During the summer of 1933, Metropolitan Basketball League president recruited the Eastern Basketball League’s two best teams, the Philadelphia Sphas and Trenton Moose, to join. The EBL faded into minor league status for several years before its demise.
1st Half | |||||||||||||||||||
| TEAM | W | L | Pct | GB | |||||||||||||||
| x |  | Phi. Sphas | 15 | 6 | .714 | - | |||||||||||||
 | Trenton | 10 | 6 | .625 | 2.5 | ||||||||||||||
 | Phi. Moose | 9 | 7 | .563 | 3.5 | ||||||||||||||
| | Bridgeton | 10 | 8 | .556 | 3.5 | ||||||||||||||
 | Jasper | 7 | 10 | .412 | 6.0 | ||||||||||||||
| | Wilmington | 0 | 10 | .000 | 9.5 | ||||||||||||||
2nd Half | |||||||||||||||||||
| x | | Trenton | 14 | 1 | .933 | - | |||||||||||||
| | Phi. Moose | 10 | 4 | .714 | 3.5 | ||||||||||||||
| | Phi. Sphas | 8 | 7 | .533 | 6.0 | ||||||||||||||
| | Bridgeton | 5 | 5 | .500 | 6.5 | ||||||||||||||
| | Jasper | 3 | 10 | .231 | 10.0 | ||||||||||||||
| | Phi. WPEN | 1 | 14 | .067 | 13.0 | ||||||||||||||
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