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The 1967–68 Pittsburgh Pipers season was the 1st season of the ABA. The Pipers finished first in the Eastern Division and won their first and only ABA title. [1] In the Eastern Division semifinals, the Pipers swept the Indiana Pacers in three games. In the Eastern Division Finals, the Pipers eliminated the Minnesota Muskies, in five games
Pittsburgh Pipers; 1967–68: 54: 24.692: Won Eastern Division Semifinals Won Eastern Division Finals Won ABA Finals: Pittsburgh Pipers 3, Indiana Pacers 0 Pittsburgh Pipers 4, Minnesota Muskies 1 Pittsburgh Pipers 4, New Orleans Buccaneers 3 Minnesota Pipers: 1968–69: 36: 42.462: Lost Division Semifinals: Miami Floridians 4, Minnesota Pipers ...
By April 1967, the league announced that they would begin play for the 1967–68 season with 11 teams in two divisions. The Eastern Division would include teams representing Indianapolis, Indiana , Louisville, Kentucky , New York City, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh , while the Western division would be made up of Anaheim, California , Dallas ...
The ABA was formed in the fall of 1967, and the first ABA Finals were played at the end of the league's first season in the spring of 1968. [1] [2] The league ceased operations in 1976 with the ABA–NBA merger and four teams from the ABA continued play in the National Basketball Association. [3]
Following the playoffs, the Pipers franchise moved back to Pittsburgh. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 27 ] Hawkins' lawyer, Roslyn Litman , and her husband, fellow lawyer S. David Litman, who was the brother of the Rens owner, filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NBA in 1966, arguing that the league and its owners blacklisted Hawkins.
Pittsburgh Pipers 1969–1970 Pittsburgh Pioneers 1970 Pittsburgh Condors 1970–1972 San Diego Conquistadors/ Sails: San Diego Conquistadors 1972–1975 Folded, 1975 NBA operated in San Diego from 1967 to 1971 with the San Diego Rockets (now the Houston Rockets) and from 1978 to 1984 with the San Diego Clippers (now the Los Angeles Clippers).
He joined the rival American Basketball Association in 1967 and played three seasons there as a member of the Pittsburgh/Minnesota Pipers. Vaughn was the fourth leading scorer (19.9 points per game) on the 1967–68 Pipers team which won the 1968 ABA Championship. Vaughn returned to SIU to obtain his college diploma in 1988.
This category is for individual seasons of the American Basketball Association franchise Pittsburgh Condors. It includes seasons when the franchise was known by previous names: Pittsburgh Pipers (1967–1968, 1969–1970) Minnesota Pipers (1968–1969) Pittsburgh Condors (1970–1972)