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The 1976–77 NBA season was the 31st season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Portland Trail Blazers winning their first NBA Championship in franchise history, beating the Philadelphia 76ers in six games in the NBA Finals .
Each would go on to coach more than 2,000 games in the NBA. This was the final season before the NBA-ABA merger. In the 1976 offseason, four ABA teams joined the NBA: the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, and the reigning ABA champion New York Nets, who relocated to New Jersey.
The Phoenix Suns entered the NBA as an expansion team in the 1968–69 season. Prior to 1976, they only made the playoffs once, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the 1970 NBA Playoffs. Before that, the Suns lost a coin flip to the Milwaukee Bucks prior to the 1969 NBA draft, losing out on selecting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Cities that hosted NBA and ABA teams at the time of the merger in 1976. Pre-existing NBA cities are marked in black. ABA franchises that were accepted into the NBA are marked in red. New York, marked in blue, hosted both leagues. The remaining ABA teams, marked in orange, folded either during merger talks or before talks began in Virginia's case.
The National Basketball Association has undergone several rounds of expansion in the league's history, since it began play in 1946, to reach 30 teams. The most recent examples are the additions of the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat in 1988; the Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic in 1989; the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies in 1995 (who relocated to Memphis in 2001); and the ...
[4] [1] [5] In 1976, the NBA and the American Basketball Association (ABA) merged, adding four franchises to the NBA. The NBA's regular season runs from October to April, with each team playing 82 games. The league's playoff tournament extends into June, culminating with the NBA Finals championship series.
The American Basketball Association joined the NBA with the ABA–NBA merger in 1976. Of the teams remaining in the ABA, four joined the NBA. The two teams, the Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis, which folded had their players assigned to a dispersal draft for draft purposes.
1976–77 NBA teams Eastern Western; Atlantic: Central: Midwest: Pacific: Boston Celtics: Atlanta Hawks: Chicago Bulls: Golden State Warriors: Buffalo Braves: Cleveland Cavaliers: Denver Nuggets^ Los Angeles Lakers: New York Knicks: Houston Rockets: Detroit Pistons: Phoenix Suns: New York Nets^ New Orleans Jazz: Indiana Pacers^ Portland Trail ...