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Game Sevens: What you must know!………..NOW!

It’s come down to this: Game 7. One game to decide the 2010 NBA Finals.
Just the facts: 16 pieces of info about Game 7s


Game 7 of the NBA Finals. It’s the ultimate basketball experience. 48 minutes (or maybe five or 10 more if we’re lucky) for everything.

As basketball fans, we couldn’t ask for more, especially with the history of these two franchises and the talent of these two rosters. And of course, since we haven’t seen many Finals Game 7s in recent memory, we should savor sitting down to watch the Lakers and Celtics put it all on the line Thursday night.

Before we do, here are 16 things you may not have know about the 16 previous editions of Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

1. The Lakers and Celtics are the only franchises to have won more than one Finals Game 7. The Lakers are 3-5 (1-5 since they moved to L.A.), with four of their five losses coming at the hands of Boston, who is 7-0. Other franchises to play in more than one Finals Game 7 are the Knicks (1-3), the Pistons (0-3), the 76ers (1-1 as the Syracuse Nationals) and the Hawks (0-2 when they played in St. Louis).

2. There were five Finals Game 7s in a seven-year stretch between 1951 and 1957. Before this year, there had only been one in the last 15 years. This is just the fourth Game 7 in the 26 years since the Finals switched to the 2-3-2 format. That’s a Game 7 every 6.5 years. Before that, there was a Game 7 every 2.9 years.

3. The Western Conference won the first three Finals Game 7s. Then the East won 10 in a row. And now the West has won three straight again. The average score of Finals Game7s (by conference) has been East 98, West 96.

NBA Finals Game 7s
Year Winner Pts Loser Pts
1951 Rochester Royals 79 New York Knicks 75
1952 Minneapolis Lakers 82 New York Knicks 65
1954 Minneapolis Lakers 87 Syracuse Nationals 80
1955 Syracuse Nationals 92 Fort Wayne Pistons 91
1957 Boston Celtics 125 St. Louis Hawks 123
1960 Boston Celtics 122 St. Louis Hawks 103
1962 Boston Celtics 110 Los Angeles Lakers 107
1966 Boston Celtics 95 Los Angeles Lakers 93
1969 Boston Celtics* 108 Los Angeles Lakers 106
1970 New York Knicks 113 Los Angeles Lakers 99
1974 Boston Celtics* 102 Milwaukee Bucks 87
1978 Washington Bullets* 105 Seattle SuperSonics 99
1984 Boston Celtics 111 Los Angeles Lakers 102
1988 Los Angeles Lakers 108 Detroit Pistons 105
1994 Houston Rockets 90 New York Knicks 84
2005 San Antonio Spurs 81 Detroit Pistons 74
* Road team
1957: Double-overtime
1962: Overtime

4. The home team has won 13 of the 16 Finals Game7s. The only road winners were the 1969 Celtics (over the Lakers), the 1974 Celtics (over the Bucks), and the 1978 Bullets (over the Sonics). All three were East over West. The average score of Finals Game 7s has been Home 99, Road 95.

5. Rasheed Wallace is the only player on the current Lakers or Celtics who has played in a Finals Game 7. In fact, only 11 active players have. Wallace scored 11 points on 5-for-10 shooting and grabbed one rebound in 28 minutes in the Pistons’ 81-74 loss to the Spurs in 2005.

6. Both the Spurs and Pistons went with short rotations in Game 7 of the 2005 Finals. Only seven players for each team played more than one minute, and only six scored for the Spurs.

7. Both Celtics coach Doc Rivers and Lakers coach Phil Jackson were members of Knicks teams that played in a Game 7 of the Finals, but both missed that particular postseason with injuries. Jackson missed all of the 1969-70 season and Rivers played only the first 19 games of the 1993-94 season.

8. Twelve of the 16 Finals Game 7s have been determined by 10 points or less, and seven have been determined by four points or less. The average margin of victory is 7.3 points. The biggest blowout was the Celtics’ 122-103 win over the St. Louis Hawks in 1960.

9. Two Finals Game 7s have gone to overtime. The Celtics beat the Hawks 125-123 in double-OT in 1957, and they beat the Lakers 110-107 in overtime in 1962.

10. When Ray Allen went 0-for-13 in Game 3 of these Finals, he fell one miss short of the Finals record for most field goal attempts in a game without a make. The record is held by Chick Reiser (Baltimore, 1948) and Dennis Johnson, whose 0-for-14 performance came in Game 7 of the 1978 Finals, as the Sonics lost at home to the Bullets, 105-99.

11. There have been two triple-doubles in Game 7 of the Finals, both by Lakers. Finals MVP James Worthy had one (36 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists) in a 108-105 win over the Pistons in 1988, the only triple-double of his career. Jerry West had the other (42 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists) in a 108-106 loss to the Celtics in 1969.

12. West’s 42 points in 1969 is the record for most points in a Finals Game 7. He was the first winner of the Finals MVP award that year, and thus far has been the only winner of the award from the losing team.

13. Bill Russell holds the record for most rebounds in a Finals Game 7. He had 40 in the Celtics 110-107 overtime win over the Lakers in 1962.

14. Walt “Clyde” Frazier holds the record for most assists in a Finals Game 7. He had 19 in the Knicks’ 113-99 win over the Lakers in 1970, a game more known for Willis Reed limping onto the court at Madison Square Garden. Also scoring 36 points, Frazier was responsible for 65 percent of New York’s offense.

15. Russell has played in the most Game 7s of the Finals, and he won all five. Having retired in 1968, Russell never won the Finals MVP award, but the award was named after him in 2009.

16. Michael Jordan never played in a Finals Game 7, but he came close a few times. Five of the Bulls’ six championships were won in six games, and four of those five Game 6s were determined by four points or less.

Some of the numbers above were compiled with the help of the Elias Sports Bureau.



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Lakers-Celtics, 1985

I love WTKK, Grace and all my Boston listeners, I do. But what would you think of me if I started being “objective” about this shit just because I’m on in LA and Boston. The Lakers have been my team since I had the measles as a kid and I was reading the sports page about Jerry West and Baylor rolling the St. Louis Hawks. By the way, the year I had the measles as a 10 year old is the year the Lakers went down to the Green Funk, 110 to 107 in…..game seven.

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Phil Pheed Update-Here’s Your Headline-“Southwest seizes dozens of human heads”

Where is this investigation ‘headed’? Let’s hope they don’t lose their ‘heads’


Dozens of human heads were intercepted by a Southwest Airlines employee last week, the airline confirmed. It was a great “heads up’ by the employee who was ‘headed’ home at press-time

The heads, which were intercepted in Little Rock, Ark., were ‘heading’ over to local officials who will investigate whether or not the heads were properly obtained. It comes under the ‘heading’ of “Crminal Investigation” most likely ‘headed’ by local police authorities.

Southwest officials said the airline refused to ship the package because the ‘heading’ on the label was incorrect. “And then when we found out what was in the package, we started scratching our ‘heads.’ Then, naturally we contacted the authorities to give them a ‘headstart’ in contacting the coroner,” said airline head man  Joe Head.

NBC reporters put their ‘heads’ together and found out that the package was on its way to the ‘head’ office, in Texas of Medtronic, a Minnesota-based medical research and technology company. Not wanting to be ‘headstrong’ Little Rock police handed the package over to the county’s ‘head’ coroner.

After he gets out of the ‘head’ the coroner will investigate whether the heads were legally obtained.

“I’m ‘heading’ rapidly to the conclusion that there is a black market out there for human body parts. They must use ‘head-hunters’ to track them down for research or some other ‘wrong-headed’ reason,” The county coroner down there, Garland Headley told our ‘head’ reporter, “We just want to make sure these heads here aren’t ‘heading’ to that black market and underground trade. I mean, I know people are just ctrying to get ahead but…Jesus Christ…who by the way was played by actor Murray Head in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar. “

Head said it was his understanding that the heads were going to be used for educational purposes, maybe even the “‘Head Start’ program.
A Medtronic spokesman told NBC that JLS Consulting, ‘headquartered’ in Wynne, Ark., was the supplier of the heads in this instance. JLS had its license revoked in December 2009, grabbing ‘headlines’ at the time. The ‘head’ of their company must have looked like a deer caught in ‘headlights’ according to the Arkansas Secretary of State’s online database. Well, I guess that deer didn’t die from a ‘headshot.”.

Southwest is now ‘heading’ up educating the parties involved in the shipment of the heads on proper protocol for body-part shipments, especially on passenger flights where people are ‘headed’ all over the place, Head said. What will the ‘headstone’ on this story read? Stay ‘ahead’ of the information and keep it here.

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Show Log for Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Curt Queedy and Guy Barton from the West Virginia State Senate talked about President Obama tonight as a man having to deal with hysterical and pushy people around the BP incident. They warned that the harder you push a President, the slower he goes because he doesn’t take orders from regular people. And besides, it’s a good thing Obama didn’t order equipment from the Netherlands because…hello…that’s where Joran Van der Sloot is from and that’s all we need, the Gulf full of butchering Dutch. Also guesting tonight was Shoell Heller, a writer for Inter, an energy blog. He said the comment by the BP chairman today calling the folks of the Gulf the “small people” was meant to simply say that “they are good people and hard-working people but they just don’t matter.” Heller said the people of the Gulf should stop “whining.” “Look at us Europeans,” he said. “We’re Back in Black.”

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Tonights Show Material

06-16-10 stories and audio
CHARACTER // OPEN // CHARACTER
TV ratings: CBS squeaks past ‘Bachelorette’ Monday
*Northern Colo. Tea Party cancels speech by Iowa congressman after controversial remarks
*‘Glee’ Beats Out ‘Eclipse’ For #1 On Billboard Albums Chart
CO School Board Rejects Controversial Global Warming Petition; Will Continue Teaching Global Warming as Fact
*BP agrees to $20B fund; chairman apologizes
*BP ‘small people’ comment causes anger along Gulf
7 Crazy Celebrity Mansions
*Could the next big-screen Spider-Man be African-American?
*Trying to Cut Off Arm Was ‘Near-Death Experience’
*Obama oil spill address draws 32 million
Flight Attendant Helps Land Plane at O’Hare
*Police: Officer under review after punching incident caught on camera
Chris Klein Arrested For DUI
Dads Top Choice For This Father’s Day: Oral Sex from Mom
Apple, AT&T get record number of iPhone orders
Virginia Woof, meet Bing Clawsby: Top 10 Most Unique Pet Names
Gates, Buffett to megarich: Give it away
Obesity Can Take Toll on Sex Life
Cabbie Charged with False Imprisonment
Oprah gives magazine staff $10,000, iPad each
Ozzy Osbourne’s Genetic Code Being Mapped
Drug Abuse Admissions Up Among People Over 50
Left Over Character Bit:
Dean Wheeler: O’reilly really got hurt by the comment Rush made about ted baxter,..he was very, very hurt by it and this could very well be a crack in the conservative front…O’reilly has been quiet and introspective… I think O’reilly was blindsided… he didn’t quite know what to make of it…. it threw him emotionally at a time when the voices in the media should be one…so this spat can seriously hurt the whole conservative movement, two titans of conservative media fighting/…  this could be the end of the GOP… republicans have to take sides… pick rush or oreilly maybe… What if I said that Fox news is pussy././Limbaugh doesn’t need them..he’s firted the first warning shot..asd that they better remember who the big dog is…not Fox..Limbuigh … Or maybe its a liberal deanm who is laughing at what a little bitch ‘reilley is and he’s laughing at these conservatives throwing shit on eahc other… i like that — repubs are so petty, look at this fight, typical of the party, thats why they’ll never be in power again… the two titans are going at it… gop put all their power in oreilly and rush… Deabn comers on and gives us the perspective from the left and when I ask him what about this or that policy having to do with the left..he evades it..he doesn’t want to talk substance when it comes to the left… yes he makes it personal… we’re smarter (wont defend policy), we’re more strategic (wont mention strategy) just that they’re better

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