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The 1972–73 Memphis Tams season was the first season of the Tams existing and third overall season of American Basketball Association basketball in Memphis, as well as the sixth overall season of play when including the three seasons of play while out in New Orleans as the New Orleans Buccaneers. After Memphis had two seasons as the Memphis Pros with middling profits under multiple different ownership groups in mind, Charles O. Finley bought the team on June 13, 1972. He then proceeded to rebrand the team into the image of his other teams that he had owned at the time, changing the colors of the team to Kelly Green, California Gold, and Polar Bear White. The team's name was picked from an array of 20,000 postcards sent by fans, with the winner being given a $2,500 prize, which turned out to be Tams. The Tams name was meant to be an anagram to stand for the fans that resided in the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, with a tam o'shanter hat being the main logo for the new team. In fact, during their first ever game on October 12, 1972, the entire team came out wearing the vaulted tam o'shanter hats in question. Finley also had a hand in the combinations of uniform colors worn, in part due to every top and trunk there being either green, gold, or white, with one notable combo being yellow tops with white trunks. For all of the flair the team had with their uniforms, however, it did not translate into success either on the court or for their attendance, which also quickly made Finley go dour on his purchase of the franchise. By December, Finley tried to have negotiations to move the team to St. Paul, Minnesota, with Ron Franz being cut from the team before Christmas. The Tams were sixth in points scored at 111.5 per game but were least efficient in points allowed at 118.1 per game. They had two different instances of 10-game losing streaks, with the Tams going around a month between wins at one point, losing 15 straight games from February 25 to March 24. By the time their streak ended, they had already been eliminated from making the playoffs with the New York Nets acquiring the final playoff spot in question in the Eastern Division. By the end of the season, they were the first ABA team to lose 60 games in a season since the Miami Floridians back in 1969.
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