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Yes.
Just curious ... Is this the first time that both teams who were in the finals the previous year lost in the 1st round?
Yes.
Another interesting note:
The Mavs were just the 12th team in league history to win 65 games or more. Ten of the other 11 went on to win the championship, with only the 1972-73 Boston Celtics -- who featured a certain Don Nelson -- falling short when they failed to use a 68-14 record as the springboard to a le largely because of an injury in the conference finals suffered by John Havlicek.
Wait...
The Fort Wayne Pistons and Philadelphia Warriors went out in the first round in 1957.
You're correct. First time in 50 years.
Ernie Johnson said you had to go back 50 years for the last time the 2 Finals Teams were knocked out in the 1st round the next season!
Where's that thread that shows the only teams in NBA history to have 60 wins in three of 5 seasons and how they did following.
This means Dallas = Jazz, Nowinski = Malone
On TNT last night they were saying Havlicek played that whole series left-handed because of his injury... and that team lost to the champs in game 7, after coming back from down 3-1 to force it.
Yeah, those Celts went down fighting. The Mavs went out with a whimper.
It is, however, the first time since the First round was extended to 7 games...
i think it was ernie on TNT say it happened in like 57 and 46 or something......
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