The following are all teams that no longer exist:

• The Anderson Packers were a National Basketball Association team based in Anderson, Indiana from 1949 until 1950. The Packers had also played in the National Basketball League before joining the NBA. Their home arena was the Anderson High School Wigwam.
• The Baltimore Bullets were an American Basketball League (1944-47) team, and later, a Basketball Association of America (1947-49), and (beginning in 1949, following the BAA's merger with the National Basketball League) a National Basketball Association team based in Baltimore, Maryland.
• The Chicago Stags were founded in 1946 and folded in 1950. Despite their short history, they were able to acquire the draft rights to a young Bob Cousy in a trade with the Tri-Cities Blackhawks (although he never played a game for them). When the Stags folded, a dispersal draft was held to divide up their players around the league. Bob Cousy was drafted by the Boston Celtics.
• The Cleveland 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.
• The Indianapolis Jets joined the NBA after playing in the National Basketball League as the Indianapolis Kautskys. The team played one season in the NBA before folding. They were replaced by the Indianapolis Olympians.
• The Indianapolis Olympians were founded in 1949 to replace the Indianapolis Jets. The Olympians were led by University of Kentucky alumni Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, both of whom were key contributors on the gold medal winning 1948 US Olympic basketball team. Olympic team members Wallace Jones and Cliff Barker (both also Kentucky alumni), also played on the team. The Olympians compiled a 132-137 record in four seasons in the NBA. After the 1951 season, Groza and Beard were suspended from the NBA for life by commissioner Maurice Podoloff for a severe point shaving scandal. The Olympians finished with a 28-43 record in 1953, and folded after that season.
• The Pittsburgh Ironmen were a member of the Basketball Association of America (a forerunner of the National Basketball Association) team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They ended their only season in the BAA in 1946-47 with a record of 15-45, finishing in fifth and last place in the Western Division.
• The Providence Steamrollers were one of the original eleven NBA franchises (when the league was called the Basketball Association of America). The franchise posted an all-time record of 46-122 (.274) before folding after three seasons. The Steamrollers still hold the dubious NBA record for least games won in a season with 6, in the 1947-1948 season (although they do not hold the record for lowest winning percentage - that distinction belongs to the 1973 Philadelphia 76ers). Also during that season, the Steamrollers' Nat Hickey, at age 46, became the oldest player in NBA history.
• The Sheboygan Red Skins played in the National Basketball League from 1938 to 1949, led the league in defense five times, appeared in five championship series and won the 1942-43 title, defeating the league-leading Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (today's Detroit Pistons) in the finals. Sheboygan and six other NBL teams merged with the 10-team Basketball Association of America on Aug. 3, 1949, to become the National Basketball Association. The Red Skins played the 1949-50 season in the NBA and qualified for the playoffs, where they nearly upset the Western Division champion Indianapolis Olympians. They withdrew from the NBA on April 24, 1950, and then joined the new National Professional Basketball League. Sheboygan posted the NPBL's best record (29-16) in 1950-51, after which the league dissolved.
• The St. Louis Bombers were originally part of the BAA (Basketball Association of America) in 1946. The BAA merged with the NBL (National Basketball League) in 1949 to become the NBA (National Basketball Association). Subsequently in 1950 the Bombers along with five other teams dropped out of the league altogether. The Bombers played their home games at the St. Louis Arena.
• The Toronto Huskies hosted the first game in the history of the BAA versus the New York Knicks. The team went 22-38 in its only season before going out of business.
• The Washington Capitols were a charter Basketball Association of America (forerunner of the National Basketball Association) team based in Washington, D.C.
• The Waterloo Hawks were founded in 1948, playing in the National Basketball League. In 1949, the National Basketball League merged with the rival Basketball Association of America, forming the National Basketball Association; the Hawks were thus a founding member of the NBA. In the 1949-1950 season, their first and last in the NBA, they finished 19-43, fifth out of six in the Western Division.