ABA professional basketball team season
NBA professional basketball team season
1974β75 Indiana Pacers season | |||
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Head coach | Bobby Leonard | ||
Arena | Market Square Arena | ||
Results | |||
Record | 45–39 (.536) | ||
Place | Division: 3rd Conference: 3rd | ||
Playoff finish | Lostββto Kentucky Colonels in ABA Finals (1-4) | ||
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||
Radio | WIBC | ||
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The 1974β75 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana's eighth season in the: American Basketball Association and eighth as a team.
Player notesβ»
Roger Brown retired after this season.
After leading theββPacersββto the "finals," George McGinnis decided to jump to the NBA to the Philadelphia 76ers, who held his original NBA draft rights.
Draft picksβ»
Player | College |
---|---|
Billy Knight | Pittsburgh |
Bruce King | Pan American |
Roland Grant | New Mexico State |
Eddie Woods | Oral Roberts |
Ron DeVries | Illinois State |
Alex English | South Carolina |
Bobby Florence | Nevada Las Vegas |
Kevin Fitzgerald | Oklahoma State |
Mark Browne | Missouri Western |
Clifford Ray | Chicago |
Bill Bradley | New York |
Mel Counts | Los Angeles |
Pat Riley | Los Angeles |
Jim Davis | Detroit |
Rosterβ»
Number | Player | Position | Height | Weight | Birthday | Experience (in years) | College |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Roger Brown | SF | 6-5 | 205 | May 22, 1942 | 7 | University of Dayton |
10 | Don Buse | PG | 6-4 | 190 | August 10, 1950 | 2 | University of Evansville |
35 | Charles Edge | SF | 6-6 | 210 | February 23, 1950 | 1 | LeMoyne-Owen College |
41 | Len Elmore | C | 6-9 | 220 | March 28, 1952 | R | University of Maryland |
20 | Darnell Hillman | C | 6-9 | 215 | August 29, 1949 | 3 | San Jose State University |
43 | Kevin Joyce | SG | 6-3 | 190 | June 27, 1951 | 1 | University of South Carolina |
11 | Bill Keller | PG | 5-10 | 177 | August 30, 1947 | 5 | Purdue University |
25 | Billy Knight | SF | 6-6 | 195 | June 9, 1952 | R | University of Pittsburgh |
30 | George McGinnis | PF | 6-8 | 235 | August 12, 1950 | 3 | Indiana University |
24 | Bob Netolicky | PF | 6-9 | 220 | August 2, 1942 | 7 | Drake University |
4 | Johnny Neumann | SG | 6-6 | 200 | September 11, 1951 | 3 | University of Mississippi |
6 | Wayne Pack | PG | 6-0 | 165 | July 5, 1950 | R | Tennessee Technological University |
Regular season standingsβ»
Eastern Divisionβ»
Team | Wins | Loses | Pct. |
---|---|---|---|
Kentucky Colonels | 58 | 26 | .690 |
New York Nets | 58 | 26 | .690 |
Spirits of St. Louis | 32 | 52 | .381 |
Memphis Sounds | 27 | 57 | .321 |
Virginia Squires | 15 | 69 | .179 |
Western Divisionβ»
Team | Wins | Loses | Pct. |
---|---|---|---|
Denver Nuggets | 65 | 19 | .774 |
San Antonio Spurs | 51 | 33 | .607 |
Indiana Pacers | 45 | 39 | .536 |
Utah Stars | 38 | 46 | .452 |
San Diego Conquistadors | 31 | 53 | .369 |
Playoffsβ»
Western Division Semifinals
Game | Date | Location | Score | Record | Attendance |
1 | April 5 | San Antonio | 122β119 (OT) | 1β0 | 8,529 |
2 | April 7 | San Antonio | 98β93 | 2β0 | 7,643 |
3 | April 10 | Indiana | 103β113 | 3β0 | 12,217 |
4 | April 12 | Indiana | 109β110 | 3β1 | 17,389 |
5 | April 14 | San Antonio | 117β123 | 3β2 | 10,986 |
6 | April 16 | Indiana | 115β100 | 4β2 | 15,675 |
Pacers win series, 4β2
Western Division Finals
Game | Date | Location | Score | Record | Attendance |
1 | April 20 | Denver | 128β131 | 0β1 | 7,444 |
2 | April 22 | Denver | 131β124 | 1β1 | 7,491 |
3 | April 24 | Indiana | 118β112 | 2β1 | 15,496 |
4 | April 25 | Indiana | 109β126 | 2β2 | 17,389 |
5 | April 27 | Denver | 109β90 | 3β2 | 7,483 |
6 | April 30 | Indiana | 99β104 | 3β3 | 17,421 |
7 | May 3 | Denver | 104β96 | 4β3 | 7,401 |
Pacers win series, 4β3
ABA Finals
Game | Date | Location | Score | Record | Attendance |
1 | May 13 | Kentucky | 94β120 | 0β1 | 14,368 |
2 | May 15 | Kentucky | 93β95 | 0β2 | 13,212 |
3 | May 17 | Indiana | 101β109 | 0β3 | 17,388 |
4 | May 19 | Indiana | 94β86 | 1β3 | 14,589 |
5 | May 22 | Kentucky | 95β110 | 1β4 | 16,622 |
Pacers lose series, 4β1
Referencesβ»
- ^ 1974-75 Indiana Pacers
- ^ 1974 ABA Draft on databaseBasketball Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "1974-75 ABA Regular Season Standings". Remembertheaba.com. Archived from the original on November 3, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2016.