– || .765 || 13.8 || 2.2 || – || – || 15.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1974 | style="text-align:left;"| Indiana (ABA) | 14 || – || 35.6 || .401 || – || .767 || 11.4 || 1.9 || 0.8 || 1.0 || 12.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1975 | style="text-align:left;"| Memphis (ABA) | 4 || – || 13.5 || .500 || – || .556 || 6.0 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 1.5 || 6.8 |- |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan=2| Career | 109 || – || 35.8 || .449 || .000 || .683 || 14.8 || 1.5 || 0.7 || 1.1 || 17.4 College |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1964–65 | style="text-align:left;"| New Mexico | 27 || – || – || .486 || – || .610 || 11.2 || – || – || – || 17.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1965–66 | style="text-align:left;"| New Mexico | 23 || – || – || .485 || – || .738 || 10.3 || – || – || – || 21.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 1966–67 | style="text-align:left;"| New Mexico | 27 || – || – || .481 || – || .686 || 11.6 || – || – || – || 21.5 |- Personal life Daniels died on October 30, 2015, at the age of 71, from complications after heart surgery. He was survived by his wife, CeCe Daniels, son Mel Daniels Jr., two granddaughters, and two sisters. A lover of horses, Daniels lived on a ranch in Sheridan, Indiana at the time of his death. Daniels was longtime friends with Ira Harge, a teammate at New Mexico and was very close with Bob Netolicky, his Pacers teammate. Daniels appeared in 30 for 30 Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks (documentary, 2010), Magic vs. Bird: The 1979 NCAA Championship Game (TV special, 1979) and Undefeated: The Roger Brown Story (TV Movie, 2013). A poet, Mel Daniels wrote more than 20,000 poems in his lifetime. His favorite poet was Edgar Allan Poe. Honors In 1978, Daniels was inducted into the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame. Daniels' jersey (#34) was retired by the Indiana Pacers in 1985. He is one of four players (the others are teammate Roger Brown, Reggie Miller and teammate George McGinnis) to have his jersey retired by the Pacers. In 1997, Daniels was selected as a member of the ABA All-Time Team by a panel of ABA sports media, referees and executives. Daniels