Editing Philadelphia Sphas (section)

===Change to Sphas and "Wandering Jews" period===
After losing their sponsorship from the YMHA, Gottlieb, Passon, and Black approached the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association about sponsoring the team. The association agreed to sponsor the men and provided funding for uniforms to the team. The new uniforms featured the acronym SPHA in Hebrew (ספהא) across the front. Again, their sponsorial relationship was short-lived, as the SPHA withdrew their sponsorship shortly after for an unspecified reason.<ref name=":2">Stark, 14.</ref> The men had better financial solvency this time around, as they opened a sporting goods store, calling it P.G.B. Sporting Goods.<ref name=":2" /> With the store, they created new uniforms, but kept the Sphas moniker as a way of paying tribute to their upbringing. Douglas Stark, author of ''The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team'', noted that "[f]or a number of years, the team was known as the Wandering Jews, because the team did not have its own home court."<ref name=":3">Stark, 15.</ref> 

The team continued to play in the American League of Philadelphia after losing their partnership with the SPHA, and played in two different leagues during 1922–23 season: The Manufacturer's League, containing teams from area companies, and the Philadelphia League, which consisted of teams from the greater Philadelphia area, a number of them religious.<ref name=":3" /> In their single season in the Manufacturer's League, the team (known as Philadelphia Passon, Gottlieb, Black since they competed through Passon and Black's sporting goods store) turned in an overall 8–6 record, finishing 3rd in the first half of that season and 6th (out of 8) in the second half.<ref>Stark, Appendix B, 271.</ref> Their first season in the Philadelphia League was a disappointing one, turning in an 8–11 record and finishing 2nd in the first half of the season, but last in the second half at 1–8.<ref>Stark, Appendix B, 272.</ref> The  Sphas' next season in the Philadelphia League would prove more fruitful (due in part to the increased number of games), as the Sphas turned in a 25–15 record, overcoming a first-half slump of 14–13 (5th out of 8) to finish first in the second half of the season with an 11–3 record. They went on that year to defeat the Tri-Council Caseys 2–0 for their first championship.<ref name=":4">Stark, Appendix B, 273</ref>