1951 NBA Finals

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The 1951 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1951 NBA playoffs, which concluded the National Basketball Association 1950–51 season. It featured an all-New York matchup Western Division champion Rochester Royals faced the Eastern Division champion New York Knickerbockers in a best-of-seven series with Rochester having home-court advantage. This was the only time the NBA Finals ever featured two teams from the same state. Rochester won the first three games, two at home, but New York won the next three, two at home. It was the first BAA or NBA Finals (spanning 1947 to 1951) that extended to a seventh-game conclusion, a 4-point win by Rochester at home on Saturday, April 21. The seven games were played in fifteen days, beginning Saturday and Sunday, April 7 and 8, in Rochester and incorporating one game in Rochester on each following weekend. Three Wednesday or Friday games were played in New York City. The entire postseason tournament spanned 33 days in which both...

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