1947–48 Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons season

The 1947–48 Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons season was the seventh season of the franchise in the National Basketball League (NBL). It would be the final season that the franchise would play in the NBL with the Zollner name representing team owner Fred Zollner and his company name being included; following the conclusion of this season, they would join the newest NBL champions in the Minneapolis Lakers, their newest NBL rivals in the Rochester Royals (who turned out to only remain as rivals while out in the NBL), and the Indianapolis Kautskys (who ended up rebranding themselves to the Indianapolis Jets immediately upon entry) in order to play in the Basketball Association of America (now known as the National Basketball Association), starting in the 1948–49 BAA season, with the Pistons removing the Zollner part of their team name due to that league not allowing sponsorships being a part of their team names. This was also the last season in Fort Wayne for both Blackie Towery and Jake Pelkington, who had both decided to leave the team prior to the start of the next season out in the BAA.

For the eighth and final year in a row (seventh and final year in a row while representing the NBL), the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons would participate in the annual World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago, which saw the final event ever being held on April 8–11, 1948 and consisted mostly of teams from the National Basketball League alongside the Wilkes-Barre Barons from the American Basketball League (who saw themselves go up against the defending NBL champion Minneapolis Lakers) and two independently ran teams in the New York Renaissance and Bridgeport Newfields, who competed against each other in the first round of the event. For Fort Wayne, their quarterfinal match-up saw them go up against the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, who had since gotten more acclimated to their new home area following their sudden movement from Buffalo, New York to Moline, Illinois representing what was then known as the Tri-Cities area back in Christmas 1946. While the Zollner Pistons had more experience in the tournament, the Blackhawks had greater leadership in tow due to former Fort Wayne player Bobby McDermott being the player-coach of the Tri-Cities squad, as the Blackhawks managed to upset the Zollner Pistons 57–50 in what ultimately became the Zollner Pistons' final game ever played in the WPBT, while the Tri-Cities Blackhawks squad would go to the semifinal round and face off against the New York Renaissance independent team instead.

• Lost first round (50–57) to the Tri-Cities Blackhawks