How Many Games Are In the NBA Finals?
The NBA Finals are the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion.
Introduction
The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion. The winners of the Finals are awarded the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy, which replaced the Walter A. Brown Trophy in 1983.
History of the NBA Finals
The NBA Finals is the yearly championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion. The winners of the Finals receive the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy, which replaced the Walter A. Brown Trophy in 1983.
How Many Games Are In the NBA Finals?
The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion. The winning team of the series receives the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy.
The first five games of the series are played in a 2–2–1–1–1 format (the team with home-court advantage plays games 1, 2, 5, and 7 at home), meaning that one team will have home-court advantage in games 1–2 and 5–7, while the other plays at home in games 3 and 4. Games 6 and 7 are only played if needed. The final two games of the 2014 NBA Finals were the first ever to be played in a 2–2–1–1 format.
In years when the Finals includes Christmas Day (as it did in 2013), Game 2 is commonly played on a Monday night instead of a Sunday night to avoid conflicting with NFL games which are also typically held on Sunday evenings.
Conclusion
The amount of games in the NBA Finals varies each year. The series is played in a best-of-seven format, meaning the first team to win four games wins the series. However, if the series is tied after seven games, it will go into overtime until one team wins four overtime periods. Therefore, the total amount of possible games in an NBA Finals series is 11.
