The 1953-54 Baltimore Bullets season was the Bullets' 7th season in the NBA and 10th overall season of existence.1953-54 Baltimore Bullets It would also become their final full season of play as a whole. Ray Felix won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award.

Draft picks

Round Pick Player Position Nationality College / Club 1 1 Ray Felix C Manchester British-Americans (ABL) 2 8 Don Ackerman PG Manchester British-Americans (ABL) 3 17 Bob Peterson SF/PF Oregon 4 26 Paul Nolen C Texas Tech 5 35 Bill Schyman — DePaul 6 44 Elmer Tolson — Eastern Kentucky 7 53 Herman Sledzik — Penn State 8 62 Connie Rea SG/SF Centenary College 9 71 Dennis Murphy SG/SF Georgetown 10 80 Jack Carby — Kansas State 11 88 Don Stemmerich — Clarion State 12 95 Russ Johnson — DePaul 13 102 Bob Karbach — Pepperdine 14 105 Joe Piorkowski — Penn State 15 108 Jack Walsh — Equitable Life Insurancemen (AAU(?)) 16 111 Rich Gott — Murray State For the second time in franchise history, the Baltimore Bullets would obtain the #1 pick in the NBA draft. Unlike the last time they acquired the #1 pick, however, their #1 pick would actually play for the Bullets in the NBA, as well as previously play for another professional basketball team before entering the NBA properly with the Manchester British-Americans in the soon-to-be-defunct American Basketball League (ABL) that the Bullets used to be a part of during its heyday. Their #1 pick of the draft, Ray Felix, would later win the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. In addition to that, they would also trade their second round pick, Don Ackerman, to the New York Knicks as the first ever draft day trade in order to satisfy payment for Ray Lumpp going to Baltimore for cash, though the Bullets also acquired the Milwaukee Hawks' second round pick, Bobby Speight (who never played in the NBA), in a different draft day trade in exchange for the recently rebranded Milwaukee Hawks to pay back Baltimore for several players they previously acquired during the previous season while playing as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks.

Roster

Regular season Season standings

Game log 1953–54 Game log # Date Opponent Score High points Record 1 October 31 vs. Rochester 72–68 Max Zaslofsky (24) 0–1 2 November 1 Rochester 80–72 Max Zaslofsky (22) 0–2 3 November 4 Minneapolis 77–75 Ray Felix (20) 0–3 4 November 7 vs. Syracuse 88–77 Max Zaslofsky (23) 0–4 5 November 8 Philadelphia 85–75 Leo Barnhorst (15) 0–5 6 November 14 New York 83–88 Max Zaslofsky (19) 1–5 7 November 15 @ New York 79–91 Max Zaslofsky (15) 1–6 8 November 18 Milwaukee 74–104 Leo Barnhorst (22) 2–6 9 November 19 vs. New York 96–85 Max Zaslofsky (24) 2–7 10 November 21 vs. Philadelphia 103–83 Eddie Miller (19) 2–8 11 November 24 @ Philadelphia 80–83 Ray Felix (18) 2–9 12 November 25 vs. Syracuse 58–66 Jim Fritsche (11) 3–9 13 November 26 Rochester 80–75 (OT) Ray Felix (19) 3–10 14 November 28 Fort Wayne 92–81 Jim Fritsche (24) 3–11 15 November 29 @ Syracuse 82–101 Ray Felix (21) 3–12 16 December 5 @ Rochester 65–72 Ray Felix (19) 3–13 17 December 6 Boston 102–95 (OT) Eddie Miller (32) 3–14 18 December 9 Syracuse 77–92 Ray Felix (24) 4–14 19 December 10 vs. Philadelphia 83–77 Ray Felix (17) 4–15 20 December 12 @ Boston 75–106 Eddie Miller (17) 4–16 21 December 13 Milwaukee 73–70 Ray Felix (17) 4–17 22 December 17 Minneapolis 64–75 Bob Houbregs (15) 5–17 23 December 19 New York 65–63 Ray Felix (14) 5–18 24 December 20 @ New York 67–75 Ray Felix (18) 5–19 25 December 23 Syracuse 76–72 Ray Felix (23) 5–20 26 December 25 vs. Minneapolis 88–78 Ray Felix (23) 6–20 27 December 29 @ Rochester 77–96 Ray Felix (20) 6–21 28 December 30 New York 79–86 Ray Felix (26) 7–21 29 January 1 @ Milwaukee 52–62 Ray Felix (15) 7–22 30 January 2 Boston 92–77 Ray Felix (23) 7–23 31 January 3 vs. Boston 72–90 Ray Felix (35) 7–24 32 January 4 vs. Boston 77–73 Ray Felix (21) 7–25 33 January 6 Fort Wayne 90–78 Ray Felix (28) 7–26 34 January 7 @ New York 70–82 Ray Felix (32) 7–27 35 January 9 Philadelphia 90–95 Ray Felix (25) 8–27 36 January 10 @ Syracuse 73–77 Eddie Miller (22) 8–28 37 January 12 vs. Fort Wayne 97–66 Ray Felix (18) 8–29 38 January 14 vs. Fort Wayne 81–74 Felix, Roges (15) 8–30 39 January 16 Philadelphia 72–82 Al Roges (22) 9–30 40 January 17 vs. Philadelphia 74–78 Hoffman, Roges (16) 10–30 41 January 23 Syracuse 91–98 Al Roges (23) 11–30 42 January 24 @ Fort Wayne 70–79 Leo Barnhorst (16) 11–31 43 January 26 vs. Boston 94–69 Barnhorst, Houbregs (13) 11–32 44 January 27 @ Minneapolis 73–76 Ray Felix (32) 11–33 45 January 28 vs. Minneapolis 104–82 Al Roges (18) 11–34 46 January 30 Philadelphia 74–80 Felix, Houbregs (13) 12–34 47 February 3 Milwaukee 78–72 Bob Houbregs (16) 12–35 48 February 4 Minneapolis 82–70 Ray Felix (19) 12–36 49 February 6 @ New York 83–98 Ray Felix (24) 12–37 50 February 7 Rochester 73–75 Bob Houbregs (18) 13–37 51 February 8 vs. Boston 87–75 Ray Felix (18) 13–38 52 February 10 vs. Philadelphia 97–79 Al Roges (15) 13–39 53 February 11 @ Minneapolis 82–110 Ray Felix (18) 13–40 54 February 12 vs. Philadelphia 75–72 Rollen Hans (26) 13–41 55 February 13 Boston 93–96 Eddie Miller (27) 14–41 56 February 14 @ Syracuse 91–111 Felix, Miller (20) 14–42 57 February 17 New York 80–84 Al Roges (23) 15–42 58 February 20 Fort Wayne 87–85 Ray Felix (24) 15–43 59 February 21 vs. New York 85–76 Ray Felix (21) 15–44 60 February 22 vs. Boston 111–110 (3OT) Felix, Houbregs (29) 15–45 61 February 24 Rochester 79–64 Eddie Miller (15) 15–46 62 February 25 vs. Rochester 102–86 Ray Felix (21) 15–47 63 February 27 Minneapolis 95–85 Ray Felix (22) 15–48 64 March 3 Milwaukee 103–100 Paul Hoffman (29) 15–49 65 March 4 vs. Milwaukee 87–95 Rollen Hans (29) 16–49 66 March 6 Fort Wayne 76–71 Paul Hoffman (21) 16–50 67 March 7 @ Syracuse 77–103 Bob Houbregs (20) 16–51 68 March 8 @ Milwaukee 54–64 Eddie Miller (21) 16–52 69 March 8 @ Milwaukee 54–65 Bob Houbregs (14) 16–53 70 March 10 Syracuse 85–77 Ray Felix (16) 16–54 71 March 13 @ Boston 85–97 Ray Felix (21) 16–55 72 March 14 @ Fort Wayne 86–91 Eddie Miller (21) 16–56

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