1975–76 ABA season

1975–76 ABA season
LeagueAmerican Basketball Association
SportBasketball
DurationOctober 24, 1975 – May 13, 1976
Number of games84
Number of teams9
Regular season
Top seedDenver Nuggets
Season MVPJulius Erving (New York)
Top scorerJulius Erving (New York)
Finals
ChampionsNew York Nets
  Runners-upDenver Nuggets
ABA seasons

The 1975–76 ABA season was the ninth and final season of the American Basketball Association. The shot clock was changed from 30 to 24 seconds to match the NBA. Dave DeBusschere was the league's new commissioner, its seventh and last. This was also the only season that did not use the East-West division setup. The NBA would adopt the ABA's three-point shot for the 1979–80 season.

Prior to the start of the season, the Memphis Sounds relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, and briefly became the Baltimore Hustlers,[1] then the Baltimore Claws. The Claws folded during the preseason in October after playing three exhibition games.[2] The San Diego Conquistadors were replaced for the 1975–76 season by the San Diego Sails, but folded in November,[3] followed by the Utah Stars in early December.[4] The Virginia Squires folded in May following the end of the season,[5] unable to make a $75,000 league assessment.

The 1976 ABA All-Star Game saw the first place Denver Nuggets come from behind to defeat the ABA All Stars 144–138 in Denver. The game saw the first ever Slam Dunk Contest, won by Julius Erving.

With the conclusion of the season, the June 1976 ABA-NBA merger saw the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets, and San Antonio Spurs join the NBA, while the Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis accepted deals to fold. The deal accepted by the Spirits' owners, Ozzie and Daniel Silna, would turn out to be quite lucrative, as they agreed to receive a seventh of the television revenue generated by each of the four newly added franchises in perpetuity.

Teams

1975-76 American Basketball Association
Team City Arena Capacity
Baltimore Claws Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Civic Arena 11,686
Denver Nuggets Denver, Colorado McNichols Sports Arena 16,700
Indiana Pacers Indianapolis, Indiana Market Square Arena 17,000
Kentucky Colonels Louisville, Kentucky Freedom Hall 16,664
New York Nets Uniondale, New York Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 14,865
San Antonio Spurs San Antonio, Texas Hemisfair Arena 10,146
San Diego Sails San Diego, California San Diego Sports Arena 14,500
Spirits of St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis Arena 18,006
Utah Stars Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Palace 12,166
Virginia Squires Old Dominion University Fieldhouse
Hampton Coliseum
Richmond Arena 		Norfolk, Virginia
Hampton, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia 		5,200
9,777
6,000

Map of teams

ABA Teams

Final standings

Team W L PCT. GB
Denver Nuggets * 60 24 .714 —
New York Nets * 55 29 .655 5
San Antonio Spurs * 50 34 .595 10
Kentucky Colonels * 46 38 .548 14
Indiana Pacers * 39 45 .464 21
Spirits of St. Louis 35 49 .417 25
Virginia Squires 15 68 .181 44
San Diego Sails 3 8 .273 —
Utah Stars 4 12 .250 —
Baltimore Claws 0 0 .000 —

Asterisk (*) denotes playoff team

Bold – ABA champions

Playoffs

The 1976 ABA Playoffs opened with the Kentucky Colonels defeating the Indiana Pacers 2 games to 1 in the quarterfinals. The Colonels then lost a seven-game semifinal series to the #1 seeded Denver Nuggets, 4 games to 3. The other semifinal saw the New York Nets outlast the San Antonio Spurs 4 games to 3. In the finals the Nets beat the Nuggets, 4 games to 2.

Awards and honors

David Thompson (Denver) and Julius Erving (New York) at the 1976 ABA All-Star Game

References

  1. ^ "It's official - Baltimore gets Sounds of ABA". Lewiston Evening Journal. Maine. Associated Press. August 29, 1975. p. 15.
  2. ^ "ABA crops Claws; asks admission into NBA". Spartanburg Herald. South Carolina. Associated Press. October 21, 1975. p. B3.
  3. ^ "Sails come down, ABA team folds". Lakeland Ledger. Florida. Associated Press. November 12, 1975. p. 1B.
  4. ^ "ABA folds Utah; Roche waived". Spartanburg Herald. South Carolina. Associated Press. December 3, 1975. p. D1.
  5. ^ "ABA Squires fold". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. May 11, 1976. p. 12.

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