Has a team ever blown a 3-0 lead NBA?
NBA history has seen 11 teams turn a 3-0 lead into a 4-2 series loss. Those teams, in chronological order, are: The 2022 Toronto Raptors, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round.
1951 NBA Finals: New York trailed Rochester Royals 3-0, lost in seven. 1962 Western Division finals: Detroit trailed L.A. Lakers 3-0, lost in six. 1994 Western Conference semifinals: Denver trailed Utah 3-0, lost in seven.
To date, there has never been a successful comeback from a 3β0 series deficit in the NBA. Of the 151 NBA teams that have fallen into a 3β0 deficit, only four of them (~3%) have forced a game seven, with all four losing in game seven.
How many times has an NBA team come back from a 3-0 deficit in the playoffs? The unfortunate answer is zero times. While no teams have come back to win after being down 3-0, there are three teams that have rallied to tie up a series 3-3 and went on to lose Game 7.
No team in NBA playoff history has ever come all the way back from a 3-0 deficit to win a series, but three teams have come close. The 1951 New York Knicks, the 1994 Denver Nuggets, and the 2003 Portland Trail Blazers are the only teams in league history to force a Game 7 after trailing 3-0 in a series.
In 1975, after compiling a 48β34 regular season record, the Golden State Warriors swept the Washington Bullets 4β0 in the 1975 NBA Finals.
Has any team gone undefeated in the NBA? There are no teams with zero defeats. In the playoffs, only two teams go undefeated to NBA finals. Lakers in 2001 and Warriors in 2017.
Has an NBA team ever went 82-0? No, of course not. The odds of an NBA team going unbeaten in 82 games would be astronomical. The best regular-season record of all time by an NBA team was by the 2016 Golden State Warriors, who went 73β9.
How many times has Michael Jordan been swept in the NBA Playoffs? Jordan was swept out of the playoffs twice in his career, but it comes with a caveat. Both sweeps came in the first round in best-of-5s.
Several NBA teams have come close to sweeping the playoffs, but no team has stayed undefeated throughout the entire league postseason series.
What is the biggest deficit in NBA?
73 Points β Memphis Grizzlies 152, Oklahoma City Thunder 79 (Dec. 2, 2021) In the biggest blowout in NBA history, the surprising Grizzlies set franchise records for most points in a game and highest shooting percentage (62.5%)β¦and they were missing star point guard Ja Morant.
| Best-of-7 series | Reverse sweeps | |
|---|---|---|
| NHL hockey | 755 | 4 |
| NBA basketball | 601 | 0 |
| MLB baseball | 184 | 1 |
There are 13 teams that have overcome a 3-1 series deficit and won Game 7 in the NBA playoffs. The 2015-16 Cleveland Cavaliers are the only team to come back after being down 3-1 in the NBA Finals and win Game 7.
Celtics and Knicks are the only NBA teams that have never moved locations.
| TEAM | GP | FGA |
|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia 76ers | 18 | 84.1 |
| Boston Celtics | 37 | 89.5 |
| Milwaukee Bucks | 12 | 85.0 |
| Atlanta Hawks | 14 | 88.3 |
The rule about "0" and "00" no longer applies in the NBA but previously, in 2000, Utah Jazz center Greg Ostertag changed from "00" to "39" so Olden Polynice could wear No. 0 and in 2003, Washington Wizards center Brendan Haywood switched from No. 00 to No. 33 so Gilbert Arenas (who had the nickname "Agent Zero" already ...
No, no NBA team has ever achieved a record of 82-0. The team that came closest was the Golden State Warriors in 2015-2016, finishing the Regular Season with a record of 73-9.
Below, we present a gallery of all the players who never lost in the NBA Finals, led by John Havlicek, KC Jones and Tom Sanders, who went 8-0 in the league's championship series.
Michael Jordan famously went 6-0 in the Finals. Less famously so, he went 0-6 in playoff games vs. Boston. Win or lose, he was always A BEAST.
Normally a player chooses his own number, unless it has already been retired by the team. In that case, the player chooses another, or in frustration choose β00ββ¦ NBA players get to choose they're number, and they chose the number zero. Damian Lillard wears it to represent the O in his hometown of Oakland.
Has any NBA team scored 200 points in a game?
No, no basketball team has ever scored 200 points in a professional game. The closest any team has come to this feat was in 1983, when the Detroit Pistons scored 186 points in a triple-overtime game against the Denver Nuggets, who scored 184 points.
The Kings compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The Kings are the oldest team in the NBA, and the first and only team in the major professional North American sports leagues located in Sacramento.
The 2007 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2006β07 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs. In this best-of-seven playoff series, the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs defeated the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers in a 4β0 sweep.
The 2023 NBA All-Star Game is officially in the books as Team Giannis has taken down Team LeBron by the score of 184-175 to hand the league's all-time scoring champion his first loss as an All-Star Game captain.
No team has ever gone a full NBA season undefeated at their home arena. The record is one loss, which the great '86 Celtics team achieved iirc.
