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1974-75 NBA Season Overview

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The 1974–75 NBA season was the 29th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Golden State Warriors winning the NBA Championship, sweeping the Washington Bullets 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals. * The New Orleans Jazz became the league's 18th franchise. * The 1975 NBA All-Star Game was played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona, with the East beating the West 108–102. Walt Frazier of the New York Knicks won the game's MVP award. * The NBA Playoffs were expanded from four teams per conference to five teams, adding another round to the playoffs consisting of a best-of-three series between the Nos. 4 and 5 seeds in each conference, with the winner earning the right to play the No. 1 seed in the conference semifinals. * The Capital Bullets were renamed the Washington Bullets. * The Los Angeles Lakers miss the playoffs for the first time since their 1960 move to Southern California.

The 1974–75 NBA season was the 29th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Golden State Warriors winning the NBA Championship, sweeping the Washington Bullets 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals. * The New Orleans Jazz became the league's 18th franchise. * The 1975 NBA All-Star Game was played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona, with the East beating the West 108–102. Walt Frazier of the New York Knicks won the game's MVP award. * The NBA Playoffs were expanded from four teams per conference to five teams, adding another round to the playoffs consisting of a best-of-three series between the Nos. 4 and 5 seeds in each conference, with the winner earning the right to play the No. 1 seed in the conference semifinals. * The Capital Bullets were renamed the Washington Bullets. * The Los Angeles Lakers miss the playoffs for the first time since their 1960 move to Southern California.

Other basketball leagues in 1975:
ABA

1975 NBA champion Golden State Warriors

1975 Golden State Warriors

1975 NBA Season
Golden State Warriors

18 teams competed during the regular season

Golden State Warriors defeated Washington Bullets for the championship

Commissioner

J. Walter Kennedy

Union Director

Larry Fleisher

Players' President

Paul Silas

1975 NBA Draft

Pick Player Team

1 David Thompson Hawks

2 David Meyers Lakers

3 Marvin Webster Hawks

4 Alvan Adams Suns

5 Darryl Dawkins 76ers

View Entire 1975 NBA Draft

1 Comment

Davan S. Mani says:

April 17, 2020 at 11:36 pm

what a year. the competitiveness of the ABL really brought the NBA out of its duldrums.

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