Fort Wayne Pistons
1953-54 Season Recap

Teams Detroit Fort Wayne Pistons 1953-54 Season Recap

The Pistons continue to improve finishing in 3rd place with a solid record of 40-32. However, the Pistons would not win a game in the playoffs as the NBA experiment with a round robin format as the Pistons lose 2 game to both the Rochester Royals and Minneapolis Lakers.

1954 Pistons

1953-54 Fort Wayne PistonsPistons

Lost Round Robin

40-32 (.556)

3rd place in NBA Western Division

Head Coach

Paul Birch

General Manager

Carl Bennett
Fred Zollner

Team Owner

Fred Zollner

Arena

War Memorial Coliseum

Attendance

113,889 total
4,218 per game

1954 Draft Picks

Round Pick Player

1 4 Dick Rosenthal

2 13 Arnold Short

3 22 BH Born

4 31 Mel Thompson

5 40 Dutch Burch

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Recap

Lost Round Robin

1954 Draft Picks

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