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1950 NBA Finals

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Dates
  
April 8−23

Champion
  
Los Angeles Lakers

Radio network
  
WLOL (MPLS)WNDR (SYR)

Start date
  
April 8, 1950

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Hall of Famers
  
Eastern Finals
  
Nationals defeated Knickerbockers, 2−1

Western Finals
  
Not the Western final (see text). Central champion Lakers defeated Western champion Packers, 2−0

Similar
  
1959 NBA Finals, 1947 BAA Finals, 1964 NBA Finals, 1958 NBA Finals, 1972 NBA Finals

The 1950 NBA Finals was the championship round of the inaugural National Basketball Association 1949–50 season. Central Division champion Minneapolis faced Eastern Division champion Syracuse in a best-of-seven series with Syracuse having home-court advantage.

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The NBA recognizes three preceding Basketball Association of America (BAA) seasons as part of its own history, and thus presents the 1950 Finals as its fourth championship series. Minneapolis had won the 1949 BAA Finals and its 1950 win over Syracuse is officially the Lakers second of five titles in Minneapolis.

In the event, six games were played in sixteen days, beginning Saturday and Sunday, April 8 and 9, in Syracuse and incorporating two subsequent Sunday games in Minneapolis. Counting a Central Division tiebreaker played on Monday, March 20, the entire postseason tournament spanned five full weeks to Sunday, April 23.

The NBA was arranged in three divisions (for its first season only) and the first two rounds of the 1950 NBA Playoffs generated three Division champions. With the league's best regular season record, Syracuse had earned a place in the Finals by winning the Eastern Division title on the preceding Sunday, and had been five days idle while the Central and Western champions had played a best-of-three series mid-week.

In Game 1, The Lakers won on a buzzer beating shot by sub Bob "Tiger" Harrison, the first known case of a buzzer beater in the Finals. 6'8" Dolph Schayes of Syracuse led his team out to the finals after a 16.8 ppg average during the regular season. George Mikan, however, averaged 27.4 ppg and led the league. Mikan would lead the Lakers past Syracuse in six games.

Bob harrison describes his buzzer beater in 1950 nba finals


Series summary

Lakers win series 4−2

References

1950 NBA Finals Wikipedia


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