
The Philadelphia Tapers were an American and professional basketball team that played a partial 1962–1963 season, and traces its history to the 1950s AAU New York Tapers.When Abe Saperstein's American Basketball League was born in 1961, Tuck Tape owner Paul Cohen purchased a franchise, gave it the Tapers name, and placed it in Washington. Cohen signed Gene Conley, who had played for the Boston ...