1974–75 San Antonio Spurs season

March 2026 August 2023 San Antonio Spurs ABA 1975 51 33 Western 2 2 Tom Nissalke (18–10)Bob Bass (33–23) John Begzos HemisFair Arena Angelo DrossosJohn SchaeferRed McCombs West Division semifinals(lost to Pacers 2–4) SAS WOAI 4 KKYX The 1974–75 San Antonio Spurs season was the second season for the San Antonio Spurs and eighth season overall when including their seasons under the Dallas Chaparrals name, including the one failed season where they attempted to rebrand themselves as the Texas Chaparrals to become a regional franchise to represent the state of Texas by playing in Lubbock and Fort Worth alongside their original home in Dallas, Texas. The Spurs made their regular season debut on October 18, 1974 by winning a 129–121 double-overtime thriller against the Indiana Pacers in Indiana.http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nba/sanantonio/spurs.html San Antonio Spurs (1973–Present) January 29, 2013 July 4, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140704042750/http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nba/sanantonio/spurs.html dead After that, the Spurs would win the next two games, getting off to a rather quick start on their ends. However, despite the Spurs going onto an 18–10 start into the season, the Spurs would fire head coach Tom Nissalke due to fans not liking the coaching style that he had for the team and replace him with Bob Bass for the rest of the season. By the end of December they would be 21–18, after finishing 7–10 in the month (with a five gaming losing streak occurring at one point with their new coach), but Bass and the Spurs would quickly recover from the poor finish for 1974 as they would enter 1975 by winning 30 of their last 45 games of the season (with the Spurs even getting a seven game winning streak at one point), which led to them finishing with over 50 victories for the first time in franchise history, either as the Spurs or as the original Chaparrals team name. However, they would only get a second place finish in the Western Division since they finished behind the Denver Nuggets there by 14 games (in what would later become the second-best record put out in ABA history behind only the 1971–72 Kentucky Colonels). In the 1975 ABA Playoffs, the Spurs once again lost in the first round to the Indiana Pacers, this time losing to them 4–2 despite the Spurs appearing to be the better team this time around due to the Pacers trading 7x All-Star Mel Daniels to the Memphis Sounds; Indiana would later reach the 1975 ABA Finals themselves, though they would lose to the Kentucky Colonels there. ABA Draft 1974 ABA draft Round Pick Player Position(s) Nationality College 2 15 Truck Robinson PF USA United States Tennessee State 3 29 Collis Temple SF USA United States LSU 4 35 Fred Saunders SF/PF USA United States Syracuse 4 36 Kim Hughes C USA United States Wisconsin 5 45 Gene Short SF USA United States Jackson State 6 55 Gary Anderson G USA United States Wisconsin 7 65 Gerald Cunningham F USA United States Kentucky State 8 75 Hercle Ivy G USA United States Iowa State 9 85 Walter Luckett SG USA United States Ohio University 10 95 Charles McKinney C USA United States Baylor 10 100 Mike Ogan C USA United States Carson–Newman This draft table does not include the "ABA Draft of NBA Players" that was done immediately afterward.http://www.databasebasketball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1974&lg=A 1974 ABA Draft on databaseBasketball.com 2014-05-25 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20140714121456/http://databasebasketball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1974&lg=A 2014-07-14 ABA Draft of NBA Players Round Pick Player Position(s) Nationality College NBA Team 1 5 Tom Boerwinkle C USA United States Tennessee Chicago Bulls 2 15 Clyde Lee PF/C USA United States Vanderbilt Golden State Warriors 3 25 Neal Walk C USA United States Florida Phoenix Suns 4 35 Steve Kuberski PF/C USA United States Bradley Boston Celtics 5 45 Lloyd Neal PF/C USA United States Tennessee State Portland Trail Blazers The "ABA Draft of NBA Players" that was done on April 17, 1974 happened immediately after the actual ABA Draft done for this season was concluded on that day. None of the five players drafted by the Spurs would report to the team this season. Interestingly, the Spurs would join the Kentucky Colonels as the only two ABA teams that year to not draft any NBA players that would later go on to become members of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Roster San Antonio Spurs 1974–75 #000000 #CDD6DB #CDD6DB #000000 25 Coby Dietrick PF 6 10 San Jose State 220 July 23, 1948 23 Will Franklin basketball SF 6 7 Purdue 220 October 19, 1949 20 Donnie Freeman basketball, born 1944 SG 6 3 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 185 July 18, 1944 44 George Gervin SF 6 7 Eastern Michigan 180 April 27, 1952 33 Rich Jones basketball PF 6 6 Memphis 220 December 27, 1946 22 George Karl PG 6 2 University of North Carolina 190 May 12, 1951 34 Stan Love basketball PF 6 9 Oregon 215 April 9, 1949 31 Swen Nater C 6 11 UCLA 240 January 14, 1950 13 James Silas PG 6 1 Stephen F. Austin State 180 February 11, 1949 40 Collis Temple SF 6 5 LSU 220 November 8, 1952 30 Chuck Terry SF 6 8 California State University, Long Beach 215 September 27, 1950 21 Bob Warren basketball SG 6 5 Vanderbilt 190 July 17, 1946 Tom Nissalke / Bob Bass Regular season ABA Schedule Game Date Opponent Result Spurs Opponents Record 1 2 1974–75 San Antonio Games – Basketball-Reference.com Season standings + 1974–75 ABA Western Standings Western Division W L PCT. GB Denver Nuggets 65 19 .774 – San Antonio Spurs 51 33 .607 14 Indiana Pacers 45 39 .536 20 Utah Stars 38 46 .452 27 San Diego Conquistadors 31 53 .469 34https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/ABA_1974.html 1973-74 ABA Season Summary ABA Playoffs ABA Western Division Semifinalshttp://www.remembertheaba.com/PlayoffPages/1975Playoffs.html 1974–75 ABA Regular Season Standings Remembertheaba.com 2016-07-03 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20091103015405/http://www.remembertheaba.com/PlayoffPages/1975Playoffs.html 2009-11-03 Game Date Location Score Record Attendance 1 April 5 San Antonio 119–122 (OT) 0–1 8,529 2 April 7 San Antonio 93–98 0–2 7,643 3 April 10 Indiana 103–113 0–3 12,217 4 April 12 Indiana 110–109 1–3 17,389 5 April 14 San Antonio 123–117 2–3 10,986 6 April 16 Indiana 100–115 2–4 15,675 Spurs lose series, 4–2 References 35em External links RememberTheABA.com 1974–75 regular season and playoff results RememberTheABA.com San Antonio Spurs page RememberTheABA.com 1974–75 game by game results Spurs on Basketball Reference Category:San Antonio Spurs seasons San Antonio San Antonio San Antonio