Question: What league did the shortest player ever to play in the NBA play for a team in Rhode Island from?
Context: The Staten Island Stapletons also known as the Staten Island Stapes were a professional American football team founded in 1915 that played in the National Football League from 1929 to 1932.  The team was based in the Stapleton section of Staten Island.  They played under the shortened nickname the "Stapes" the final two seasons.  Jack Shapiro, who was a blocking back for the Stapletons, was the shortest player in NFL history.  The team was based in Staten Island, New York. The 2001 NECBL season was the eighth season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.  The league expanded to ten franchises with the addition of a second New Hampshire franchise, the Concord Quarry Dogs of Concord, New Hampshire.  Also, the league's West Warwick, Rhode Island franchise rejoined the league as the Riverpoint Royals.  The league's Cranston, Rhode Island franchise, the Rhode Island Gulls, moved to Newport, Rhode Island and became the Newport Gulls.  The league's Lowell, Massachusetts franchise, the Mill City All-Americans, was renamed the Lowell All-Americans. The Rhode Island Gulls were a team in the United States Basketball League (USBL).  They have many notable former players such as Manute Bol, Spud Webb, John "Hot Rod" Williams, Muggsy Bogues, Robert Rose, and Dick Johnson from Warwick, Rhode Island. Seth Luther ( 1795 – April 29, 1863) was an American antebellum workers' and suffrage organizer based in Providence, Rhode Island.  A carpenter by trade, Luther was renowned in his time for his oratory skills and early work to organize workers into trade unions in the New England area.  He was a key player in Rhode Island's Dorr Rebellion of 1842, where the working people of Rhode Island took up arms in an ill-fated crusade to expand voting to non-property holding men.  Later in life, he was arrested and institutionalized after trying to rob a bank in the name of American President James K. Polk.  He died in the Brattleboro Asylum on April 29, 1863.  In 2001, The Rhode Island Heritage Society inducted Luther into its Hall of Fame in recognition of his pioneering work on behalf of union organizing in Rhode Island. James A. "Jim" Baldwin (May 26, 1886 – August 2, 1964) was an American football player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator.  He served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State College—now the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina—now Duke University, Lehigh University, and Wake Forest University, compiling a career college football record of 41–32–14.  Baldwin was also the head basketball coach at the same five schools, amassing a career college basketball mark of 85–66.  In addition he served as the head baseball coach at Rhode Island State and at Lehigh, tallying a career college baseball record of 32–25–1.  From 1916 to 1920, Baldwin was the athletic director at Rhode Island while he coached three sports. The Rhode Island Rams football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the University of Rhode Island located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.  The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Colonial Athletic Association.  Rhode Island's first football team was fielded in 1895.  The team plays its home games at the 5,180 seat Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island. Roy "Shrimp" Worters (October 19, 1900 November 7, 1957) was a Canadian professional Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Canadiens and New York Americans, and was notable for recording 66 shutouts in his career and being, at 5'3" tall, the shortest player ever to play in the NHL. Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues (born January 9, 1965) is an American retired basketball player.  The shortest player ever to play in the National Basketball Association, the 5 ft Bogues played point guard for four teams during his 14-season career in the NBA.  He is best known for his ten seasons with the Charlotte Hornets, and also played for the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, and Toronto Raptors.  After his NBA career, he served as head coach of the now-defunct WNBA team Charlotte Sting. Melvin M. Hirsch (July 31, 1921 – December 1968) was an American professional basketball player.  He played for the Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America, which would later become the National Basketball Association, for 13 games in the 1946–47 season.  At 5 feet 6 inches tall, he was the shortest player in NBA history until Muggsy Bogues more than 40 years later.  He is the third shortest NBA player of all time, after Bogues and Earl Boykins. The Providence Reds were a hockey team that played in the Canadian-American Hockey League (CAHL) between 1926 and 1936 and the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1936 to 1977, the last season of which they played as the Rhode Island Reds.  The team won the Calder Cup in 1938, 1940, 1949, and 1956.  The Reds played at the Rhode Island Auditorium, located on North Main Street in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1926 through 1972, when the team affiliated with the New York Rangers and moved into the newly built Providence Civic Center.  The team name came from the breed of chicken known as the Rhode Island Red.
Answer: United States Basketball League