The tournament concluded with the New York Nets defeating the Denver Nuggets four games to two in the ABA Finals.
He won that distinction previously in 1974 and became the only player in ABA history to repeat as the MVP of the league playoffs.
The Nuggets and the Nets met in the championship series after posting the two best regular season records in the league.
New York trailed by 22 points late in the third quarter before mounting a run by blitzing full‐court press called "Yellow" by head coach Kevin Loughery.
Denver had three members of its team make the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame: Dan Issel (1993), David Thompson (1996),and Bobby Jones (2019), along with their head coach Larry Brown (2002), while New York saw Julius Erving inducted (1993).