The 2019 NBA Championship has begun. The Clutch Time has compiled some trivia about the championship for fans, including player and team records.
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Player related records:
1. The tragic superstar’s only 60 points
There have been 68 games in history where a single player scored more than 60 points in a single game, but only one occurred in the championship game. In 1962, Lakers star Elgin Baylor scored 61 points in Game 5 against the Celtics. They defeated their opponents 126-121, but the Celtics won the championship after 7 bloody games in the series. Baylor also maintains another relatively sad record. He is the player in history who has played the most championships but failed to win the championship. In his 13 seasons in his career, he has reached the championship game in 8 seasons, but has always failed. And back, he is definitely the most tragic runner-up king in history.
2. Logo Man’s tragic FMVP
The NBA began to award the Finals Most Valuable Player (FMVP) award in 1969. It was won by Jerry West of the Lakers. It is also the only record in the NBA so far that a player from a losing team has won the FMVP. The Lakers and Celtics that year Lost after 7 games, but West averaged 37.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 7.4 assists, and scored 42 points, 12 rebounds and 13 assists in G7, but unfortunately lost in the end.John HavlicekandBill RussellThe Green Shirt Army led by.
3. Assist Master Magic
In the 1984-85 season, Magic Johnson averaged more than 12 assists in six championship games, setting a historical record to date. Magic also averaged 15.2 assists in the entire playoffs that year.
4. Qiao Shen Mighty
In 1997, Michael Jordan scored the NBA's latest buzzer beater in Game 1 of the Championship Game.
5. The youngest and oldest in history
Darko Milicic is the youngest player in the history of the NBA championship (18 years and 361 days), and won the championship game that year with the Pistons. And Robert Parish is the oldest championship winner (43 years old, Bulls in 1996-96 season).
6. The team is the most powerful
In the 2016 championship game, LeBron James ranked first on the team in scoring, rebounds, assists, steals and hot pot per game. He is also the only player in history to rank first on the team in these five statistics.
7. Euler Seconds Auction Champion Ring
Hakeem Olajuwon decided to auction off his championship ring after getting it because the Muslim faith prohibits wearing gold jewelry. After winning the second championship in the 1994-95 season, the Houston Rockets used platinum to make the championship ring.
8. The most versatile in history
LeBron James is the only player in the history of NBA championships who ranks in the top 10 in all five statistics and ranks third in scoring.,6th in rebounds, 2nd in assists, 2nd in steals, and 10th in hot pot. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was just shy of assists (12th, 6 shy), and Magic Johnson failed to make the list (42nd). James is also the only player to have played more than 20 championship games with two different teams (23 games for the Heat, 22 games for the Cavaliers), and 4 championship games each.
9. Master of Dream Plan
Robert Horry is the only player in history to win multiple championships with three teams, 2 times with the Rockets (1993-94, 1994-95), 3 times with the Lakers (1999-00, 2000-01), and Spurs 2 times (2004-05, 2006-07). Horry is also the non-Hall of Fame player with the most championship rings (tied with Jim Loscutoff). Loscutoff was a defensive specialist in the 1960s who won multiple championships with the Celtics. He and Horry are both non-Hall of Fame players but Can win 7 championships.
10. Qiao Shen Mighty 2
Michael Jordan scored at least 20 points in 35 championship games in his career, 32 of which were the team's highest score. Scottie Pippen (2 times) and Toni Kukoc (1 time) were the only Bulls players to score more than MJ during that period. Jordan averaged 33.6 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists in 6 championship series, with the most impressive average of 41 points against the Suns in the 1992-93 season.
11. The most powerful little person in history
Cedric Maxwell is the only NBA player in history to win FMVP and has not been selected to the All-Star or Hall of Fame. Maxwell helped the Celtics defeat the Rockets to win the championship in 1981, averaging 17.7 points and 9.5 rebounds per game (highest on the team in scoring, second only to Larry Bird in rebounding).
12. A collective explosion of stars
In the 2016-17 championship game, for the first time in NBA history, four players averaged more than 25 points per game.Kevin DurantAveraged 35.2 points per game, LeBron James averaged 33.6 points per game, Kyrie Irvin averaged 29.4 points per game,Stephen CurryAveraged 26.8 points per game.
Team related records:
13. In the 72-year history of the NBA, only 6 teams have been able to reach the championship game 4 times in a row:
Celtics: 1957-66 (9 championships, 1 runner-up)
Lakers: 1982-85 (2 championships, 2 Asia)
Celtics: 1984-87 (2 championships, 2 runner-ups)
Heat: 2011-14 (2 championships, 2 Asia)
Cavaliers: 2015-18 (1 championship, 3 Asia)
Warriors: 2015-19 (3 championships and 1 runner-up, this season is still in progress)
14. Championship regulars
Only 5 teams have more than 4 championships, the Celtics and Lakers have 17 and 17 respectively, the Bulls and Warriors have 6 each, and the Spurs have 5. The above teams Including the 69.4% championship in NBA history.
15. Purple Gold and Green Jersey Dynasty
The Lakers and Celtics have appeared in 41 of the NBA's current 73 championship series and have won a combined 34 championships. At the same time, the Celtics and Lakers also played against each other for the championship 12 times (the Celtics won 9 championships).
16. Championship with the lowest winning rate in history
In the 1995 season, the Rockets won the sixth seed with 47 wins and 35 losses, entered the playoffs, and finally won the championship. They also became the championship with the lowest winning rate in the regular season and no home court advantage from beginning to end.
17. Dark horse championship
Continuing on, the Rockets defeated four teams that won more than 50 games in the regular season: the Jazz 60 wins and 22 losses (3-2), the Suns 59 wins and 23 losses (4-3), and the Spurs 62 wins and 20 losses. losses (4-2) and the Magic's 57 wins and 25 losses (4-0), which are currently the only records in the NBA.
18. The surprising journey of the only 8th seed
In the closed season of 1999,Patrick EwingledThe Knicks won the 8th seed with 27 wins and 23 losses. Unexpectedly, they made it all the way to the championship game before losing to the Spurs coached by Gregg Popovich. They are also the only 8th seed to reach the championship game so far.
19. The most exciting king-conferring battle in history
The fifth game of the 1976 championship between the Celtics and the Suns was hailed as the most exciting battle in history. In the end, the Celtics won the championship 128-126 after three extensions.
20. If you want to win the championship, you must first move to this city.
California and Texas have won 22 championships combined, with California winning 13 and Texas winning eight. Among them, California has two teams that have won championships, the Lakers (12) and the Warriors (3), while Texas has three teams that have won the championship, the Spurs (5) and the Rockets (2). and Dallas (1).
21. The weirdest championship schedule in history
In the 1975 championship game, the Warriors' home court had been reserved in advance, so they were able to go to the Cow Palace in San Francisco as their home court. However, due to difficulties in execution, the series was changed to a 1-2-2-1-1 format.
22. Championship in the post-Qiao Shen era
Since 1999 (post-Jordan era), the Spurs, Lakers, Pistons, Heat, Celtics, Mavericks, Warriors and Cavaliers have all won championships.
23. To win the championship, get the first three seeds first
Since the NBA expanded the playoff quota to 16 teams in 1984, only 5 times (8%) the championship team was ranked fourth seed or below (the fourth seed Cavaliers in 2018, the fourth seed in 2010 Celtics, 2006 fourth-seeded Mavericks, 1999 eighth-seeded Knicks and 1995 fifth-seeded Rockets).
24. The sad teams that have not yet won the championship
Among the current 30 NBA teams, 6 teams have not played in the NBA championship game (the Toronto Raptors entered the championship game for the first time in the 2018-19 season), including the Hornets, Pelicans, Clippers, Timberwolves, Grizzlies and Nuggets.
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