The Original Celtics were a barnstorming professional American basketball team whose overall franchise history is considered to be very complex due to them operating throughout their overall existence under different owners, locales, team names, and even teams in general at certain points in time. During their various points in existence, the team played professional basketball games out in the Eastern Basketball League, the Metropolitan Basketball League, the 1926 rendition of the National Basketball League, and the (original) American Basketball League, with their time in the ABL being their most notable time in terms of professional basketball operations. The team has no relation to the NBA's Boston Celtics outside of them being an indirect inspiration for that successful franchise. The Original Celtics franchise as a whole was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959.