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The 1994–95 Houston Rockets, a sixth seed with a record of 47–35, are the lowest-seeded team to win the NBA Finals. [37] In the NBA Finals, the Rockets swept the Orlando Magic (57–25) in four games; in doing so, the Rockets defeated four teams that had won 50 or more games during the regular season (the Utah Jazz at 60–22, the Phoenix ...
In English, the round in which only eight competitors remain is generally called (with or without hyphenation) the quarter-final round; this is followed by the semi-final round, in which only four are left, the two winners of which then meet in the final or championship round. The round before the quarterfinals has multiple designations.
In the Stanley Cup Finals, the NBA finals, MLS Cup, and the World Series, the team with the better regular-season record receives the home-field advantage. The Super Bowl is held at a predetermined site regardless of which teams reach the game, which usually means there is no home advantage; it is possible for the host city's team to participate.
The final will be between the two semifinal winners. A bracket or tournament bracket is a tree-like diagram that represents the series of games played during a knockout tournament . Different knockout tournament formats have different brackets; the simplest and most common is that of the single-elimination tournament .
The Mavs are the 37th team in NBA history to trail 0-2 after the first two games of the NBA Finals. ... There have been 36 instances in finals history of a team trailing 0-2 to start the series ...
The Miami Heat eliminated the No. 5-seeded New York Knicks on Friday to become the second No. 8 seed ever to reach the conference finals. Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo led Miami in the 96-92 Game 6 ...
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 NBA Finals will be broadcast exclusively on ABC in the United States. In the UK, BBC One and TNT Sports will air the Finals, but international fans can also watch the best-of-seven series on ...