8. Golden State beats 1. Dallas Mavericks 4-2 in 2007 First Round
8. New York Knicks beat 1. Miami Heat 3-2 in 1999 First Round
8. Denver Nuggets beat 1. Seattle Supersonics 3-2 in 1994 First Round
8. New York Knicks beat 2. Indiana Pacers 4-2 in 1999 Second Round
Vote on it, and discuss. Thought it'd be an interesting deal
We've got the Golden State vs. Dallas series from '07, The New York Knicks vs. Miami series in '99, the Denver Nuggets vs. Seattle Supersonics series in 1994, or the Knicks beating the Pacers in '99.
Now people..come on...the Dallas series wasn't that big of an upset..I shouldn't have even put that on here..I knew people would vote for that for the sheer hatred of the Mavs..Golden State had beaten Dallas and confused them all year..I kind of expected it.
oops i didn't see the mavs thing i voted for Nuggs with Deke that was crazy but a 67 win team losing to an 8 seed is probably one of the biggest upsets in sports, not counting the NFL because they don't have a 7 game series
Giants over Patriots
like i said, 1 GAME. In a 7 game series 99% of the time the better team will win
What about the 1995 Finals between the Rockets and Magic? I know that the Rockets were the defending champs but they were the 6th seed in the West and didn't have homecourt advantage in any of their playoff series that year. The Rockets didn't even win 50 games that year.
We're only gonna score 17 points? hehehehehe, Ok.
I don't get it. Golden State confused Dallas all season. I actually expected GS to win. The Nuggs beating Seattle, IMO is Definitely the biggest upset.
Who made you the criteria judge?
18-1
yea but they were THE DEFENDING CHAMPS. Thats never an upset.
It was an upset, but not as big as the 4 on here..being all 8-1 seed defeats except for one. Even though I don't really think the Dallas/GS series was a huge upset. I just had to put it on here because it was an 8-1
yea but they were THE DEFENDING CHAMPSNever underestimate the heart of a champion.
Exactly, like i said the Better team won. I'm talking about head 2 head obviously.
The Superbowl is 1 game. Don't tell me the giants would have won in a 5 or 7 game series...
Never...I don't think the Giants would have won 2 games in a 7 game series..they just took the most important one.
I don't see how it could be anything other than Nuggets over Sonics in '94:
- Golden State was a horrible matchup for Dallas; they'd gone undefeated against the Mavs in the regular season and Avery was pretty much Don Nelson's even before the series. My recollection is that most people figured Dallas was in for a dogfight going in. Besides, Golden State dominated that series. They should have won it in five, not six. How much of an upset can a series be when it's that one-sided?
- New York over Miami? The Knicks had beaten the Heat in the previous year's playoffs, beat them again in 2000, and only lost to them in '97 because Ewing, Houston and Ward were suspended for Game 6. The '99 Knicks were a very good team that was a little beat up in the lockout season. Certainly better than their place in the standings would indicate, and they proved as much by getting to the Finals. At any rate, there was very little difference talent-wise between New York and Miami. Two very, very evenly matched teams.
-Now, with Denver-Seattle, all you have to do is look at the disparity between the teams in the years immediately prior to and following 1994. Seattle had been to the WC Finals in '93, won 57 games in '95, and won '64 games, plus the WC Championship, in '96. The core of that Denver team never had a winning season besides '94, when they won 42 games. It was one of the dominant teams of the '90s losing to a team that can barely be called a flash-in-the-pan.
It's Nuggets-over-Sonics with a bullet AFAIC.
Tyree!!!! HE CATCHES IT WITH HIS HELMET!!!!!!
Point blank period
Didn't the Warriors go 17-1 when every one got healthy at the end of the season?
Seattle fell apart psychologically in that series. They expected Denver to roll over in three straight games and when that didn't happen, they didn't know how to handle it. You could see in Game 5 how tight the Sonics were. They were playing not to lose at that point.
Exactly...To be a one seed, and one game away from a sweep, and let it fall and lose to an 8th seed, even after getting back into it in the final game and taking it to OT..it's huge.
Something like that...that team was a team on a roll...
I'd put the entire 1981 Western Conference Playoffs on the list. All five series were won by the lower seeds; all five saw the lower seeds clinch on the road, and the WC Finals that year were between two teams with losing records- the Kansas City Kings (40-42) and the Rockets (40-42).
Dikembe was a beast at that time !
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