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The 2007–08 Boston Celtics season was the 62nd season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Powered by the offseason blockbuster acquisitions of perennial All-Stars Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to join with established star Paul Pierce, the trade enabled the Celtics to finish the season with a record of 66–16 in addition to posting the best single-season ...
From January 29, 2008, to March 18, 2008, the Houston Rockets won 22 consecutive games, notching the fourth-longest winning streak in NBA history. The Boston Celtics broke the record for the best single-season turnaround in NBA history by improving from 24 wins in 2006–07 to 66 wins this season, a total of 42 games. [17]
Denotes player who is currently on the Boston Celtics roster 0.0 Denotes the Boston Celtics statistics leader (min. 100 games played for the team for per-game statistics)
The 2008 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2007–08 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs.A best-of-seven playoff series that was played from June 5–17, 2008, the series was contested between the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics and the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers.
The Boston Celtics, the team with the league's best record, came into New Orleans with three players. Kevin Garnett, top vote-getter in the league with 2,399,148 votes, was selected as a starter, while Paul Pierce and Ray Allen (replacing injured Washington Wizards forward Caron Butler) [6] were selected as reserves by the coaches of the Eastern Conference [7] Garnett did not play due to ...
With the win the Celtics set a record for most games a team had ever played in a postseason with 26. [111] The 2008–09 Celtics started off the season at 27–2, the then-best starting record in NBA history. [112] They also had a franchise-record 19-game streak. [113]
The Celtics posted the highest net rating of any team in five years, won 64 games and never played more than five games in a playoff series, cruising to last season's championship.
The 2008 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2007–08 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals .