1975–76 Utah Stars season

The 1975–76 Utah Stars season was the sixth and final season of the Utah Stars in the American Basketball Association, as well as the ninth and final season of the franchise when including the few seasons they had under the Anaheim Amigos and Los Angeles Stars team names while out in nearby California. They folded due to financial pressures from the team's ownership sixteen games into the regular season after a failed attempt by team owner Bill Daniels to become the governor of the nearby state of Colorado. The Stars would try and save themselves by merging their club with the also struggling Spirits of St. Louis franchise during the month of November 1975, but talks fell apart with the Spirits saving themselves that season and the Stars folded operations on December 2, 1975, with the ABA abandoning division play entirely for the rest of the season afterward as well. As a result, the Stars alongside the previously folded San Diego Sails and Baltimore Claws were not part of the ABA–NBA merger that occurred by the conclusion of the season in June 1976, which later featured the Virginia Squires as the final folded team to not make it to the merger talks despite that team actually completing their regular season period. Professional basketball would return to the Salt Lake City area three years after the Stars folded when the New Orleans Jazz of the National Basketball Association relocated there following the 1978–79 season to become the Utah Jazz.