1954–55 Milwaukee Hawks season

The 1954–55 Milwaukee Hawks season was the Hawks' ninth season of existence, their sixth season in the NBA, and the fourth and final season in Milwaukee. During the early part of the season, the Hawks were the only team that played one game against the original Baltimore Bullets to end up losing to that same squad in question, losing that match 99–92 in Milwaukee for what turned out to be the original Bullets' final victory ever done in franchise history on November 20, 1954 (as well as the only NBA game that new Bullets head coach Albert Barthelme would get a win as an NBA head coach in general); that same Bullets franchise would later fold operations a week later on November 27. Thankfully for the Hawks, that loss would end up being wiped out from the official record books for the NBA's history. However, if their loss was officially kept as a part of the season's record for the Hawks, their official record would have had Milwaukee hold an even worse losing record of 26–47 instead of 26–46 as the official worst record of the season. This season was also notable for the Hawks originally having the lowest-scoring effort in one game in the NBA season that debuted the shot clock, with Milwaukee scoring only 57 points in a neutral sited match held in Providence, Rhode Island on February 27, 1955, which resulted in a surprisingly close 62–57 defeat to the Boston Celtics near the end of their season. In the NBA's post-shot clock era, that game by the Hawks would remain the lowest-scoring effort from one team that would be willingly recognized by the league (primarily because of the shot clock's implementation) in over 40 years before it later was tied twice in 1996 by the Philadelphia 76ers (the current rendition of this season's championship winning Syracuse Nationals) and the Orlando Magic before later being broken by the Utah Jazz twice (once in the 1998 NBA Finals and once in the 1999 lockout-shortened regular season period) and then by the Chicago Bulls near the end of that lockout-shortened 1999 season, with Chicago's 49 points in 1999 being the current-day record of infamy to this day. After this season's conclusion, the Hawks would move again, this time to St. Louis, Missouri for the following season. The Hawks would bring a return to NBA basketball in St. Louis after the St. Louis Bombers folded in 1950, staying in St. Louis until 1968.

There would not be another NBA franchise in Milwaukee until the Bucks began play themselves in 1968, coincidentally enough.