Cleveland Rebels

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The Cleveland Rebels were a Basketball Association of America (the forerunner of the modern National Basketball Association) team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The franchise played only one season, 1946-47.

The Rebels were an inaugural franchise in the BAA's first season. The team went 30-30, finishing 3rd in the Western Division and losing in the first round of the playoffs, two games to one to the New York Knickerbockers, in its only season before going out of business.

Key Personnel

• Leon Brown
• Frankie Baumholtz
• Ken Corley
• Ned Endress
• Bob Faught
• Pete Lalich
• Hank Lefkowitz
• George Nostrand
• Mel Riebe
• Irv Rothenberg
• Ed Sadowski
• Kenny Sailors
• Ben Scharnus
• Nick Shaback
• Vince Swihart
• Ray Wertis
• Roy Clifford (coach)
• Dutch Dehnert (coach)