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The 1967–68 ABA season marked the inaugural season of both the American Basketball Association and the Denver Rockets. Initially, the team was meant to play in Kansas City out in Missouri, but was able to relocate themselves to Denver in time for the start of the 1967 ABA draft due to a lack of suitable playing arenas; they then also considered the ideas of Denver Larks and Denver Lark Buntings as team names for the franchise at first before an eleventh hour purchase by Bill Ringsby and his son Don Ringsby that helped save the franchise before they even had a chance to play a single game caused the team to change their team name to the Denver Rockets before the season officially began. This was the first time that professional basketball was officially played in the city of Denver since the original Denver Nuggets left the NBA in 1950 after the season it was created through the merger of the Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League and then since the rebranded Denver Frontier Refiners of the short-lived National Professional Basketball League left Denver in January 1951 to briefly become the Evansville Agogans. The Rockets finished the season with a 45–33 record, which was good enough to qualify for a playoff spot as the third seed out of four playoff teams in the Western Division. However, they would lose to the New Orleans Buccaneers in the first round, with the Buccaneers later reaching the first ABA Finals in league history before losing the championship match-up to the Pittsburgh Pipers. Still, this was their first of three consecutive playoff appearances and first of ten playoff appearances in the franchise's first twelve years of existence.
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