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1975–76 Indiana Pacers season
ABA basketball team season (last in ABA) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 1975–76 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana's ninth season and last in the American Basketball Association (ABA). One noteworthy thing involving the Pacers this season was that they were the team to have been forced to cancel a game against the recently rebranded San Diego Sails franchise after the Sails played in only 11 total games before closing up their franchise on a night where the Pacers were scheduled to play against them in San Diego. Despite later finishing the season with a losing record (which would be their first since the inaugural ABA season), the Pacers would be the fifth and final team to make it to the 1976 ABA Playoffs (being four games ahead of the Spirits of St. Louis despite them having a bunch of star players to their squad), which was the final playoffs ever done in ABA history. Once there, they would lose the quarterfinal round in what would become their final playoff series match against their original ABA rivals (the only other team that would stay put with their team name starting from the initial 1967-68 ABA season, as well as play in every ABA Playoff event, up until this point in time), the Kentucky Colonels 2–1. After that point, the Pacers would ultimately become the final ABA team out of what were considered the four strongest ABA teams in that point in time (the Denver Nuggets, New York Nets, and San Antonio Spurs) to survive the ABA-NBA merger and join the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the following season, with their ABA dynasty they had early on in the league playing a part in them surviving the merger from the ABA to the NBA.
The next time the Pacers would make the playoffs would be in 1981, five years after their original establishment in the NBA, which would also be around the time where they would return to the Eastern Conference after first starting out in the Eastern Division back in the ABA's early days and then playing in the Western Division from 1970 until division play was abolished during the season following the rivaling Utah Stars' departure from the league, and then playing in the NBA's Western Conference from 1976 until 1980. However, they would be the last ABA team to reach the NBA playoffs by that point in time after both the Nuggets and Spurs debuted in the 1977 NBA playoffs following the ABA-NBA merger and the Nets (who would end up moving back to New Jersey following the 1976–77 NBA season, but keep the Nets name after first starting out their ABA tenure as the New Jersey Americans) made their playoff debut in 1979.
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ABA Draft
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Roster
Season standings
Asterisk (*) denotes playoff team
† did not survive the end of the season.
Bold – ABA champions[1]
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Player stats
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
Regular season
Playoffs
Pacers lose series, 1–2[2]
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Awards, records, and honors
- Don Buse led the ABA in minutes played (3380), steals (346), assists (689), minutes per game average (40.2), assists per game (8.2), and steals per game (4.1)
- Bill Keller led ABA in 3-point field goal attempted (349) and made (123).
- Billy Knight was the ABA's second leading scorer (28.1)
ABA All-Stars
References
External links
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