There has never been a case in the history of the NBA playoffs where a team fell behind 0-3 and finally came back to advance. At the same time, NBA is also the only league among the major North American sports events that has not reversed a 0-3 deficit to advance. (MLB Professional Baseball League has appeared once, in 2004 Boston Red Sox reversed the New York Yankees; NHL Hockey League has appeared 4 times.)
But do you know? In the history of the NBA playoffs, there have been three teams that faced a 0-3 situation and still stubbornly tied the score to 3-3. Although they eventually lost the seventh life-and-death battle, their tenacity also allowed The team is one step away from making history.
1951 Finals New York Knicks 3-4 Rochester Royals (predecessor of the Kings)
In the finals of that year, the Rochester Royals defeated the Knicks by 27 points in the first game and then won two games in a row. But then the New Yorkers counterattack came, but unfortunately in G7, the Knicks lost by 34 points, and were only one step away from winning the fourth consecutive game.
1994 Western Conference Semifinals Denver Nuggets 3-4 Utah Jazz
As the No. 8 seed that year, the Nuggets faced the SuperSonics with "Glove" Payton and "Rain Man" Kemp in the first two games. He was quickly defeated. However, the Nuggets returned to their home court, relying on Reggie Williams to score a game-high 31 points, and immediately responded to their opponents with a 17-point victory. In the subsequent G4 and G5, they experienced two overtime battles and reversed the SuperSonics with a big score of 3-2 (the first round of the playoffs that year was the best of five games), which also made them the first team in NBA history. The team that completed the "Black Eight Miracle".
It is worth mentioning that the core of the Nuggets defense, which we later came to know as Uncle Mu, contributed 31 blocks in these 5 games, of which 8 blocks were scored in the most critical life-and-death battle. The scene where Uncle Mu fell to the ground holding the ball after the life-and-death battle is still a classic moment in NBA history.
In the subsequent semifinals, the Nuggets faced the Jazz with " black and white double evil " Malone Stockton , and the unfavorable situation of falling behind 0-3, and they were stunned to drag the game into a tiebreaker. It's just that in the final G7, Karl Malone and scored a comprehensive data of 31+14+6, giving no chance for the "black eight" to continue.
In the first round of the Western Conference in 2003, Trail Blazers 3-4 Mavericks (now the Mavericks)
The Mavericks, the third seed in the Western Conference, went smoothly in the first three games of the series. G1 and G3 Dirk Nowitzki scored respectively Scored 46 points and 42 points, Steve Nash also contributed the highest number of assists in each game, facing the aging Pippen, "Roaring God" Wallace and later "CBA's first big-name foreign aid" Will seems to be unable to stop the Mavericks from advancing.
But who would have known that Zach Randolph, who was still young at the time, was shot out of the Trail Blazers' diagonal spurs, and his scoring and rebounding were the highest on the team for three consecutive games (the three games' data were 25+15, 22+9 respectively) ,21+10). This operation of "Big Black Bear" also forced the two subsequent foreign MVPs into a desperate situation.
In the final seventh game, six members of the Trail Blazers team scored in double figures, but Noah King saved the team at the critical moment. He played 46 minutes and contributed 31 points, 11 rebounds, 2 steals and 3 blocks, plus Fan on the bench. -Exel's timely burst of 26 points, the Mavericks also avoided having his name written into embarrassing history.
