Just look at the anticlimactic Game 7 itself, which the Bruins won 4-0.As tempted as I was to go with riots and deflated tires, the epic back-and-forth between two of the best teams of the decade ultimately swayed me.From 2009-10 through 2014-15, the Blackhawks and Kings won five of the six Stanley Cups.
Los Angeles didn’t just come back from a 3-0 deficit against the Sharks.
The 50 best plays of all time. Then, MJ, pissed off at the media for reporting that he was gambling in Atlantic City between Games 1 and 2, scored 54 points — while shootting 18-for-30 from the field, including 6-for-9 from 3-point range — in a Game 4 win.
Nine years into his career, Barkley had played in only one conference finals — a five-game loss to Boston in his rookie year — and so, 1993 presented his best chance at earning a first trip to the NBA Finals.In Game 5 of a dead-locked series, Barkley submitted a career-defining performance, dropping 43 points, 15 rebounds, and 10 assists, to put Phoenix one win away from the Finals. In Game 6, with a chance to dethrone the Warriors, the Thunder held an eight-point lead at the start of the fourth. Only once before — against these Knicks, in 1992 — had Chicago faced adversity.
I would never do that.Personally, I don’t think it’s out of place to put last year’s Golden Knights – Sharks series on this list.
This is a list of National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise post-season appearance droughts.This list includes the all-time and the active consecutive non-playoffs.Aside from the NBA playoff appearance droughts, this list also includes droughts of series wins, appearances in the NBA Finals and NBA championship wins. Except they didn’t. Grudges that inspire handshake line death threats? With the Knicks trailing by one in the final seconds, Smith had four chances to make a layup. Just when you thought the Clippers were about to fold, they gutted out a win on the road in Game 4.
That’s difficult to swallow. They absolutely roared back, winning those last four games by a combined score of 19-5.It turned out that the Kings would not be denied that postseason, and I cannot deny that their battle with the Blackhawks was the best of a strong decade of playoff series for the NHL.As he skated around the Blues’ net after firing home the Canucks’ third goal, The goal was meaningful for two reasons: It gave Vancouver the lead for good in The Canucks defenseman opened up about the loss of his dad to “I miss my dad every day. Then San Antonio won a gut-check Game 5 to take a 3–2 series back home. Sandwiched between second round losses in ’97 and ’99, Shaq’s best chance at a championship ended with a sweep in the ’98 WCF. Over this period, they only played in two Game 7s: the 1992 Eastern Conference Semifinals (vs. New York) and the 1998 Eastern Conference Finals (vs. Indiana). While the Celtics were the class of the East, with their star, Larry Bird, the face of ‘basketball nirvana’, the Pistons were afterthoughts, a team with a chip on its shoulder, vilified by their bully-ball tactics and cocky demeanor. MJ guaranteed a win in Game 7, but things didn’t look good for Chicago as Indiana raced off to a 20–7 lead and was still ahead 79–77 with less than six minutes left.
That 2014 Western Conference Final ended up being the peak of that rivalry.No doubt, the Kings pulling off the fourth-ever “reverse sweep” helped sway me, too. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The Celtics held off the Rockets in 6 games to win the NBA Championship. While the Thunder had many chances to win in Game 7, they’d already wasted their best one, and, with Durant leaving for Golden State two months later, their final one.We remember Jordan and the Bulls by the ease at which they dominated each postseason leading up to their six titles. Also like the series, the Flyers refused to roll over, Aside from a respectable first-round series loss to the Capitals in 2016-17, every Maple Leafs season since 2005-06 ended in one of two ways:We didn’t know it yet, but the “it was 4-1” nightmare ended up being the most horrific part of a terrifying trilogy. But the Bulls finally took the lead for good when Jordan sunk two free throws and Scottie Pippen followed with an 18-foot jumper.