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Under head coach K. C. Jones, the 1985–86 Boston Celtics finished the regular season with a record of 67–15. This team is generally considered to be the best of Larry Bird's career. In addition to longtime Celtics Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, the franchise was joined on the front line by former NBA MVP Bill Walton.
The 1985–86 NBA season was the 40th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Boston Celtics winning their third championship of the decade, beating the Houston Rockets 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals. This will be their last championship until winning it again in 2008.
The 1986 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 1985–86 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs.It pitted the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics against the Western Conference champion Houston Rockets, in a rematch of the 1981 NBA Finals (though only Allen Leavell and Robert Reid remained from the Rockets' 1981 team).
Pages in category "1985–86 NBA season by team" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... 1985–86 Boston Celtics season; C. 1985–86 ...
The Celtics rewrote the record books during the 2023-24 regular season in several categories — points (9,887), 3-pointers (1,351), 50-point wins (three) and wins in a row (11) — and were a ...
Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game with the Boston Celtics x: 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)
It documents the team's season-by-season records, including postseason records, and also includes year-end awards won by the team's players and/or coaches. With 18 NBA championships, the Celtics have the most amongst all NBA franchises, while the 1959-to-1966 domination of the NBA Championship, with eight straight titles, is the longest ...
Thanks to the 1984 trade of Gerald Henderson and the subsequent fall of the Seattle SuperSonics, at the end of the 1985–86 season the Celtics owned not only the best team in the NBA but also the second pick in the 1986 NBA draft. The Celtics drafted small forward Len Bias with the pick and had high hopes for the young Maryland Terrapins star ...