1949-50 NBA Season Standings

Sourcing caveat: The real 1949-50 season used THREE divisions: Eastern (Syracuse, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston), Central (Minneapolis, Rochester, Fort Wayne, Chicago, St. Louis), and Western (Indianapolis Olympians, Anderson Packers, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Sheboygan Red Skins, Waterloo Hawks, Denver Nuggets). Per this dataset's Eastern/Western dict-key format, the real Eastern Division is reported as-is under 'Eastern Conference,' and the real Central + Western Divisions are merged into one 'Western Conference' list of 11 teams, re-ranked by winning percentage. Because BAA-legacy teams played 68 games and NBL-legacy teams played 62, games-behind is not naturally comparable across the merged group; the GB values shown for the merged Western Conference are recalculated relative to the merged conference's leaders (Minneapolis/Rochester, tied 51-17) — this recalculation is an artifact of the requested two-bucket construction, not a claim about the historical divisional standings themselves. Denver Nuggets (1949-50) is the original, unrelated NBL/NBA franchise that folded after this season, not the later ABA/NBA Denver Nuggets founded in 1967.