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The 1971–72 Memphis Pros season was the second and final season of the Pros in the American Basketball Association, as well as the fifth season of the franchise when including the previous seasons they played in New Orleans as the New Orleans Buccaneers. By the halfway point of the season, they were a below-average 17–25. In the second half of the season, they performed at an even worse 9–33, with a 10-game losing streak from February 4 to February 23 being the lowlight of the season. In fact, the team ended the season on a nine-game losing streak, with the Denver Rockets getting easy way to sneak into the 1972 ABA Playoffs for the final Western Division spot. The biggest winning streak they had was 3 games long, which they accomplished three different times throughout the season. The major catalyst for Memphis losing even more games then they already did was an ill-fated trade with the Carolina Cougars on January 3, 1972 that coach Babe McCarthy claimed was "the day they traded my ball club away" with the Pros trading away Wendell Ladner, Bob Warren, and rookie center Tom Owens for George Lehmann, Warren Davis, and rookie center Randy Denton in an attempt to win more games during the season; instead, Lehmann suffered a season-ending injury after only 15 games played for Memphis before sitting out the rest of the season, leading to the Pros playing worse than they previously were beforehand and later leading to coach Babe McCarthy leaving the team after being the oldest tenured ABA coach by this point in time to end up coaching the Dallas Chaparrals for close to an entire season. The Pros were tenth in points scored with 107.5 points per game and sixth in points allowed with 113.0 points per game. On December 11, 1971, the operation of the franchise was taken over by the ABA after the local Memphis Area Sports, Inc. ownership group ran into their own monetary issues themselves. With the team struggling financially, to the point of considering the Memphis squad as the first team to actually fold in the ABA alongside both "The Floridians" and Pittsburgh Condors franchises after the season ended, the team was sold on June 13, 1972, to Charles O. Finley, who owned the MLB's Oakland Athletics and the NHL's California Golden Seals at the time of the sale. Soon after the sale was completed, they were rebranded as the Memphis Tams while still playing in the same arena as the Pros. However, their losing ways in Memphis would continue even with the new change in team names and ownership, with the rebranded Tams being the first ABA team to lose 60 games in a season since the Miami Floridians and later briefly holding the worst record in ABA history not long afterward.