1974–75 Indiana Pacers season

The 1974–75 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana's eighth season both as a team and in the American Basketball Association.^[1] This would also become their last season with a majority of their championship core group of players remaining on their team, as the Pacers would trade Mel Daniels and Roger Brown to the Memphis Sounds before the start of the season, though they would be able to get Brown back onto the team before the end of the season through a trade with the Utah Stars. Due to their earlier trade with the Sounds, the Pacers would record a worse record this season than the previous season, though would still make it to the 1975 ABA Playoffs as a third place team in the Western Division in what turned out to be the final season to have divisions in the ABA. Despite the worst regular season finish, the Pacers would not only beat the San Antonio Spurs, but also the Denver Nuggets to reach the ABA Finals for the fifth time in seven years, though they would ultimately lose the championship round to the nearby-rivaling Kentucky Colonels 4–1.

This marked the last ABA Finals appearance for Indiana in this league. The next Finals appearance for the Pacers would be in the 2000 NBA Finals, 24 years after their establishment in that league. They would later reach the NBA Finals once again a quarter-century after that in 2025, though ultimately lose that series in a heartbreaking manner to the Oklahoma City Thunder 4–3 following a serious injury involving point guard Tyrese Haliburton.