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The '''Brooklyn Visitations''' (also known as the '''Triangles''') were an American [[basketball]] team based in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], that was a member of the [[Metropolitan Basketball League]] and the [[American Basketball League (1925-1955)|American Basketball League]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Valle |first=Cezar Joseph Del |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_WZDDMeW3cC |title=The Brooklyn Theatre Index Volume II Manhattan Avenue to York Street |date=October 2010 |publisher=Cezar Del Valle |isbn=978-0-9827724-1-6 |language=en}}</ref> The Visitations' home court was [[Prospect Hall (Brooklyn, New York)|Prospect Hall]], where fans were made to check their guns at the door.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levine |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjOYf1YAhaoC |title=Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience |date=1993-09-09 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-535900-8 |pages=66 |language=en}}</ref>

After the 1935/36 season the team became the [[Paterson Visitations]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Visitations Quintet Shifted |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/10/30/archives/visitation-quintet-shifted.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.6YZT.PVWT6nVN2PtN&smid=url-share |access-date=22 March 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=30 October 1936}}</ref> Then, during the 1st half of the 1936/37 season, the team moved back to Brooklyn on November 21, 1936, and became the Brooklyn Visitations again.

==Year-by-year==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!League
!Reg. Season
!Playoffs
|-
|1921/22
|MBL
|4th
|''No playoff''
|-
|1922/23
|MBL
|3rd (1st half); 5th (2nd half)
|''Did not qualify''
|-
|1923/24
|MBL
|bgcolor="B3B7FF"|1st (1st half); 1st (2nd half)
|bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion (no playoff)
|-
|1924/25
|MBL
|2nd (1st half); 1st (2nd half)
|bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion
|-
|1925/26
|MBL
|5th (1st half); 2nd (2nd half)
|''Did not qualify''
|-
|1926/27
|MBL
|1st (1st half); 2nd (2nd half)
|bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion
|-
|1927/28
|MBL
|3rd
|''No playoff''
|-
|1928/29
|ABL
|3rd (1st half); 2nd (2nd half)
|''Did not qualify''
|-
|1929/30
|ABL
|2nd (1st half); 4th (2nd half)
|''Did not qualify''
|-
|1930/31
|ABL
|1st (1st half); 3rd (2nd half)
|bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gould |first=Todd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYHmvgAurOwC |title=Pioneers of the Hardwood: Indiana and the Birth of Professional Basketball |date=1998-03-22 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-21199-6 |pages=46 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|1932
|MBL
|bgcolor="B3B7FF"|1st(t)
|bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion
|-
|1932/33
|MBL
|3rd (1st half); 3rd (2nd half)
|''Did not qualify''
|-
|1933/34
|ABL
|4th (1st half); 8th (2nd half)
|''Did not qualify''
|-
|1934/35
|ABL
|3rd (1st half); 1st(t) (2nd half)
|bgcolor="FFEBAD"|Champion
|-
|1935/36
|ABL
|3rd (1st half); 1st (2nd half)
|Finals
|-
|1936/37
|ABL
|5th (1st half); 3rd (2nd half)
|''Did not qualify''
|-
|1937/38
|ABL
|3rd (1st half); 6th (2nd half)
|''Did not qualify''
|-
|1938/39
|ABL
|7th
|''Did not qualify''
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}{{Brooklyn Visitations 1930–31 ABL champions}}
{{Brooklyn Visitations 1931–32 MBL champions}}
{{Brooklyn Visitations 1934–35 ABL champions}}

[[Category:Basketball teams in New York City]]
[[Category:Sports in Brooklyn]]

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