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Year Western champion Coach Result Eastern champion Coach Finals MVP [a] Ref; Basketball Association of America (BAA) 1947: Chicago Stags (1) (1, 0–1): Harold Olsen: 1–4
Year Top seed Record Year Eastern champion Western champion Year Champion No. of teams No. of games Notes Ref. Regular season Playoffs Finals; 1946–47: Washington Capitols: 49–11 (.817) 1947 — — 1947: Philadelphia Warriors: 11 60–61 Inaugural season (as BAA); started with 11 teams [5] 1947–48: St. Louis Bombers: 29–19 (.604) 1948 —
At 21 years and 197 days, Durant is the youngest scoring leader in NBA history, [12] averaging 30.1 points in the 2009–10 season. Stephen Curry led the league with an average of 30.1 points in the 2015–16 season and became the first player to win the title shooting 50–40–90 in a season.
The conference finals are currently played in a best-of-7 series like the NBA playoffs and Finals. The two series are played in late May each year after the first and second rounds of the Playoffs and before the Finals. After the conference finals, winners are presented with a silver trophy, caps, and T-shirts and advance to the NBA Finals.
The 2021–22 NBA season was the 76th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season began on October 19, 2021, and ended on April 10, 2022. [1] For the first time since the 2018–19 season, the NBA returned to its usual October to April regular season schedule after the previous two seasons were shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Every year, the National Basketball Association (NBA) awards titles to various leaders in the five basketball statistical categories—points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots. Both the scoring title and the assists title were recognized in the 1946–47 season are also recognized, when the league played its first season.
Youngest: Dwight Howard at 23 years and 128 days old, 2008–09 [24] Oldest: Dikembe Mutombo at 34 years old, 2000–01 [25] Youngest/Oldest Sixth Man of The Year winner; Youngest: Ben Gordon at 21 years old, 2004–05 rookie season [26] Oldest: Jamal Crawford at 36 years old, 2015–16 [27] Youngest/Oldest player to receive All-NBA First Team ...
A series win gave the Celtics their 18th championship, one more than the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in NBA history. [6] Their last win was in the 2008 NBA Finals. This is the Celtics' third Finals appearance where they played a team from Texas, as they previously defeated the Houston Rockets in the 1981 and 1986 Finals. [7] [8]