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The 1977–78 NBA season was the team's 17th season in the NBA and their 5th season in the city of Washington, D.C. [1] It would prove to be their most successful season, as they would win their first and only NBA championship as of 2024. In the NBA Finals, they defeated the Seattle SuperSonics in seven games.
It includes his 1978 championship ring, a game-worn Bucks home jersey from the 1972-73 season, a game-worn Bullets jersey from Game 3 of the NBA Finals in 1979 and his Naismith Memorial Hall of ...
Oshman died in 1965. By that year Oshman's was Texas's largest sporting goods chain, [3] and it was the largest sporting goods chain in the southwestern United States. At that time the company had ten sporting goods stores and two wholesale firms located in the Gulf Coast region. [4] In the 1970s, Oshman's was expanding in the Los Angeles area. [5]
The Bullets would continue to remain one of the top teams in the league, as they captured the Atlantic Division championship with a league best record of 54–28. The Bullets ended the regular season losing 8 of their last 11 games, but rebounded in the playoffs with victories in both the Eastern Conference semifinals and Eastern Conference ...
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The 1979 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association’s 1978–79 season.The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Seattle SuperSonics defeating the Eastern Conference champion Washington Bullets 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals.
The Washington Bullets shifted from the Central Division to the Atlantic Division. The franchise also won its last division title until the 2016–17 season . The NBA adopted a three-official system similar to the one used in college basketball (but not used in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament until 1979 ) on a one-year trial basis.
He went on to have a productive nine-year (1974–1983) professional career, playing for the Hawks, the Washington Bullets, and the Houston Rockets. Henderson accumulated 6,088 career points and 3,136 career assists , and he reached the NBA Finals three times, winning with the Bullets in 1978.