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The 1971–72 Virginia Squires season was the second season of the Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association, as well as the fifth season of the franchise after previously playing as the Oakland Oaks and Washington Caps. This was the debut season of future Hall of Famer and ABA All-Time MVP Julius Erving, who the team acquired over the New York Nets some time after the 1971 ABA draft ended. During the first half of the season, the Squires were 26–16, with a season-high five-game losing streak and a five-game winning streak mixed together in that half. However, in the second half of the season, they went 19–23, with some of those losses relating to them suddenly losing their key co-star, Charlie Scott for the rest of the season through him playing with the rivaling NBA. Just before the season ended, Charlie Scott left the team and joined the NBA's Phoenix Suns due to them completing a trade with the Boston Celtics for Paul Silas. The Squires finished the season as a team that was second in points scored at 118.9 per game, but ninth in points allowed at 118.0 per game. Scott set the all-time ABA individual single-season scoring record by averaging 34.6 points per game. Despite them being without Charlie Scott as a key co-star to Julius Erving to end the season, in the 1972 ABA Playoffs, the Squires swept "The Floridians" franchise in what turned out to be that franchise's final games ever played, but the Squires lost to the New York Nets in the Eastern Division Finals in seven games. After this season ended, the Squires stopped playing in Roanoke, electing to focus on the cities of Norfolk, Hampton, and Richmond only.
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