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The 2006 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2005–06 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat defeating the Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals .
The Mavericks would post the league's best record with 67 victories in the 2006–07 NBA season but were ousted by the eight-seeded Golden State Warriors in a six-game first round of the 2007 NBA Playoffs. The Mavs' playoff defeat marked the first time a top seed was eliminated in a seven-game first round series since it was implemented in 2003.
Player Position(s) Playoff team(s) played for (years) [2] Games played Titles won 1 LeBron James ^ SF: Cleveland Cavaliers (2006–2010, 2015–2018) Miami Heat (2011–2014) Los Angeles Lakers (2020–2021, 2023–2024) 287 4 2 Derek Fisher: PG: Los Angeles Lakers (1997–2004, 2008–2011) Utah Jazz Oklahoma City Thunder (2012–2014) 259 5 3 ...
As NBA play resumes after the All-Star break, the Sacramento Kings have their best chance at making the playoffs in years. The first-round games of the playoffs start on April 15, after the play ...
They become the third franchise (joining the 1969 Boston Celtics and 1977 Portland Trail Blazers, later joined by the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2021 Milwaukee Bucks) to win the NBA Finals after losing the first two games. The All-Star Game was played on February 19, 2006, at the Toyota Center in Houston with the East beating the West 122–120.
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]
Also memorable from this season was during a January 22, 2006 game vs. the Toronto Raptors where Bryant dropped a record 81 points, only the 2nd highest total in NBA history behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962. After the playoffs, Bryant underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in July.
Scottie Pippen in 1997-98 and Yao Ming in 2006-07 are the only ones to play fewer than 50 games and make an All-NBA roster in an 82-game season. ... in position to secure a home playoff seed ...