Every round is a best-of-seven series. The series is played in a 2-2-1-1-1 format, which means that the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while the opposing team hosts games 3, 4, and 6, with games 5, 6, and 7 played if necessary. Teams will use their alternate jerseys for these games.
The team that wins more games becomes the winner of the series.
The NBA has an average attendance of 18,664 per game, which ranks third behind MLB's American League and National League and ahead of NHL's average of 16,984 per game.
There have been nine all-time meetings between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, with the Celtics winning four times. The most recent meeting was on May 12, 2018 at the Staples Center where the Lakers won 100-94.
Cleveland defeated Chicago 4-3 to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history. Game 7 was played at Cleveland before a crowd of 20,098 people, which remains the largest crowd to see a basketball game until Michael Jordan's retirement in 1991.
In 1975, the Seattle Supersonics became the first no-name team to make it to the NBA Finals after defeating the Indiana Pacers 4-3. However, they lost to the Washington Bullets in six games.
The playoffs in both leagues are held in the usual bracket style. The series is played in a 2-2-1-1-1 format, which means that the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while the opposing team hosts games 3, 4, and 6, with games 5-7 played if necessary. If one team leads by more than 3 games after seven games have been played, they will be declared the winner. If not, then the series goes back to its beginning for game 7.
In the NBA, teams play between four and six games per series, depending on the number of teams competing for a spot in the championship series. In each series, the team that wins three out of four games advances to the next round. If the series is tied 3-3, then there will be no further games until we get to the finals, when it would be decided who wins 4-3.
In the ABA, teams played only five games per series, so there was no need for any kind of tiebreaker system. However, since the ABA did not have an equivalent of the 3-2-1-1-1 format used by the NBA, but rather had a straight knockout format, there was no way for two teams to reach the finals without going through at least eight games.
All series will be best-of-seven, with the side that wins four games first advancing to the next round. The higher seeded team will enjoy home-court advantage. There are three rounds of play versus clubs from the same conference. The last club standing in each conference advances to the NBA Finals, with Conference Winner vs. Conference Winner being the matchup. If teams are tied after seven games, then a tiebreaker game will be played to determine which team advances.
The playoffs begin with a best-of-seven series between the first and second seed clubs. The winner of this round moves on to face the winner of the third-fourth match up in another best-of-seven series. This round is called the "Semifinals." The team that wins more games in the semifinals advances to the final round known as the "Award Final." Here they will face the team that won the other semifinal match up. This round is also best of seven games and the team that wins more games advances to the NBA Finals.
If the two teams are tied after seven games they will proceed to a playoff overtime period called "Shootout" where each team has one shot during five seconds on the clock. The team that makes the shot wins the game and the round. This round only happens if the two teams are still tied after seven games. If there are less than two minutes left in regulation time and the score is still tied, then the game goes into overtime.
It is played at the venue of the team with home-court advantage for the series, according to the playoff format arrangement. If a series reaches the sixth game, the requirement of a game seven is unknown until the conclusion of game six is established. However, if you are playing in a best-of-seven series and lose three games, you will need to win one more game to advance to the next round.
The most recent game seven was on May 13, 2017 in Boston between the Celtics and the Bucks. It was also the first ever game seven in Boston. The outcome of the game determined who would go to the Eastern Conference Finals against the Cavaliers. The Celtics won that game four to reach the 2018 NBA Championship game.
There have been many game sevens in National Basketball Association (NBA) history.
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