Brooklyn Visitations
The Brooklyn Visitations (also known as the Triangles) were an American basketball team based in Brooklyn, New York City, that was a member of the Metropolitan Basketball League and the American Basketball League.{{Cite book |last=Valle |first=Cezar Joseph Del |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_WZDDMeW3cC |title=The Brooklyn Theatre Index Volume II Manhattan Avenue to York Street |date=October 2010 |publisher=Cezar Del Valle |isbn=978-0-9827724-1-6 |language=en}} The Visitations' home court was Prospect Hall, where fans were made to check their guns at the door.{{Cite book |last=Levine |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjOYf1YAhaoC |title=Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience |date=1993-09-09 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-535900-8 |pages=66 |language=en}}
After the 1935/36 season the team became the Paterson Visitations.{{cite news |title=Visitations Quintet Shifted |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/10/30/archives/visitation-quintet-shifted.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.6YZT.PVWT6nVN2PtN&smid=url-share |access-date=22 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=30 October 1936}} Then, during the 1st half of the 1936/37 season, the team moved back to Brooklyn on November 21, 1936, and became the Brooklyn Visitations again.
Year-by-year
| class="wikitable"
!Year !League !Reg. Season !Playoffs |
| 1921/22
|MBL |4th |No playoff |
| 1922/23
|MBL |3rd (1st half); 5th (2nd half) |Did not qualify |
| 1923/24
|MBL |bgcolor="B3B7FF"|1st (1st half); 1st (2nd half) |bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion (no playoff) |
| 1924/25
|MBL |2nd (1st half); 1st (2nd half) |bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion |
| 1925/26
|MBL |5th (1st half); 2nd (2nd half) |Did not qualify |
| 1926/27
|MBL |1st (1st half); 2nd (2nd half) |bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion |
| 1927/28
|MBL |3rd |No playoff |
| 1928/29
|ABL |3rd (1st half); 2nd (2nd half) |Did not qualify |
| 1929/30
|ABL |2nd (1st half); 4th (2nd half) |Did not qualify |
| 1930/31
|ABL |1st (1st half); 3rd (2nd half) |
| 1932
|MBL |bgcolor="B3B7FF"|1st(t) |bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion |
| 1932/33
|MBL |3rd (1st half); 3rd (2nd half) |Did not qualify |
| 1933/34
|ABL |4th (1st half); 8th (2nd half) |Did not qualify |
| 1934/35
|ABL |3rd (1st half); 1st(t) (2nd half) |bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion |
| 1935/36
|ABL |3rd (1st half); 1st (2nd half) |Finals |
| 1936/37
|ABL |5th (1st half); 3rd (2nd half) |Did not qualify |
| 1937/38
|ABL |3rd (1st half); 6th (2nd half) |Did not qualify |
| 1938/39
|ABL |7th |Did not qualify |
References
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{{Brooklyn Visitations 1931–32 MBL champions}}
{{Brooklyn Visitations 1934–35 ABL champions}}
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