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The 1972–73 Virginia Squires season was the third season of the Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association and their sixth in existence when including the past three seasons they had as the Oakland Oaks and Washington Caps. The Squires actually had one of their early season victories due to forfeiture on October 26, when the Denver Rockets forfeited to them due to their head coach, Alex Hannum, having his Rockets players foul the Squires' players under the presence of a "pressure defense experiment"; that experimental pressure defensive plan in question that they played throughout the second half of the game led to Denver committing 56 fouls, which led to seven of the Rockets' players fouling out of the game entirely, as well as subsequently led to the Squires shooting 56 free-throws throughout the entire fourth quarter of that game. Even if the game wasn't considered forfeited by Denver, however, Virginia would have still won that match with a 155–111 blowout score with Julius Erving scoring a game-high 22 points and the Squires scoring an unofficial record-high 53 points in the fourth quarter thanks to all of those free-throws they were allowed to get by Denver's fouls, which led to Virginia making an unofficial record-high 74/92 free-throws scored that night. The Squires had a 21–21 first half period with a five-game winning streak included in that half. In the second half, they finished the season the same way, though they did lose five straight games near the end of the season instead. They finished 4th in points scored at 114.1 per game and 8th in points allowed at a higher 114.4 per game. This was also the debut season of future Hall of Famer George Gervin, who the Squires actually drafted in January 1973's Special Circumstances Draft, but was allowed to play for Virginia early in this time period due to him actually playing semi-professional basketball early on with the Pontiac Chaparrals in the original, short-lived Continental Basketball Association. In the Division Semifinals, the Squires lost the division semifinals in five games to their stateside divisional rivals, the Kentucky Colonels. The second half of the season would be the only period of time where Julius Erving and George Gervin would play together as teammates, as financial troubles from the team's owner, Earl Foreman, would cause the Squires to trade Erving to the New York Nets before the upcoming season began, as well as later trade Gervin away during that same season by the 1974 ABA All-Star Game period that was held in Norfolk, Virginia, which ended up becoming the last straw for many Squires fans' tolerance on their team operations in general once that Gervin trade officially happened.