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The 1949–50 NBA season marked the first season following the merger. The NBA has kept a record of its win-loss statistics since its inception. These records include wins and losses recorded during a team's playing time in the BAA. [a] Defunct BAA/NBA franchises are also accounted for, provided that they played at least one season in the BAA ...
All NBA Finals have been played in a best-of-seven format, and are contested between the winners of the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference (formerly Divisions before 1970), except in 1950 when the Eastern Division champion faced the winner between the Western and Central Division champions.
The league adopted its current name at the start of the 1949–50 season when it merged with the National Basketball League (NBL). [2] The NBA Finals is the championship series for the NBA and the conclusion of the sport's postseason. The winning team of the series receives the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy.
The NBA Finals was initially structured in a 2–2–1–1–1 format. [4] In 1985 , to ease the amount of cross-country travel, it was changed to a 2–3–2 format, in which the first two and last two games of the series were played at the arena of the team who earned home-court advantage by having the better record during the regular season.
Jordan ranks second all-time in scoring average in the Finals at 33.6 points per championship game, trailing only Rick Barry, who put up 36.3 points in 25 fewer Finals appearances, and has the ...
The 2000–01 NBA season was the 55th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Los Angeles Lakers winning their second straight championship, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 1 in the 2001 NBA Finals .
1. Name a big winner from the first week of the season. Vincent Goodwill: The Oklahoma City Thunder (beating teams by nearly 20 points a night). They are looking to break the trend of a new team ...
The reigning NBA MVP, Embiid finished with 30 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his sixth career triple-double. It was Embiid's first of the season and his seventh career game with 10-plus ...