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The Lakers won their third straight championship in a four-game sweep of the New Jersey Nets the following year. Also for the Lakers, their 15–1 postseason record was the best in NBA history. This record would later be broken in the 2017 NBA playoffs by the Golden State Warriors , who achieved a 16–1 record en route to their NBA ...
The Sixers acquired Philadelphia-native Wilt Chamberlain in 1964 from the Warriors and defeated Chamberlain's former team in the 1967 Finals, but suffered a sharp fall from grace due to the loss of Chamberlain to retirement and Billy Cunningham to the ABA: [5] in 1972–73 the team won only nine games, the fewest in an 82-game NBA season.
The Sixers, bolstered by the addition of league MVP Moses Malone, won 65 games, and steamrolled through the playoffs, in which they lost only once (completing Malone's famous "Fo, Fo, Fo" prediction, stating that the Sixers needed to win 4 games in each of the three series) in route to their third NBA title overall (they won in 1955 as the ...
The Sixers won the NBA Championship by beating the San Francisco Warriors in six games, giving the Sixers and Chamberlain their first title. The 1966–67 76ers were voted in 1980 as being the greatest team in the history of the NBA to that point.
The Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 2 to win their seventh championship. [1] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the league's MVP, but midway through Game 5, the Lakers center suffered a severely sprained ankle. [2]
Here’s 10 takeaways from the Toronto Raptors’ 125-89 win over the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 to take a 3-2 series lead.
The Philadelphia 76ers lost 105-103 to the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday night at the ... In light of Embiid being on the bench for the entire fourth quarter of a game Philadelphia should have won, ...
Philadelphia fought back and won the next three games to win the series. In the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the 76ers squared off against the Toronto Raptors and their superstar, Vince Carter. The teams alternated wins in the first four games, with Iverson scoring 54 points in Philadelphia's Game Two victory.