[4][5] In this inaugural NBA season only, the ten surviving teams from 1948–49 BAA season played a heavy schedule of games with each other and a light schedule with the seven NBL participants in the merger that created the league, and vice versa.
The Western Division teams were generally weaker on the court; none of the teams there won half of its games played outside the division.
Yet Syracuse won at the same 80% rate against the East and Central (16–4) as they did against the West (35–9).
[6] Note: Prior to the 1969–70 season, league leaders in points and assists were determined by totals rather than averages.
General source: 1949–50 NBA Season Summary basketball-reference.com.