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2020: Beginning in 2020, play-in games were used to determine the final qualified team(s) in the first round of the NBA playoffs. In the 2020 play-in format, if the ninth-place team within a conference finished the regular season within four games of the eighth-place team, they would compete in a postseason play-in series. [11]
The NBA Finals was initially structured in a 2–2–1–1–1 format. [4] In 1985 , to ease the amount of cross-country travel, it was changed to a 2–3–2 format, in which the first two and last two games of the series were played at the arena of the team who earned home-court advantage by having the better record during the regular season.
The current home-and-away format in the NBA Finals is 2–2–1–1–1 (the team with the better regular season record plays on its home court in games 1, 2, 5, ...
Victory in this year’s Finals would give the Celtics a record-breaking 18th NBA title, taking them past the Los Angeles Lakers as the most successful franchise in the league. Jayson Tatum is ...
The field for the 2023-24 NBA Playoffs is set. Up first is the play-in tournament, a single-elimination format that'll decide the No. 7 and No. 8 seed for each conference. It's scheduled for April ...
a The home-and-away format in every round of the playoffs is the 2–2–1–1–1 format (the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in games one, two, five and seven). The format of the finals from 1984 to 2013 used the 2–3–2 format (the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in ...
This ensures that, if the home team wins every game, the team with home-field advantage never trails in the series. From 1985 to 2013, the NBA finals used the "2–3–2" format (the team with the home-court advantage plays games 1, 2, 6, and 7 on their home court). This can theoretically allow the team with the home-court advantage to trail in ...
Last NBA Finals game seven won by the away team until 2016. 1984 [63] Boston Celtics: Los Angeles Lakers: 111–102: Boston Garden, Boston: Last NBA Finals until 2014 that followed a 2–2–1–1–1 format. 1988 [64] Los Angeles Lakers: Detroit Pistons: 108–105: The Forum, Inglewood, California: Second consecutive championship for Los Angeles.