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1975–76 NBA season

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Sport
  
Basketball

Eastern champions
  
Boston Celtics

Western champions
  
Phoenix Suns

Start date
  
1975

Number of teams
  
18

TV partner(s)
  
CBS

Eastern runners-up
  
Cleveland Cavaliers

Champion
  
Boston Celtics

Number of games
  
82

League
  
National Basketball Association

Top scorer
  
Bob McAdoo (Buffalo Braves)

Season MVP
  
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Lakers)

Similar
  
1987–88 NBA season, 1992–93 NBA season, 1998–99 NBA season

The 1975–76 NBA season was the 30th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Boston Celtics winning the NBA Championship, beating the Phoenix Suns 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals.

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Notable occurrences

  • Larry O'Brien begins his tenure as the league's third commissioner.
  • The 1976 NBA All-Star Game was played at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, with the East beating the West 123–109. Dave Bing of the Washington Bullets wins the game's MVP award.
  • The Kansas City-Omaha Kings are renamed the Kansas City Kings as they settle into a permanent home in Kansas City, Missouri.
  • The New Orleans Jazz moved into the cavernous Louisiana Superdome after splitting their inaugural season between two inadequate facilities, the Loyola University Fieldhouse and New Orleans Municipal Auditorium.
  • The Houston Rockets play their inaugural season in The Summit (now the Lakewood Church Central Campus).
  • Game 4 of the NBA Finals was first game ever played in the month of June.
  • Arguably the greatest NBA game ever played occurred in Game 5 of the NBA Finals when the Celtics and the Suns went into triple-overtime before the Celtics prevailed 128-126. 17 years later, the Suns would be involved in another triple-overtime Finals game.
  • This was the final season before the NBA-ABA merger.
  • Dick Bavetta begins his Hall of Fame officiating career, replacing the retired Mendy Rudolph, who suffered a blood clot in his lung during a 1975 playoff game and became an analyst for CBS Sports. Bavetta went on to set the record for most games officiated.

    • Notes

  • z, y – division champions
  • x – clinched playoff spot

    • NBA awards

  • Most Valuable Player: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles Lakers
  • Rookie of the Year: Alvan Adams, Phoenix Suns
  • Coach of the Year: Bill Fitch, Cleveland Cavaliers
  • NBA All-Star Game MVP:Dave Bing
  • All-NBA First Team:
  • Rick Barry, Golden State Warriors
  • George McGinnis, Philadelphia 76ers
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles Lakers
  • Nate Archibald, Kansas City Kings
  • Pete Maravich, New Orleans Jazz
  • All-NBA Rookie Team:
  • Joe Meriweather, Houston Rockets
  • Alvan Adams, Phoenix Suns
  • Lionel Hollins, Portland Trail Blazers
  • John Shumate, Phoenix Suns/Buffalo Braves
  • Gus Williams, Golden State Warriors
  • NBA All-Defensive First Team:
  • Paul Silas, Boston Celtics
  • John Havlicek, Boston Celtics
  • Dave Cowens, Boston Celtics
  • Norm Van Lier, Chicago Bulls
  • Slick Watts, Seattle SuperSonics
  • NBA All-Defensive Second Team:
  • Jim Brewer, Cleveland Cavaliers
  • Jamaal Wilkes, Golden State Warriors
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles Lakers
  • Jim Cleamons, Cleveland Cavaliers
  • Phil Smith, Golden State Warriors

    • Note: All information on this page were obtained on the History section on NBA.com

    References

    1975–76 NBA season Wikipedia
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