1969–70 New Orleans Buccaneers season

The 1969–70 New Orleans Buccaneers season was the 3rd and final season of the Buccaneers in the ABA. The team was 22–12 by the beginning of 1970 in part due to two 6 game winning streaks. But an eight-game losing streak (from February 22-March 8) plummeted the team from 31–24 to 31–32, and the team remained around .500 from there on, winning their last two games of the season to finish at exactly .500. The Bucs were 10th in points scored, with 107.9 points per game, and 2nd in points allowed at 107.1 points per game. However, the team finished one game out of the final playoff spot to the Los Angeles Stars. The team did not have as much success with attendance, and plans were made to play home games throughout the state (even to the point of renaming themselves as the Louisiana Buccaneers similar to other regional franchises like the Carolina Cougars, Virginia Squires, Texas Chaparrals, and "The Floridians" franchises that had attempted to rebrand themselves as regional franchises in the previous two seasons with mixed short-term results), such as Shreveport, Lafayette, Monroe and Baton Rouge. However, on August 21, 1970, P. L. Blake bought the team and subsequently moved it to Memphis, Tennessee ten days later to become the Memphis Pros. New Orleans would not have a pro basketball team until 1974 with the Jazz, with their current franchise there being the New Orleans Pelicans following the Jazz moving to Utah in 1979 and a franchise called the Charlotte Hornets moved to New Orleans in 2002, later becoming the Pelicans in 2013 and then its own franchise a year after that (though also keeping the history of the New Orleans Hornets name as a part of the Pelicans' own history, including the couple of years where they went by the temporary moniker of the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets while temporary being stationed at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma due to Hurricane Katrina).

1969–70 New Orleans Buccaneers season
Head coach	Babe McCarthy
Arena	Tulane Gym Municipal Auditorium
Results
Record	42–42 (.500)
Place	Division: 5th
Local media
Television	WDSU 6
< 1968–69 1970–71 >

Roster

1969–70 New Orleans Buccaneers roster

Players

Coaches

Pos. No. Player Height Weight DOB From PF 14 Tommie Bowens 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 220 lb (100 kg) July 7, 1940 Grambling State SG 10 Mike Butler 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 170 lb (77 kg) October 22, 1946 Memphis PF 34 Lee Davis 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 235 lb (107 kg) October 11, 1945 North Carolina Central SF 11 Ron Franz 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 205 lb (93 kg) October 20, 1945 Kansas C 25 Gerald Govan 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 220 lb (100 kg) January 2, 1942 Saint Mary of the Plains College PG 15 Jimmy Jones 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 188 lb (85 kg) January 1, 1945 Grambling State SG 23 Steve Jones 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 205 lb (93 kg) October 17, 1942 Oregon PF 32 Jackie Moreland 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 215 lb (98 kg) March 11, 1938 Louisiana Tech SG 12 Ron Perry 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 190 lb (86 kg) December 29, 1943 Virginia Tech C 21 Red Robbins 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 190 lb (86 kg) September 30, 1944 Tennessee F 22 Jerry Rook 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 219 lb (99 kg) October 27, 1943 Arkansas State SG 24 Skeeter Swift 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 204 lb (93 kg) June 19, 1946 East Tennessee State SF 31 Jasper Wilson 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 200 lb (91 kg) July 12, 1947 Southern

Head coach Babe McCarthy Legend (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (S) Suspended Injured Roster

Final standings

Western Division

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Denver Rockets *	51	33	.607	—
Dallas Chaparrals *	45	39	.536	6.0
Washington Caps *	44	40	.524	7.0
Los Angeles Stars *	43	41	.512	8.0
New Orleans Buccaneers	42	42	.500	9.0

Awards, records, and honors

1968 ABA All-Star Game played on January 24, 1970

• Jimmy Jones
• Steve Jones
• Gerald Govan
• Red Robbins (injured, did not play)