On January 2, 1953, the Baltimore Bullets lost a road game that is recorded as the beginning of a 32-game road losing streak for the franchise. The Bullets — a team that competed in the National Basketball Association during the early 1950s and folded midway through the 1954–55 season — struggled on the road across parts of multiple seasons, and contemporary box scores and later statistical compilations identify a continuous sequence of 32 consecutive away defeats starting with the January 2, 1953 game. Context The Bullets of this era were a small-market team with financial and competitive challenges. The NBA in the early 1950s was smaller, with travel conditions, roster instability, and differing scheduling practices compared with the modern league. These factors contributed to uneven team performances and made long losing stretches more likely for weaker clubs. The streak Available game logs and historical NBA records count the Bullets’ successive road defeats without an intervening road victory across the relevant period as totaling 32 games. That sequence crosses into the remainder of the 1952–53 campaign and continues through subsequent road games until the streak ended. Exact dates and opponents for every game in the run can be found in contemporaneous box scores and season summaries in newspapers and basketball record books; some modern statistical databases also list the streak in franchise and NBA historical notes. Reliability and limits of the record Basketball record-keeping in the early 1950s was not as centralized as it is today. While major newspapers published box scores and league statisticians compiled season summaries, occasional discrepancies in scheduling notation or the classification of games (for example, exhibitions versus regular-season contests) can complicate retrospective counts. The commonly cited figure of 32 consecutive road losses is based on regular-season game logs attributed to the Bullets; researchers citing primary sources such as period newspapers or league archives can verify the sequence game by game. If any source treats certain contests differently, the reported total might vary slightly, so the 32-game figure should be understood as the widely accepted count in standard NBA historical references. Aftermath The Bullets’ broader struggles—financial instability, roster turnover and on-court losses—culminated in the franchise folding early in the 1954–55 season. The 32-game road losing streak stands among the most prolonged such streaks in early NBA history and illustrates the challenges faced by some franchises during the league’s formative decades. While franchises and league structures have changed substantially since then, the Bullets’ streak is preserved in historical records as a notable example of sustained road difficulties in professional basketball’s early years.