The 1948–49 BAA season was the Jets' 1st and only season as the Jets in the NBA/BAA, as well as their eighth professional season including their time spent in the NBL (eleventh if you include their seasons in the short-lived NPBL and MBC leagues) and 14th (17th if you include brief cameos in the World Professional Basketball Tournament as the Indianapolis Pure Oils and Indianapolis Oilers) and final season as a franchise after previously going by the Indianapolis Kautskys, named under team owner Frank Kautsky's local grocery store.
[3] After the season ended and they participated in the 1949 BAA draft, the NBL would merge with the BAA to form the NBA.
As a result, the Jets ceased operations and were subsequently replaced by the Indianapolis Olympians.
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