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The playoff format in place for the 2005 and 2006 NBA playoffs created controversy and would be changed prior to the 2006–07 NBA season. [ 7 ] Prior to 2004, when the NBA was aligned into two conferences with two divisions each, the division champions were guaranteed the top two seeds.
The 2005 NBA Finals was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2004–05 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs.The Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs played the Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons for the title, [1] with the Spurs holding home court advantage and the Pistons as defending champions.
The NBA Finals was initially structured in a 2–2–1–1–1 format. [4] ... 2005, and 2007. During the 1999 NBA playoffs, the Spurs finished with a 15–2 mark.
Major League Baseball (MLB) has used a best-of-seven format for the League Championship Series since 1985, and for the World Series between 1905 and 1918, and since 1922. [ f ] MLB uses the "2–3–2" format. The National Basketball Association (NBA) uses a "2–2–1–1–1" format for all playoff rounds including the Finals.
This is a complete listing of National Basketball Association (NBA) playoff series, ... 1988, 2005, 2015: 16 2–1 .667 Phoenix Suns: 3 2005, 2006, 2022: 19 2–1
a The home-and-away format in every round of the playoffs is the 2–2–1–1–1 format (the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in games one, two, five and seven). The format of the finals from 1984 to 2013 used the 2–3–2 format (the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in ...
Last NBA Finals game seven won by the away team until 2016. 1984 [63] Boston Celtics: Los Angeles Lakers: 111–102: Boston Garden, Boston: Last NBA Finals until 2014 that followed a 2–2–1–1–1 format. 1988 [64] Los Angeles Lakers: Detroit Pistons: 108–105: The Forum, Inglewood, California: Second consecutive championship for Los Angeles.
The NBA play-in tournament is the preliminary National Basketball Association (NBA) postseason tournament. It determines the final two playoff seeds in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference and is played immediately prior to the NBA Playoffs, which is the main tournament of the postseason and regarded by the league as separate from the play-in tournament.