1971–72 Dallas Chaparrals season

The 1971–72 Dallas Chaparrals season was the fifth season of the Chaparrals franchise in the American Basketball Association. This season saw them return to their original name of the Dallas Chaparrals that they had for their first three seasons of existence to just represent the city of Dallas after they had originally played their previous season under the short-lived Texas Chaparrals name in what turned out to be a failed experiment for the Chaparrals franchise to exist as a regional franchise for the entire state of Texas (trying to work similarly to the Carolina Cougars, Virginia Squires, and "The Floridians" franchises for the states of North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida, respectively). For their third straight season in a row, the Chaps lost to the Utah Stars in the Western Division Semifinals, being swept by the Stars once again after previously being swept by Utah while representing the entire state of Texas instead of just the city of Dallas. This later turned out to be the final playoff appearance for the team for their time out in Dallas, as one season after that happened (which also became the only season they would miss the ABA Playoffs altogether while playing in the ABA), the Chaparrals would move to San Antonio to become the San Antonio Spurs in the 1973–74 ABA season and continue to exist under that name to this day.

ABA Draft

This draft was the first ABA draft to have a properly recorded historical note of every round in their draft available. Round Pick Player Position(s) Nationality College 1 9 Stan Love PF United States Oregon 2 11 Sidney Wicks PF United States UCLA 2 20 Roger Brown C United States Kansas 3 28 Walt Szczerbiak SF United States West Germany George Washington 4 33 Gene Phillips SG United States Southern Methodist 5 44 Collis Jones SF/PF United States Notre Dame 6 55 George Trapp PF/C United States Cal State Long Beach College 7 66 Sterling Quant PF The Bahamas Central State 8 77 Curtis Rowe PF United States UCLA 9 88 Jimmie Guymon G United States Eastern New Mexico 10 99 Gene Knoll G United States Texas Tech 11 110 Al Shumate SF United States North Texas State University 12 120 Willie Hart C United States Grambling College 13 130 Goo Kennedy PF United States Texas Christian University 14 139 Bill Brickhouse G United States Montana State 15 148 William Chatmon F United States Baylor 16 157 Harry Taylor SG/SF United States Los Angeles Baptist 17 165 Dan McGhee PF/C United States Howard Payne College This draft would become the only ABA draft the Chaparrals would officially participate in as the Texas Chaparrals instead of their usual Dallas Chaparrals name. This draft would have also had them hold the #1 pick in that year's draft (which became ABA All-Star power forward/center Jim McDaniels from Western Kentucky University) due to them having the worst record by the time the draft first began (which officially started on January 22 and then concluded properly on March 15, 1971) had they not swapped around first round draft picks alongside various other players with the team that eventually won the 1971 ABA Finals Championship by the end of the season, the Utah Stars. The Chaparrals would also gain a second round pick from the Utah Stars through a different trade they did during the season.

Roster

Final standings Western Division + Team W L % GB Utah Stars 60 24 .714 - Indiana Pacers 47 37 .560 13 Dallas Chaparrals 42 42 .500 18 Denver Rockets 34 50 .405 26 Memphis Pros 26 58 .310 34

ABA Playoffs

Awards and honors 1972 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 29, 1972) Donnie Freeman Steve Jones

References

Chaparrals on Basketball Reference

External links RememberTheABA.com 1971-72 regular season and playoff results RememberTheABA.com Dallas Chaparrals page

1971–72 Dallas Chaparrals season

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