how many games are there in the nba finals?
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NBA playoffs The winner from each conference will advance to the final round, or the NBA Finals. All rounds are best-of-seven series. Series are played in a 2–2–1–1–1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while their opponent hosts games 3, 4, and 6, with games 5–7 being played if needed.
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A full guide to every team in the 2017 NCAA tournament Each team plays 82 games in a regular season. They play 41 games at home and 41 games away. The amount of games may vary if the team makes it to the playoffs. In order to win … an NBA championship, the team must win 16 games, whether it be all at home or away. 3 people found this useful.
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Why are there so many games in an NBA or MLB season? For starters, each team needs to play each other at least once on their home court and once in the other team's court. Beyond that, there isn't any rhyme or reason. Here's a little history on how the scheduling was developed over the years... NBA teams played 80 games each beginning in 1961-62.
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2015 NBA Finals He averaged 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists for the series, although he shot 39.8% throughout the series. For the second straight year, the Finals was played in the 2–2–1–1–1 format (Games 1, 2, 5, and 7 were at Golden State, games 3, 4, and 6 were at Cleveland).
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List of NBA champions The winning team of the series receives the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy. The home-and-away format in the NBA Finals is in a 2–2–1–1–1 format (the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in Games 1, 2, 5 and 7).
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16, 82, 162 â¦ Following a labor-dispute lockout, the 2011-12 NBA regular season tipped off on Christmas day with an abbreviated 66-game schedule. The season usually comprises 82 games, played from October to April. How did the league arrive at the number 82? It allows teams to play around three times per week for half the year.
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Theoretically, how many wins does an NBA team need to make the playoffs? NBA SCHEDULING FORMULA. Each team have to play: 1  4 games against the other 4 division opponents, [4x4=16 games] 2  4 games against 6 (out-of-division) conference opponents, [4x6=24 games] 3  3 games against the remaining 4 conference teams, [3x4=12 games]  2 games against teams in the opposing conference.
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The NBA season is too long The NBA season is too long. 82 games is a lot of games. That’s how many they play every year in the NBA, and it doesn’t always produce the best results for fans — in fact, it rarely does. Commissioner Adam Silver is a smart man, so — in spite of what he says — he probably knows this.
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1989 NBA Finals The Pistons had dominated the Eastern Conference, winning 63 games during the regular season. After sweeping the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks, the Pistons beat the Chicago Bulls in six games, earning a second straight trip to the NBA Finals.In the season before, the Lakers had beaten them in a tough, seven-game series.ollowing the series, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced his retirement at 42, after 20 years with the NBA. Pistons' guard Joe Dumars was named MVP for the series. Before the Lakers won in 2009, the Pistons were the last Finals champion to have been the runner-up the previous season as they were in 1988.
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- Between 1980 and 1989, the Celtics, 76ers, Pistons, or the Lakers won every NBA Finals. The Lakers won five titles from 1980 to 1990 (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988); the Celtics won three (1981, 1984, and 1986); the Pistons won twice (1989 and 1990); and the Sixers won once (1983).
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- Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Cavs is Tuesday at 6 p.m. PT in Cleveland. All of the Finals games will be televised on ABC, Channel 7 in the Bay Area. The best-of-7 series is tied at 1-1.
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- Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Cavs is Tuesday at 6 p.m. PT in Cleveland.
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- In the NBA, teams play 7 or 8 preseason games and 82 regular season games. For a team to win the championship, they would have to win four consecutive best-of-seven playoff ro … unds which means they would play another 16 to 28 games. So a team that wins the championship in the NBA would play well over 100 games per season which would include preseason, regular season, and playoffs.
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2015 NBA Finals The 2015 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2014–15 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.
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How long does the NBA season last and how long does the NFL season last? NBA: 82 games. Normally starts around Halloween, (With the exception of this year because of the lockout) and the regualar season ends in early April. The playoffs end in mid-June. NFL: 16 games. Normally starts the first week of September, and the regualr season ends the first week of January.
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- Quick Answer. In the 2010-2011 season, the average length of an NBA game was 138.1 minutes, or roughly 2 hours and 20 minutes. NBA games consist of four 12-minute quarters with a 15-minute halftime. As with any sport, a number of factors both in and outside of the actual game can affect the game's real-time length.
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The NBA season is too long By Athlon Sports, 3/18/15, 2:39 PM EDT. 82 games is a lot of games. That’s how many they play every year in the NBA, and it doesn’t always produce the best results for fans — in fact, it rarely does. Commissioner Adam Silver is a smart man, so — in spite of what he says — he probably knows this.
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How many games do you play in an NBA playoff game? Therefore, there may be 4 games if the series finishes with 4-0. There may also be 7 games, if t…he series finishes with 4-3. (There may be 5 or 6 games, too.) The most a team could play is 28 games. 7 in the first round, 7 in the Conference Semifinals, 7 in the Conference Finals, and 7 in the Championships.
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2016 NBA Playoffs With their 96–88 victory over the Thunder in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals, it would be the second consecutive season a NBA team rallied from a 3–1 series deficit to win the series and the Warriors became the tenth team in NBA playoff history to do this and the first to do so in the Conference finals since the 1981 Boston Celtics.
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- The National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament among 16 teams in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference (called divisions, pre-1970), ultimately deciding the winner of the NBA Finals.
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1989 NBA Finals The 1989 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1988–89 NBA season.The series was a rematch of the previous year's championship round between the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Lakers.ollowing the series, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced his retirement at 42, after 20 years with the NBA. Pistons' guard Joe Dumars was named MVP for the series. Before the Lakers won in 2009, the Pistons were the last Finals champion to have been the runner-up the previous season as they were in 1988.
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- Be sure to stay tuned. 5/20/15 - The NBA playoffs are down to the conference finals. The Eastern Conference final teams are the Hawks, ranked at number 1, and the Cavaliers, ranked at Number 2. The Cavaliers advanced to the conference finals by beating the Celtics in four games and the Bulls in six.ach round in the playoffs consists of a best of seven game series, and the team with the most wins in the regular season will get home court advantage. There is much anticipation for the 2015 NBA playoffs and you don’t want to miss out. Get your tickets today for the next NBA playoff game near you.
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Why is there an 82-game schedule? Stuck on 82. NBA teams played 80 games each beginning in 1961-62. The league added a game in 1966-67, bringing the total to 81, then ultimately settled on 82 games for the 1967-68 season, when the San Diego Rockets and Seattle SuperSonics joined the league. Now a 12-team league, the NBA had each team play its conference rivals eight times and its inter-conference foes seven times.
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Real time Length of NBA Games in the Playoffs Real time Length of NBA Games in the Playoffs. NBA Playoffs are over so it’s time for a follow-up to post about real-time duration of games in the last regular season with Average Length of NBA games in the Last 5 Playoffs. The longest game of that period lasted 3 hours and 56 minutes! It was a triple-overtime thriller between Bulls and Celtics in 2009.
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How Many Games Are in the NBA Basketball Season? How many NBA games were played in 2014? A: Between the 30 NBA franchises, teams played a total of 1,230 games during the 2014-15 regular season. The current 82-game team schedule, with 41 home games... Full Answer >
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- Three days later, the 2015 NBA playoffs games are slated to start on Saturday, April 18, 2015. The NBA Playoffs feature the top eight teams in each NBA conference all doing battle on the court in a best of seven series against each other.