High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1975-76 American Basketball Association season saw the Utah Stars, a mainstay of the league, fold due to financial pressures sixteen games into the regular season. As a result the Stars were not part of the ABA-NBA merger that occurred at the conclusion of the season. Professional basketball would return to the Salt Lake City area when the New Orleans Jazz of the National Basketball Association relocated there following the 1978-79 season.