NBA | 72 | 44 | 28 | .611 | 8.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | .000 | ||
1954-55 | NYK | NBA | 72 | 38 | 34 | .528 | 2.0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | .333 | ||
1955-56 | NYK | NBA | 73 | 35 | 38 | .479 | -1.5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
1956-57 | NYK | NBA | 72 | 36 | 36 | .500 | 0.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Career | 727 | 404 | 323 | .556 | 40.5 | 65 | 32 | 33 | .492 |
Draft Picks, Trades, and Free Agent Signings
- In some cases the starting date and/or ending date for
an executive could not be found, so conservative estimates are used in
their place.
Therefore, transactions from the beginning and/or end of an executive's tenure with a particular franchise may be missing from the register below.
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March 31, 1946: Hired Joe Lapchick as Head Coach.
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July 8, 1946: Hired Neil Cohalan as Head Coach.
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December 2, 1946: Sold player rights to Jake Weber to the Providence Steam Rollers.
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January 16, 1947: Sold player rights to Ralph Kaplowitz to the Philadelphia Warriors.
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January 21, 1947: Traded Bob Mullens to the Toronto Huskies for Bob Fitzgerald.
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January 26, 1947: Sold player rights to Hank Rosenstein to the Providence Steam Rollers.
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February, 1947: Sold player rights to Nat Militzok to the Toronto Huskies.
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July 1, 1947: Selected Dick Holub (1st round, 5th pick), Tom Tomlinson (10th round, ?? pick), Garland Head (4th round, ?? pick), Carl Reichert (9th round, ?? pick), Ray Evans (2nd round, ?? pick), Andy Duncan (6th round, ?? pick), Ed Golub (3rd round, ?? pick), Ron Livingston (5th round, ?? pick), Dan Miller (8th round, ?? pick), Wat Misaka (7th round, ?? pick) and Dolph Schayes (1st round, 4th pick) in the 1947 BAA Draft.
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July 1, 1947: Selected Dick Holub (1st round, 5th pick), Tom Tomlinson (10th round, ?? pick), Garland Head (4th round, ?? pick), Carl Reichert (9th round, ?? pick), Ray Evans (2nd round, ?? pick), Andy Duncan (6th round, ?? pick), Ed Golub (3rd round, ?? pick), Ron Livingston (5th round, ?? pick), Dan Miller (8th round, ?? pick), Wat Misaka (7th round, ?? pick) and Dolph Schayes (1st round, 4th pick) in the 1947 BAA Draft.
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May 10, 1948: Selected Gene Berce (6th round, ?? pick), Leland Byrd (8th round, ?? pick), Harry Gallatin (2nd round, ?? pick), Keith Grimes (9th round, ?? pick), Mel McGaha (3rd round, ?? pick), Ed Peterson (4th round, ?? pick), Tex Ritter (7th round, ?? pick), Dick Shrider (5th round, ?? pick) and John Stanich (10th round, ?? pick) in the 1948 BAA Draft.
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October 13, 1948: Sold player rights to Stan Stutz to the Boston Celtics.
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October 25, 1948: Acquired player rights to Irv Rothenberg from the St. Louis Bombers.
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January 26, 1949: Traded Tommy Byrnes and cash to the Indianapolis Jets for Ray Lumpp.
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February 11, 1949: Traded Sid Tanenbaum to the Baltimore Bullets for Connie Simmons. Simmons was sent as the player to be named later in July 1949.
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March 21, 1949: Selected Dick McGuire (1st round, 8th pick), Harry Donovan (?? round, ?? pick), Ernie Vandeweghe (?? round, ?? pick), Bill Kleine (?? round, ?? pick), Don Bagley (?? round, ?? pick), Bob Prewitt (?? round, ?? pick), Ken Kearns (?? round, ?? pick), Bill Litchfield (?? round, ?? pick) and Harry Gallatin (2nd round, 20th pick) in the 1949 BAA Draft.
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May, 1949: Acquired player rights to Tommy Byrnes from the Indianapolis Jets.
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December 6, 1949: Signed Ed Bartels as a free agent.
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December 8, 1949: Sold player rights to Lee Knorek to the Baltimore Bullets.
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April 25, 1950: Selected Irwin Dambrot (1st round, 7th pick), Herb Scherer (2nd round, 19th pick), Stan Weber (3rd round, 31st pick), Joe Ossola (4th round, 43rd pick), Dick Barnes (5th round, 55th pick), Don Parsons (6th round, 67th pick), Dan Bagley (7th round, 79th pick), Charles Hope (8th round, 91st pick) and Don Heathington (9th round, 103rd pick) in the 1950 NBA Draft.
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June 21, 1950: Acquired player rights to George Kaftan from the Boston Celtics.
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August 10, 1950: Traded Paul Noel to the Rochester Royals for Ray Ellefson.
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November 22, 1950: Signed Tony Lavelli as a free agent.
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April 25, 1951: Selected Ed Smith (1st round, 6th pick), Roland Minson (2nd round, 16th pick), Joe Luchi (3rd round, 26th pick), Lloyd Sandstrom (4th round, 36th pick), Tom Smith (5th round, 46th pick), Alfred McGuire (6th round, 56th pick), Sid Ryen (7th round, 66th pick) and Ralph Polson (1st round, 6th pick) in the 1951 NBA Draft.
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April 25, 1951: Selected Ed Smith (1st round, 6th pick), Roland Minson (2nd round, 16th pick), Joe Luchi (3rd round, 26th pick), Lloyd Sandstrom (4th round, 36th pick), Tom Smith (5th round, 46th pick), Alfred McGuire (6th round, 56th pick), Sid Ryen (7th round, 66th pick) and Ralph Polson (1st round, 6th pick) in the 1951 NBA Draft.
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April 26, 1952: Selected Roy Belliveau (4th round, ?? pick), Dick Bunt (3rd round, ?? pick), Bert Cook (2nd round, ?? pick), Ben Gibson (5th round, ?? pick), Jim Julian (7th round, ?? pick), Paul Sullivan (8th round, ?? pick) and Dick Surhoff (6th round, ?? pick) in the 1952 NBA Draft.
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November 20, 1952: Sold player rights to George Kaftan to the Baltimore Bullets.
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November 28, 1952: Traded Ray Lumpp to the Baltimore Bullets for cash.
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December 11, 1952: Sold player rights to Ralph Polson to the Philadelphia Warriors.
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April 7, 1953: Signed Jerry Fleishman as a free agent.
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April 24, 1953: Selected Walter Dukes (1st round, 8th pick), Don Ackerman (2nd round, 11th pick), Neil Gordon (2nd round, 17th pick), Joe Smyth (6th round, ?? pick), Alan Schutts (8th round, ?? pick), Dick Atha (3rd round, ?? pick), Forrest Hamilton (9th round, ?? pick), Bob Santini (5th round, ?? pick), Thomas Bishop (4th round, ?? pick), Richard Prater (10th round, ?? pick), Bob Matheny (7th round, ?? pick), Larry O'Connor (11th round, ?? pick) and Delmer Diercks (12th round, ?? pick) in the 1953 NBA Draft.
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August 24, 1953: Traded Roy Belliveau, Jim Luisi and Max Zaslofsky to the Baltimore Bullets for Jim Baechtold.
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December 29, 1953: Acquired player rights to Fred Schaus from the Fort Wayne Pistons.
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April 24, 1954: Selected Jack Turner (1st round, 8th pick), Richie Guerin (2nd round, 17th pick), Don Anielak (3rd round, 26th pick), Don Lange (4th round, 35th pick), Jesse Priscock (5th round, 44th pick), Ron Rivers (6th round, 53rd pick), Solly Walker (7th round, 62nd pick), Cob Jarvis (8th round, 71st pick), Henry Duckham (9th round, 79th pick), John Clune (10th round, 88th pick), Bob Waller (11th round, 96th pick) and Charles Stickels (12th round, 99th pick) in the 1954 NBA Draft.
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September 17, 1954: Traded Alfred McGuire and Connie Simmons to the Baltimore Bullets for Ray Felix and Chuck Grigsby.
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November 28, 1954: Acquired player rights to Gene Shue from the Philadelphia Warriors.
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January 10, 1955: Signed Bob Peterson as a free agent.
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January 12, 1955: Sold player rights to Paul Hoffman to the Philadelphia Warriors.
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April 13, 1955: Selected Kenny Sears (1st round, 5th pick), Jerry Mullen (2nd round, 13th pick), Guy Sparrow (3rd round, 21st pick), Ed Cole (4th round, 29th pick), Denver Brackeen (5th round, 37th pick), Jack Beck (8th round, 61st pick), Jim Fay (7th round, 53rd pick), Mickey Harrington (12th round, 91st pick), Wally McCarvill (10th round, 77th pick), Don Payne (9th round, 69th pick), Howard Sessums (6th round, 45th pick) and Charles Stickels (11th round, 84th pick) in the 1955 NBA Draft.
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February 9, 1956: Hired Vince Boryla as Head Coach.
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April 30, 1956: Selected Ron Shavlik (1st round, 4th pick), Gary Bergen (2nd round, 12th pick), Jerry Harper (3rd round, 20th pick), Ronnie Mayer (4th round, 28th pick), Joe Sexson (5th round, 36th pick), Pat Dunn (6th round, 44th pick), Jack Adams (7th round, 52nd pick), Art Bunte (8th round, 60th pick), Dick Miller (9th round, 67th pick), Howie Crittenden (10th round, 74th pick), Dick Miani (11th round, 80th pick), Ed Petrie (12th round, 84th pick) and Toby Roybal (13th round, 88th pick) in the 1956 NBA Draft.
April 30, 1956: Traded Gene Shue to the Fort Wayne Pistons for Ron Sobie.
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October 26, 1956: Traded Walter Dukes and Burdette Haldorson to the Minneapolis Lakers for Jerry Bird, Phil Jordon and Slater Martin.
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December 12, 1956: Traded Slater Martin to the St. Louis Hawks for Willie Naulls.
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