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The 1972–73 Dallas Chaparrals season was the sixth and final season of the Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association, including the one and only season where they tried to represent the entire state of Texas as opposed to the city of Dallas on its own. Throughout the majority of the season, former New Orleans Buccaneers/Memphis Pros head coach Babe McCarthy would coach the Chaparrals before being replaced by Dave Brown for the team's final twelve games of the season in a last-ditch effort to make it to the 1973 ABA Playoffs. However, the Chaps failed to make it to the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, finishing dead last in the Western Division, though they surprisingly missed the final playoff spot of the playoffs in the Western Division side by just two games to the San Diego Conquistadors expansion team. Low attendance, which had been a problem for most of the team's tenure, led to an agreement from the Chaparrals owners to sell the team to a San Antonio group called "Professional Sports, Inc.", which was led by Angelo Drossos, John Schaefer and Red McCombs, in what was considered a "lend-lease" deal by both of the ownership groups. Part of this unique "lend-lease" deal of theirs involved the team being leased to play in San Antonio under a new team name for three years, and if the team was not purchased by the end of the agreement, it would be returned to Dallas going forward, potentially with the Chaparrals name back at hand. However, their first season in San Antonio turned out to be a roaring success for the franchise while under the new Spurs team name, and the new group decided to buy the team outright from the old owners and keep the team in San Antonio for good, which later resulted in them joining the NBA when the two leagues officially merged in 1976 due to their quickly growing fanbase within the city of San Antonio. Dallas would not have another professional basketball team in their city until 1980, when the Dallas Mavericks officially began play as an expansion franchise in the NBA, meaning the NBA would have three separate NBA franchises in the state of Texas with the San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks, and Houston Rockets by the start of the 1980s.
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