1986 NBA Playoffs
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The 1986 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1985-86 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Conference champion Houston Rockets, four games to two, in the NBA Finals. The Celtics won their 16th (and as of 2006, most recent) NBA championship. Larry Bird was awarded his second NBA Finals MVP trophy.
This was the second NBA Finals meeting between the Celtics and Rockets; the teams also met in the 1981 series, with the same result. It was the third of four consecutive Eastern Conference championships for the Celtics, who won an impressive 67 games that year, and lost just one game in the regular season at home out of 41 played. The Rockets, meanwhile had won just their second conference title in franchise history.
Second-year player Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls put on an ageless performance in game two of the Bulls' first-round series against the Celtics, scoring 63 points in an overtime loss. Jordan averaged 43.7 points per game in the series, but was unable to prevent the Bulls from being swept by the more experienced, more talented Celtics team. The Bulls set a dubious record by posting the worst record for a playoff-qualifying team, going just 30-52 during the season
The 1986 playoffs marked the third time in four years that the Milwaukee Bucks advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, but it would be their last appearance in the series until 2001.
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| First round | Conf. Semifinals | Conf. Finals | NBA Finals | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | L.A. Lakers | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | San Antonio | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | L.A. Lakers | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Dallas | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Dallas | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Utah | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | L.A. Lakers | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Western Conference | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Houston | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Denver | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Portland | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Denver | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Houston | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Houston | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sacramento | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| W2 | Houston | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| E1 | Boston | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Boston | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Chicago | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Boston | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Atlanta | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Atlanta | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Detroit | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Boston | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Eastern Conference | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Milwaukee | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Philadelphia | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Washington | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Philadelphia | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Milwaukee | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Milwaukee | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | New Jersey | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
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