1967–68 Oakland Oaks season

August 2023 Oakland Oaks (ABA) Oakland Oaks ABA 1968 22 56 ABA 6th Bruce Hale Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena KPAT Did not qualify 1 Oakland Oaks The 1967–68 Oakland Oaks season was the first season of the Oakland Oaks franchise in the American Basketball Association (ABA). Originally, Oakland's franchise was supposed to be called the Oakland Americans before the New Jersey Freighters' name change into the New Jersey Americans before the start of the inaugural ABA season saw them initially try to become the Oakland Jacks (in honor of Jack London) before later becoming the Oakland Oaks to partially honor the team of the same name from failed 1960's revival of the American Basketball League, but mostly honor the minor league baseball team of the same name from the Pacific Coast League.http://www.remembertheaba.com/TeamMaterial/VirginiaMaterial/OaksCapsSquiresYearly.html The Oaks played in the first ever game of the ABA on October 13, 1967, beating the Anaheim Amigos 134–129. Rick Barry attempted to defect to the Oaks due to being angered by San Francisco Warriors management's failure to pay him certain incentive awards he felt he was due. However the team sued to stop him from playing, which meant that he would sit out the season rather than play for the Warriors, subsequently doing radio broadcasts for the Oaks. The next season, Barry was allowed to play for the Oaks. The team struggled, finishing dead last in the West by 3 games, with the worst record in the ABA. The Oaks averaged 110.8 points a game (which was 4th best in the league), but gave up an average of 117.4 points, the worst in the league. According to the Elo rating system, the Oaks had the second-worst performance of any professional basketball team ever in a major league, of 1485 such team-seasons, with only the 1946–47 Pittsburgh Ironmen of the Basketball Association of America having a worse year.https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-best-nba-teams-of-all-time-according-to-elo/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150523115308/http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-best-nba-teams-of-all-time-according-to-elo/ dead May 23, 2015 The Best NBA Teams Of All-Time, According To Elo Nate Silver Reuben Fischer-Baum May 22, 2015 Five Thirty Eight July 10, 2016 https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/OAK/1968.html 1967-68 Oakland Oaks Roster and Stats Basketball-Reference.com The Oaks played in various locations besides Oakland: two games in Fresno, California, one game in Fullerton, California, two neutral games each in Memphis, Tennessee and Portland, Oregon, two games in Richmond, California, two games in San Jose, California, and even a game in Sacramento, California.https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/OAK/1968_games.htmlhttps://newspaperarchive.com/eureka-times-standard-dec-18-1967-p-13/ Roster Oakland Oaks 1967–68 #228B22 #FFD700 #FFD700 #228B22 44 Andrew Anderson basketball G 6 2 184 July 6, 1945 Canisius 44 Wes Bialosuknia SG 6 2 185 June 8, 1945 Connecticut 30 Gary Bradds PF 6 8 210 July 26, 1942 Ohio State 55 Mike Dabich C 7 0 242 December 27, 1942 New Mexico State 11 Ron Franz SF 6 7 205 October 20, 1945 Kansas 42, 55 Jim Hadnot C 6 10 235 January 15, 1940 Providence 33 Ira Harge C 6 9 225 March 14, 1941 New Mexico 31 Steve Jones basketball SG 6 5 205 October 17, 1942 Oregon 32 Dave Lee basketball SF 6 7 225 March 31, 1942 San Francisco 12 Barry Leibowitz PG 6 2 180 September 10, 1945 Long Island University 32 Wayne Molis C 6 8 230 April 17, 1943 Lewis University 40 Mel Peterson SF 6 4 185 March 23, 1938 Wheaton College (Illinois) 33 Willie Porter basketball PF 6 7 205 July 3, 1941 Tennessee State 15 Al Salvadori F 6 9 220 May 6, 1945 South Carolina 34 Levern Tart SG 6 2 195 June 1, 1942 Bradley 30 Gene Wiley C 6 10 210 November 12, 1937 Wichita State Bruce Hale https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/OAK/1968.html<noinclude> Final standings Western Division + Team W L PCT. GB New Orleans Buccaneers 48 30 .615 – Dallas Chaparrals 46 32 .590 2 Denver Rockets 45 33 .577 3 Houston Mavericks 29 49 .372 19 Anaheim Amigos 25 53 .321 23 Oakland Oaks 22 56 .282 26 Awards and honors 1968 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 9, 1968) Levern Tart References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070927223307/http://www.remembertheaba.com/Oakland-Oaks.html Oakland Oaks Oakland Oaks Oakland Oaks, 1967-68 Oakland Oaks, 1967-68 Category:1960s in Oakland, California Category:Basketball in Oakland, California Category:Oakland Oaks