Since one year after the award was first awarded in 1956, only five teams have ever won an NBA Championship without a player who won or would win a regular-season MVP award.
Those teams:
1975 Golden State Warriors- Ric Barry got close, but never won one
1979 Seattle SuperSonics (RIP)- Dennis Johnson was the Finals MVP, and I [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 26, 2009
Stat of the Month: Stars win Championships Edition
July 24, 2009
John Hollinger and the perils of fatally flawed analysis
Let me clear this up off the bat: I am a big Hollinger fan (for the most part). That said, I have had some more serious problems with his work as he has upped his column load- it appears that he seems to be writing more “You see this and think _____, but that’s not [...]
