The Detroit Falcons were a Basketball Association of America (forerunner of the National Basketball Association) team based in Detroit.

[1] Its demise and the Detroit Gems move to Minneapolis,[2] left Detroit without a professional basketball team until a decade later, when the Fort Wayne Pistons moved there.

The Falcons played only in the inaugural season of the BAA and finished 4th in the Western Division with a 20–40 record, 18+1⁄2 games out of first place.

Despite Detroit hosting the inaugural BAA (now NBA) draft, the Falcons would be one of two teams in the BAA to not participate in that inaugural event.

[3] Following the draft's conclusion, the Falcons would officially withdrew from the BAA on July 9, 1947,[4] becoming the second BAA franchise to fold after the Cleveland Rebels did it a month prior on June 9.