seven nba finals have not gone to game 7.
how many nba finals have not gone to game 7?
seven
bullet::::- the 1993 finals were jordan's last before his first retirement. the houston rockets would take the next two titles consecutively. the ratings for those next two finals decreased, but still had above-average views, and the 1995 finals even came to within .3 ratings points of the 1992 finals and featured superstar shaquille o'neal making the finals with the orlando magic, which were swept 4-0 by the rockets. after the two seasons, jordan returned. subsequently, and almost instantly, ratings greatly increased. jordan's first game back, a march 19, 1995 game between the bulls and the indiana pacers, scored a 10.9 rating for nbc, the highest rated regular-season nba game of all time. ratings for the finals (which the bulls played in the following three years) went up sharply as well. game 1 of the 1996 nba finals between the bulls and seattle supersonics, the bulls' 107-90 win at home in the united center earned a 16.8 rating and a 31 share on nbc. in addition, game 1 was viewed in a then record 16,111,200 homes. on june 16, 1996, game 6 of the nba finals (where the bulls clinched their fourth nba championship in six years) drew an 18.8 rating and a 35 share. the six games of the 1996 nba finals averaged a 16.7 rating which ranks second all-time behind the 1993 nba finals. the six games of the 1993 nba finals between the bulls and suns averaged a 17.9 rating. the next year, ratings for the bulls–utah jazz series were slightly better, before the 1998 finals blew away the 1993 record, averaging an 18.7 rating—one which will likely not be matched by the nba finals for the foreseeable future. the deciding game 6 (and michael jordan's final game with the bulls) registered an nba record 22.3 rating with a 38 share. the game was viewed by 72 million people, breaking the record set earlier that postseason by game 7 of the 1998 eastern conference finals between the pacers and bulls (that same game set a record for highest-rated non-finals nba game with a 19.1/33). the 1998 finals managed to best the ratings for that year's world series, the first of only three nba finals ever to do so.
list of nba finals broadcasters
the knicks made history by playing a record 25 playoff games (one short of the maximum), the most postseason games that an nba team had ever played. the 2005 detroit pistons tied this record. however, it was broken by the 2008 celtics. their easiest series was the first-round 3–1 win over the nets. new york then forced three consecutive game 7s, eliminating the bulls 4–3 in the conference semifinals, knocking off the pacers 4–3 in the conference finals, both times at madison square garden, before losing in game 7 to the rockets at the summit in the nba finals, which meant new york was denied nba and nhl titles. game 4 of the finals took place at the garden a day after the new york rangers won their first stanley cup in 54 years in game 7 of the 1994 stanley cup finals. knicks coach pat riley made history by becoming the first (and to this date, the only) person in nba history to have coached a game 7 in the nba finals for two teams, having been with the lakers in and . however, he had the distinction to have become the first (and , only) coach to lose a game 7 in the nba finals on two teams, as his lakers lost to the celtics in 1984. it also denied him the distinction of becoming the first coach to win a game 7 in the nba finals with two teams, as his lakers defeated the detroit pistons in 1988.
1994 nba playoffs