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Minimum monthly payments are required. Subject to credit approval. See terms. Back to home page Return to top. More to explore :. Image not available Photos not available for this variation. Also, the Pros' front office inexplicably failed to exercise a team option on the contract of Jimmy Jones. McCarthy remained as the coach.
This group hustled, rebounded well and played hard as always the case with a McCarthy-coached team. At least at the beginning of the season, the "new" Pros won their fair share of games. On October 20, , the Pros surprised themselves by almost upsetting the Colonels in Louisville.
With 11 seconds remaining in the contest and the Pros trailing Kentucky by three points, Coach McCarthy told three-point bomber Wendell Ladner to try a home run if open, but to pass the ball if closely covered. Ladner proceeded to throw up a foot off-balance fade-away three-pointer in the face of two defenders. He missed badly. After the close loss, McCarthy said of Ladner: "That boy should have paid more attention in school during his math and English lessons. In early November, the Pros went on a rare two-game road winning streak.
On November 12, , they defeated Dallas despite 29 points from former teammate Steve Jones. Charlie Williams scored 29 points to boost the Pros. On December 3, in one of those "home" games at Jackson, Tennessee, the Pros halted the defending champion Stars' ten-game winning streak.
This time Ladner followed McCarthy's instructions and hit an open three-pointer with 22 seconds left in regulation to tie the score at Memphis won the game in overtime During the early part of the season, Govan and Wil Jones averaged over 30 rebounds per game between them Govan got They made the Pros the best rebounding team in the ABA with a Govan, always a reluctant shooter, stated: "I'd like to score more, but I'm convinced that I'll never be a great scorer.
My big thing is to get the ball. But it's something you've got to like to do well. I just try to be best at my job. The Pros never had a dominating center, but Govan and Jones provided plenty of rebounding hustle on both ends of the court.
They made the Pros the best rebounding team in the ABA in Govan averaged Early in the season, their averages were even higher. He went to Utah to play with former teammate Jimmy Jones. Jones, on the other hand, suffered through two more years of Memphis misery with the Charlie Finley-owned Tams. Finally, after the season, Jones signed on with the Kentucky Colonels and won a championship there under coach Hubie Brown. On January 3, , the Pros completed a blockbuster trade with the Carolina Cougars.
Strangely, Coach McCarthy was not consulted about the trade. The trade was the work of new Pros president A. Hart, who had no background in basketball, initiated contacts with the Cougars and negotiated the trade on his own. He apparently pursued the deal after attending a few games and noting that the Pros needed an inside scoring threat. He felt that the 6'11" Denton would get the Pros more points in the paint. Most observers felt that the trade was extremely lopsided in favor of the Cougars.
In public, McCarthy expressed some hurt feelings that he had not been consulted earlier about the deal. In private, he was infuriated and knew that this signalled the end of his involvement with the team. The night after the trade, the Pros hosted the Stars and were blown out Memphis fans put up banners all over the Mid-South Coliseum protesting the trade. The Pros actually played better for a very brief stretch after the trade, prompting McCarthy to make peace with Hart in a sarcastic sort of way :.
But it's been great for us. It's changed us all around. People were starting to catch up with my shuffle. So many of my ex-players are around the league now that they all knew the keys and they were overplaying our strengths all the time.
Randy Denton has really come along in the middle and George Lehmann has given much more leadership than we had before. I was against the trade because I believe in experience and continuity. But these guys are at the same place the other guys were when they left and these fellas should improve. I told A. He's a real go-getter and I'm all for him.
On January 14, , the Pros broke an ABA record by scoring an amazing 52 points in the 4th quarter of a loss against the Pacers in of all places Toronto, Canada. The game was part of an ABA doubleheader designed to gauge Canadian interest in the red, white and blue league the second game featured Kentucky vs. The event attracted 7, curious fans to the Maple Leaf Gardens on a bitterly cold night in Toronto. In mid-February, the Pros' record stood at - last place in the Western Division, but only half a game behind the Denver Rockets for the last playoff spot.
The Pros faced an uphill battle to catch Denver, as 20 out of their final 28 games were on the road. It didn't help when McCarthy and Neumann began to openly feud about the rookie's attitude and playing time. McCarthy pulled Neumann out of a loss at Indiana on February 13, and the two exchanged sharp words.
McCarthy ordered Neumann to sit on the end of the bench, and Neumann responded by yelling "That's fine with me, [censored]. After the game McCarthy questioned Neumann's defense and maturity, while Neumann bluntly stated: "I'll pay the fine but McCarthy treats me like a dog.
I've had to bow and scrape to him so I can play. If I make one mistake I get yanked out of the game. Other guys can make three or four mistakes before they get taken out.
When the Pros played at Utah on February 15, Neumann was not in the starting lineup, but he did score 14 points off the bench in the loss the 6th in a row for the Pros. A week later, in a rematch with the Pacers in Memphis, Neumann went for a career-high 38 points. But the Pros continued their slide by losing their ninth straight game, in double overtime. They squandered a point third quarter lead and a 4 point lead with only 26 seconds to go in regulation.
As Memphis played out the string, Neumann had games of 24, 35 and 40 points to raise is scoring average to It was a humiliating display and put Neumann's lack of defense in a bright spotlight. The blockbuster deal was a three-for-three trade with the Carolina Cougars. Memphis gave up its two top scorers at the time: scrappy and popular Wendell Ladner above right, 33 and fourth-year man Bobby Warren above left, Memphis also parted with 6'10" rookie center Tom Owens.
After playing in only 15 games, Lehmann got hurt and sat out the rest of the year. The Pros were when the trade was made, and the rest of the way. Most of the scoring load after the trade fell on brash rookie guard Johnny Neumann right, In college, Neumann had been compared to Pete Maravich due to his high scoring average.
With the Pros, Neumann occasionally showed flashes of scoring brilliance. But more often than not he bickered with Coach McCarthy and struggled on the court, especially on defense. The Pros went a pitiful over their last 25 games and only after the big January trade supposedly designed to improve the team. They ended the season with a record. They missed the playoffs for the first time in the team's five-year history. By the end of the season, the team's money problems had come to the forefront once again - the league had taken over the operation of the franchise for a second time.
On April 27, , McCarthy resigned his coaching position with the team - ending the longest coaching tenure in the league.
He hooked on with the Dallas as the Chaparrals' new coach. Finally, on June 13, , when it looked like the team would have to move to another city to survive, Charlie Finley bought the franchise and announced he would keep it in Memphis. It was the beginning of the very strange story of the Memphis Tams.
Indiana Pacers Pacers won series, Thanks to John G. Schmitz and Jon Singer for their valuable contributions to this page. Back to Main Page. When he was healthy, Charlie Williams above left, 10 was a quick-driving, unselfish guard who made all of his teammates better. If there was a bright side to the Memphis Pros, it was the play of these two hard-working players, Gerald Govan 25, above left and left and Wil Jones 11, above right and left.
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