After a Jamaal Wilkes basket, Kevin Porter missed a pair of free throws and Butch Beard hit a jumper to cut the Bullet lead to four at 92-88. The Golden State Warriors last made the NBA Finals in 1967, when they were still in San Francisco. Recent Game Results Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month This was the first time in NBA Finals history in which the team who did not have home court advantage swept the series. WITH BRAVES: Zaid Abdul-Aziz: Iowa State '68: 1976-77: Mahdi Abdul-Rahman: UCLA '64: 1971-73: Don Adams: Northwestern '70: 1975-77: Nate Archibald Below the main roster you will find in the Fast Facts section: a 1975 Atlanta Braves Opening Day starters list, a 1975 Atlanta Braves salary list, a 1975 Atlanta Braves uniform number breakdown and a 1975 Atlanta Braves primary starters list. It was the team's fourth season under head coach Jack Ramsay. Bullets forward Mike Riordan was assigned to guard Barry, who had killed the Bullets in the series up to that point by averaging 35 points a game. Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a unique set of rosters not easily In the years since, they moved to Oakland, briefly lost Rick Barry to the American Basketball Association, and named Warriors great Al Attles as head coach. The Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors (48–34) played against the Eastern Conference champion Washington Bullets (60–22) for the championship. Midway through the first quarter, Barry went on a drive to the basket and was fouled hard from behind by Riordan. Included, where data is available, is a 1975 Atlanta Braves Opening Day starters list, a 1975 Atlanta Braves salary Riordan played Barry very physically, arousing the ire of Warriors' coach Al Attles. Part of the Baseball Almanac Family. Bullets coach K.C. The team's official home arena was Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.. Copyright 1999- document.write(update); Washington got the ball back with six seconds left but missed two shots and now were down 2–0. The 1975 Atlanta Braves team roster seen on this page includes every player who appeared in a game during the 1975 season. Warriors small forward Rick Barry was named as the series MVP. The Warriors turned the ball over on a 24-second violation with 33 seconds left, but the Bullets gave it back to them after a timeout when Unseld fumbled an inbounds pass into the backcourt. Did you know that a 1975 Atlanta Braves Schedule is available and it includes dates of every game played, scores of every game played, a cumulative record, and many hard to find splits (Monthly Splits, Team vs Team Splits & Score Related Splits)? [3]. The 1974–75 Buffalo Braves season was the fifth season for the expansion Buffalo Braves franchise in the National Basketball Association and its Atlantic Division.It was the team's third season under head coach Jack Ramsay. The 1975 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1974–75 NBA season of the National Basketball Association.The Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors (48–34) played against the Eastern Conference champion Washington Bullets (60–22) for the championship. The Bullets jumped to an early 13-point lead, but Golden State battled back, led by 36 points from Rick Barry, to take a 92–91 lead in the closing seconds. Opting to open the series at home, the Bullets built a 14-point lead at the half over the Warriors at the Capital Centre. Hayes, who had only 15 points, then hit one of two to give the lead back to the Bullets. The team's official home arena was Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. Porter missed a layup, and then Wilkes hit a rebound basket to tie the score. The Washington Bullets would re-appear in the NBA Finals in 1978 and 1979 against the Seattle SuperSonics, with a series win in seven games and a series loss in five games respectively. The Warriors' home games were played at the Cow Palace in Daly City (near San Francisco) due to scheduling conflicts at their normal home court of Oakland Arena during the week of May 19–26. update=copyright.getFullYear(); The underdog Warriors won in four games, sweeping the heavily-favored Bullets to take the title. The first June game to actually be played was Game 4 of the following year's finals. Every player's name links to their career statistics. Rick Barry poured in 38 points and backup center George Johnson had 10 points and nine rebounds off the bench to help the Warriors to a key Game 3 109–101 win. It is a comprehensive team roster and player names are sorted by the fielding position where the most number of games were played during the regular season. They also drafted Jamaal Wilkes, then known as Keith Wilkes, out of UCLA. In three games, Hayes had only 29 points and the Warriors' bench players had outscored the Bullets' reserves 115-53. The Braves made trips to the playoffs in both 1974–75 and 1975–76, the latter of which would be their last playoff berth playing in Buffalo. 1975 Atlanta Braves Roster. Buffalo Braves 1974-75 Roster and Stats. Washington opted for the 1-2-2-1-1 format not out of a sense of fairness, but because they wanted to open the series at home.[1]. The 1975 Atlanta Braves team roster seen on this page … Beard answered with a drive and basket to give the Warriors a 94-93 lead. Barry and Hayes exchanged baskets, keeping the Bullets up by eight at 92-84. Beard then hit one of two, then one of three to give the Warriors their final margin. The Bullets, led by Wes Unseld and Elvin Hayes, and coached by K. C. Jones, won 60 games that season, then overcame the Buffalo Braves and the defending champion Boston Celtics in seven and six games, respectively.