Will a team ever come back from 3-0 in the NBA?
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.
To date, there has never been a successful comeback from a 3–0 series deficit in the NBA. Of the 151 NBA teams that have fallen into a 3–0 deficit, only four of them (~3%) have forced a game seven, with all four losing in game seven.
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. 1996 NBA Finals: Seattle trailed Chicago 3-0, lost in six.
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.
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.
Including this postseason, there have been 130 occasions in which a team won the first three games of a best-of-seven. Only three of those series went to a seventh game. Here's a closer look at each series. Steve Nash and Dirk Nowtzki were pushed to a Game 7 in 2003 after blowing a 3-0 lead.
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.
In 1975, after compiling a 48–34 regular season record, the Golden State Warriors swept the Washington Bullets 4–0 in the 1975 NBA Finals.
Summary. The dramatic Celtics-Heat Eastern Conference finals series reached a bit of an anticlimactic blowout win for Miami. The Heat defeated Boston 103-84 to advance to the NBA Finals against the Denver Nuggets. The Heat will not be the first NBA team to blow a 3-0 series lead.
No team has ever blown a 3-0 lead in the NBA playoffs, but a few have bottled it when leading by 3 games to 1. With the 2022 Conference Finals underway, a bit of drama would not go amiss...
Has a team ever gone 82 0?
Has an NBA team ever finished a season with a record of 82-0? 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.
There have been no perfect seasons (or even perfect regular seasons) in the American Association, World Football League, United States Football League, original XFL, the Arena Football League or the Alliance of American Football, all of which are now defunct.
| TEAM | GP | FGA |
|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia 76ers | 18 | 84.1 |
| Boston Celtics | 37 | 89.5 |
| Milwaukee Bucks | 12 | 85.0 |
| Atlanta Hawks | 14 | 88.3 |
Statistics accurate as of December 26, 2023. Stephen Curry has made the most 3-point field goals in NBA history.
The picks were made by a panel of 100 reporters and broadcasters who cover the NBA. Antetokounmpo was the only unanimous selection this season as a first-teamer. Tatum got 92 first-team votes, Embiid got 87, Gilgeous-Alexander got 63 and Doncic got 60.
The Heat won the first 3 games of the series, and then the Celtics won the following 3 games. If the Celtics win on Monday night, they will complete a “reverse sweep”. This has never happened in any best-of-seven series in NBA playoff history!
James Harden and Damon Stoudamire are tied for missing the most three-pointers in a game with 16 misses.
Since the inception of the NBA, 148 game sevens have been played. Of those, six went into overtime, and one into double overtime. 37 game sevens have been won by the road team. Every active NBA franchise has played in at least one game seven.
Phoenix Suns
The Suns are one of the most storied franchises to have never won a title. They have the fifth-best winning percentage all-time among active teams and the second-best percentage among teams that have not won a championship (the best is the Utah Jazz).
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.
Who went 6 0 in the finals?
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.
Lillard and Westbrook are far from the only talented Nos. 0 currently working in the NBA, as the list also includes Kevin Love, Andre Drummond, Jayson Tatum, Aaron Gordon, Josh Richardson and Jeff Teague.
Led by Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, the team reached the Conference Finals four times over the following six years and returned to the NBA Finals in 2022, losing to the Golden State Warriors.
