1967–68 Anaheim Amigos season

1967–68 Anaheim Amigos season
1967–68 Anaheim Amigos season
Head coach	Al Brightman (12–24); Harry Dinnel (13–29)
Owner(s)	Art Kim; James Ackerman
Arena	Anaheim Convention Center
Results
Record	25–53 (.321)
Place	Division: 5th (ABA)
Playoff finish	Did not qualify
Local media
Television	KTTV 11
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The 1967–68 Anaheim Amigos season was the only season of the franchise in the American Basketball Association (ABA). On February 2, 1967, a charter franchise in Anaheim, California was awarded to Art Kim and James Ackerman for $30,000. They participated in the first ever ABA game, losing 134–129 to the Oakland Oaks. The team ended up losing their first five games of the season, winning their first game 13 days later. The team only played 12 games at home in the calendar year of 1967, while playing on the road (or at a neutral site) for the other 25. The team failed to garner much interest from the locale, along with having to deal with working around the Convention Center's busy schedule due to being across the street from Disneyland.^[2] Three of the home games for the Amigos were played in Honolulu, Hawaii (supposedly to have a sense of Art Kim having a professional basketball team in his home state after failing with his first venture through the Hawaii Chiefs in the short-lived American Basketball League revival, which could be considered to be a precursor to the ABA). The team lost $500,000 over the course of the season.^[3] They led the league in turnovers with 1,516, averaging over 19 a game, with the highest being 36 against the Denver Rockets.^[4]

Head coachAl Brightman (12–24)
Harry Dinnel (13–29)

Owner(s)Art Kim
James Ackerman

ArenaAnaheim Convention Center

Record25–53 (.321)

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After the Amigos lost on December 27, Harry Dinnel took over as coach before they played the next day on the 28th. The team never won more than three games in a row, with their highest winning streak being 2 games, which they did 7 times. From January 7 to January 21, they lost 8 straight games.^[5] After the season, the team moved to Los Angeles to become the Los Angeles Stars. Jim Hardy, the newly hired general manager for the Stars stated that "This is a brand-new franchise. We will have new players, new uniforms, new management, as well as a new home. The Amigos have been buried, and we burned their uniforms after the final game." Despite that notion, however, the Stars would stay in the city of Los Angeles for the next two seasons before the Stars later left the state of California and moved to the nearby state of Utah to become the Utah Stars for the rest of their existence going forward.

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Team	W	L	PCT.	GB
New Orleans Buccaneers	48	30	.615	–
Dallas Chaparrals	46	32	.590	2
Denver Rockets	45	33	.577	3
Houston Mavericks	29	49	.372	19
Anaheim Amigos	25	53	.321	23
Oakland Oaks	22	56	.282	26

1967–68 Game log
#	Date	Opponent	Score	High points	Attendance	Record
1	October 13	@ Oakland	129–134	John Fairchild (30)	4,828^[7]	0–1
2	October 15	@ Denver	105–110	Lester Selvage (26)	2,748^[8]	0–2
3	October 16	@ Dallas	125–129	Stephen Chubin (24)	3,200^[9]	0–3
4	October 18	@ Indiana	103–106	John Fairchild (24)	5,923^[10]	0–4
5	October 24	@ Kentucky	127–128	Stephen Chubin (42)	2,601^[11]	0–5
6	October 26	@ Minnesota	115–99	Stephen Chubin (24)	807^[12]	1–5
7	October 29	Oakland	120–123	Lester Selvage (29)	3,716^[13]	1–6
8	October 31	Oakland	126–123	John Fairchild (26) Lester Selvage (26)	1,013^[14]	2–6
9	November 3	Pittsburgh	101–94	Ben Warley (27)	1,432^[15]	3–6
10	November 4	@ Kentucky	103–104	Ben Warley (29)	5,152^[16]	3–7
11	November 5	@ Minnesota	92–119	Ben Warley (22)	2,230^[17]	3–8
12	November 6	@ Denver	100–121	Stephen Chubin (29)	2,954^[18]	3–9
13	November 8	Houston	104–101	Larry Bunce (24)	1,114^[19]	4–9
14	November 13	@ New Orleans	98–106	Steven Kramer (24)	1,724^[20]	4–10
15	November 14	@ Houston	106–113	Ben Warley (28)	1,089 ^[21]	4–11
16	November 15	@ Dallas	116–105	Lester Selvage (24)	2,710^[22]	5–11
17	November 19	Oakland	100–102	Bob Bedell (21) Lester Selvage (21)	1,095^[23]	5–12
18	November 21	Minnesota	101–110	Ben Warley (24)	1,242^[24]	5–13
19	November 23	@ Oakland Oaks	107–95	Warren Davis (32)	4,787^[25]	6–13
20	November 25	New Orleans^[a]	98–118	Stephen Chubin (24)	1,764^[26]	6–14
21	November 26	@ Dallas	102–114	Bob Bedell (23)	2,032^[27]	6–15
22	November 28	@ New Jersey	110–104	Warren Davis (25)	1,234^[28]	7–15
23	November 29	@ New Jersey	101–106	Stephen Chubin (30)	1,814^[29]	7–16
24	December 2	@ Indiana	117–132	Warren Davis (29)	3,987^[30]	7–17
25	December 3	@ Denver	87–100	Ben Warley (24)	2,914^[31]	7–18
26	December 6	@ Houston	124–100	Ben Warley (30)	1,020^[32]	8–18
27	December 8	@ Dallas	110–123	Warren Davis (33)	3,620^[33]	8–19

1967–68 Anaheim Amigos season

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