1946-47 Cleveland Rebels Statistics

Basketball Association of America (BAA)
Team Record: 30-30
Finishing 3rd in the BAA's Western Division
Postseason: 1-2 Lost first round
Quarterfinals - Lost to New York Knicks 2-1
Coach: Roy Clifford (13-10)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio

1946-47 Cleveland Rebels Roster
1946-47 Cleveland Rebels Results

The Cleveland Rebels of the Basketball Association of America ended the 1946-47 season with a record of 30 wins and 30 losses, finishing third in the BAA's Western Division. The team compiled a postseason mark of 1-2.

Cleveland scored 4,251 points and conceded 4,308. Ed Sadowski tossed in a team-leading 686 points for the Rebels, while Mel Riebe and Frankie Baumholtz contributed 11 or more per game, too. Kenny Sailors dished out 134 assists for the squad.

Roy Clifford coached the team. The 1946-47 Cleveland Rebels lost in the first round.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Ast	PF	Pts
Ed Sadowski	C	43	682	256			262	174	38	152	686
Mel Riebe	G-F	55	898	276			173	111	67	169	663
Frankie Baumholtz	G	45	856	255			156	121	54	93	631
Kenny Sailors	G	58	741	229			200	119	134	177	577
George Nostrand	C-F	48	520	146			149	74	21	123	366
Bob Faught	F	51	478	141			106	61	33	97	343
Nick Shaback	G	53	385	102			53	38	29	75	242
Leo Mogus	F-C	17	226	73			88	63	28	50	209
Ray Wertis	G	43	195	41			54	33	21	53	115
Dick Schulz	F-G	16	176	43			31	20	17	29	106
Ben Scharnus	F	51	165	33			59	37	19	83	103
Irv Rothenberg	C	29	167	36			54	30	15	62	102
Hank Lefkowitz	F	24	114	22			13	7	4	35	51
Kleggie Hermsen	C-F	11	67	18			15	7	10	32	43
Ned Endress	F-G-C	16	25	3			15	8	4	13	14
Leon Brown	F	5	3	0			0	0	0	2	0
Pete Lalich	F	1	1	0			0	0	0	1	0
Ken Corley	C	3	0	0			0	0	0	0	0
Totals		569	5699	1674	0	0	1428	903	494	1246	4251

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	FG%	FT%	Ast	PF	Pts
Ed Sadowski	C	43	37.5	66.4	0.9	3.5	16.0
Mel Riebe	G-F	55	30.7	64.2	1.2	3.1	12.1
Frankie Baumholtz	G	45	29.8	77.6	1.2	2.1	14.0
Kenny Sailors	G	58	30.9	59.5	2.3	3.1	9.9
George Nostrand	C-F	48	28.1	49.7	0.4	2.6	7.6
Bob Faught	F	51	29.5	57.5	0.6	1.9	6.7
Nick Shaback	G	53	26.5	71.7	0.5	1.4	4.6
Leo Mogus	F-C	17	32.3	71.6	1.6	2.9	12.3
Ray Wertis	G	43	21.0	61.1	0.5	1.2	2.7
Dick Schulz	F-G	16	24.4	64.5	1.1	1.8	6.6
Ben Scharnus	F	51	20.0	62.7	0.4	1.6	2.0
Irv Rothenberg	C	29	21.6	55.6	0.5	2.1	3.5
Hank Lefkowitz	F	24	19.3	53.8	0.2	1.5	2.1
Kleggie Hermsen	C-F	11	26.9	46.7	0.9	2.9	3.9
Ned Endress	F-G-C	16	12.0	53.3	0.3	0.8	0.9
Leon Brown	F	5	0.0		0.0	0.4	0.0
Pete Lalich	F	1	0.0		0.0	1.0	0.0
Ken Corley	C	3			0.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		569	29.4	63.2	0.9	2.2	7.5

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Ast	PF	Pts
Ed Sadowski	C	3	56	22			34	27	5	10	71
George Nostrand	C-F	3	40	14			7	5	3	10	33
Bob Faught	F	3	32	11			3	3	1	10	25
Mel Riebe	G-F	3	37	9			6	3	2	3	21
Ben Scharnus	F	3	21	6			9	5	2	10	17
Ray Wertis	G	3	26	6			5	4	6	6	16
Kenny Sailors	G	2	16	6			4	3	4	8	15
Nick Shaback	G	3	22	6			5	3	0	6	15
Hank Lefkowitz	F	2	18	4			1	1	0	4	9
Totals		25	268	84	0	0	74	54	23	67	222

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	FG%	FT%	Ast	PF	Pts
Ed Sadowski	C	3	39.3	79.4	1.7	3.3	23.7
George Nostrand	C-F	3	35.0	71.4	1.0	3.3	11.0
Bob Faught	F	3	34.4	100.0	0.3	3.3	8.3
Mel Riebe	G-F	3	24.3	50.0	0.7	1.0	7.0
Ben Scharnus	F	3	28.6	55.6	0.7	3.3	5.7
Ray Wertis	G	3	23.1	80.0	2.0	2.0	5.3
Kenny Sailors	G	2	37.5	75.0	2.0	4.0	7.5
Nick Shaback	G	3	27.3	60.0	0.0	2.0	5.0
Hank Lefkowitz	F	2	22.2	100.0	0.0	2.0	4.5
Averages		569	31.3	73.0	0.9	2.7	8.9