1974–75 San Antonio Spurs season

Bob Bass (33–23) John Schaefer Red McCombs (lost to Pacers 2–4) 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. 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.