Out of the first 76 editions of the NBA Finals — the 77th title series starts Thursday night in Denver when the Nuggets play host to the Miami Heat — the series has ended in six games 30 times.
The title series has gone to Game 7 on 19 occasions, ended in five games on 18 occasions and wound up as a four-game sweep only nine times.
Denver has already set a single-season franchise home wins mark, with 42 entering this series . If the Nuggets go 3-0 or 4-0 home in the NBA Finals, they’ll pass the 1976-77 team for the second-best home record in franchise history.Who says divisional play is meaningless? For the 11th time in the last 12 seasons, a division champion will win the NBA title.Last season, Golden State won the NBA title despite finishing 11 games behind Phoenix.
Abdul-Jabbar is one of four players to get playing time in the finals after turning 40; Herb Williams, Karl Malone and Kevin Willis are the others. Haslem didn’t appear in the 2020 finals. He last played a finals game on June 15, 2014, six days after his 34th birthday.Miami needs one win to break a tie with the 1998-99 New York Knicks for most wins by a No. 8 seed in NBA playoff history.
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