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The 1951–52 Washington Capitols season was the sixth and final season played by the Washington Capitols in their only season in the original American Basketball League, which was in its 25th season of existence when combining the six seasons of its original run with the nineteen seasons in its more recent run at this point in time after their hiatus in relation to the Great Depression. After the original Washington Capitols NBA franchise folded operations on January 9, 1951, thus failing to complete what would be their final season in the NBA properly, the team would end up deciding to reactive itself for the following season in the smaller American Basketball League, which had six other teams to compete alongside them by this point in time. At first, the Washington Capitols under head coach Chick Reiser and some former NBL and/or BAA/NBA players on their team looked to have a promising comeback in the smaller looking ABL by starting their season out with a 10–3 record, seeing themselves be at second place in the league behind probably only the two-time defending ABL champion Scranton Miners at the time. However, after a certain point in their only season in the ABL, the Washington Capitols were not only facing financial struggles despite playing in the smaller ABL, but also facing legal consequences by the NBA due to them threatening to sue both the team and the ABL itself for looking to take away that Washington Capitols franchise's team history away from the NBA since they had the original copyright license for the team name in question despite the Washington Capitols name previously existing as a team in the ABL. Either way, on January 11, 1952, over two days after their one-year anniversary of when the original Washington Capitols NBA franchise dropped out of the 1950–51 NBA season, this version of the Washington Capitols would drop out of the ABL for the rest of its 1951–52 season as well, though this team that dropped out did so with a much better 15–7 record that had them at second place in the ABL at the time it was made official. Had this team continued to play out the rest of their season properly, there would be a chance that they could have won the 1951–52 ABL championship instead of the eventual ABL champion Wilkes-Barre Barons after previously dropping out of the NBA a season earlier. Either way, this marked the only time a former NBA team would technically defect from the NBA without creating their own league to go up against it and instead had them compete in a different professional basketball league of sorts in the process.
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