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The 1967–68 Oakland Oaks season was the first season of the Oakland Oaks franchise in the American Basketball Association (ABA). Originally, Oakland's franchise was supposed to be called the Oakland Americans before the New Jersey Freighters' name change into the New Jersey Americans before the start of the inaugural ABA season saw them initially try to become the Oakland Jacks before later becoming the Oakland Oaks to partially honor the team of the same name from failed 1960's revival of the American Basketball League, but mostly honor the minor league baseball team of the same name from the Pacific Coast League. The Oaks played in the first ever game of the ABA on October 13, 1967, beating the Anaheim Amigos 134–129. Rick Barry attempted to defect to the Oaks due to being angered by San Francisco Warriors management's failure to pay him certain incentive awards he felt he was due. However the team sued to stop him from playing, which meant that he would sit out the season rather than play for the Warriors, subsequently doing radio broadcasts for the Oaks. The next season, Barry was allowed to play for the Oaks. The team struggled, finishing dead last in the West by 3 games, with the worst record in the ABA. The Oaks averaged 110.8 points a game, but gave up an average of 117.4 points, the worst in the league. According to the Elo rating system, the Oaks had the second-worst performance of any professional basketball team ever in a major league, of 1485 such team-seasons, with only the 1946–47 Pittsburgh Ironmen of the Basketball Association of America having a worse year. The Oaks played in various locations besides Oakland: two games in Fresno, California, one game in Fullerton, California, two neutral games each in Memphis, Tennessee and Portland, Oregon, two games in Richmond, California, two games in San Jose, California, and even a game in Sacramento, California.
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