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Tournament details | |
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Dates | April 19–May 31, 1983 |
Season | 1982–83 |
Teams | 12 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Philadelphia 76ers (3rd title) |
Runner-up | Los Angeles Lakers |
Semifinalists | |
The 1983 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1982–83 season. This was the final postseason using the 12-team format and this is the final postseason held of best of 3 series in first round, before the NBA expanded the postseason to 16 teams and first round expanded of best of 5 series the next season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia 76ers defeating the defending NBA champion and Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals. Moses Malone was named NBA Finals MVP.
Malone made a famous prediction about the Sixers' chances prior to the playoffs, saying "Fo', fo', fo'" – predicting the number of games the Sixers would need to win each of the three series they would play on the way to a championship. They nearly accomplished this prediction of a sweep of all three rounds, only losing one game (to Milwaukee in the Eastern Conference Finals) en route to the championship. The Sixers set a record for highest winning percentage in the playoffs that was not broken until the Lakers went 15–1 in 2001. The Lakers' mark, however, came after the expansion to the current 16-team, four-round playoff format, which was first implemented in the 1984 playoffs, while the Sixers avoided the first round by virtue of their top seeding.
It was the third time in four years that the Lakers and 76ers had met in the NBA Finals, with the Lakers winning the previous two series.
After missing the playoffs the previous year, the Blazers began a string of 21 straight playoff appearances in 1983 lasting until 2003. They made the playoffs 25 out of 26 years from their title-winning season of 1977–2003. The record was just one season shy of the 22-year playoff run set by the Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers from 1950–1971.
The Celtics were swept out of the playoffs for the first time in team history, losing 4–0 to the Bucks in the second round.
This was the Spurs' last appearance in the Conference Finals until 1995. However, for players such as George Gervin and Artis Gilmore, the 6-game loss to the Lakers was the last chance they got at reaching the NBA Finals, let alone an NBA Championship (Gilmore did return to the conference finals with the Celtics in 1988, but played sparingly).
This was the only season of the 12-team playoff bracket in which all four division champions advanced to the conference finals.
Bracket
First Round | Conference Semifinals | Conference Finals | NBA Finals | ||||||||||||||||
E1 | Philadelphia* | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
E4 | New Jersey | 0 | E5 | New York | 0 | ||||||||||||||
E5 | New York | 2 | Eastern Conference | E1 | Philadelphia* | 4 | |||||||||||||
E2 | Milwaukee* | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
E3 | Boston | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
E3 | Boston | 2 | E2 | Milwaukee* | 4 | ||||||||||||||
E6 | Atlanta | 1 | E1 | Philadelphia* | 4 | ||||||||||||||
W1 | Los Angeles* | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
W1 | Los Angeles* | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
W4 | Seattle | 0 | W5 | Portland | 1 | ||||||||||||||
W5 | Portland | 2 | Western Conference | W1 | Los Angeles* | 4 | |||||||||||||
W2 | San Antonio* | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
W6 | Denver | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
W3 | Phoenix | 1 | W2 | San Antonio* | 4 | ||||||||||||||
W6 | Denver | 2 |
- * Division winner
- Bold Series winner
- Italic Team with home-court advantage
First round
Eastern Conference first round
(3) Boston Celtics vs. (6) Atlanta Hawks
April 19
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Atlanta Hawks 95, Boston Celtics 103 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 22–22, 23–26, 25–24, 25–31 | ||
Pts: Dan Roundfield 24 Rebs: Dan Roundfield 20 Asts: Johnny Davis 11 |
Pts: Larry Bird 26 Rebs: Robert Parish 16 Asts: Tiny Archibald 11 | |
Boston leads series, 1–0 |
April 22
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Boston Celtics 93, Atlanta Hawks 95 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 20–28, 22–27, 24–14, 27–26 | ||
Pts: Robert Parish 17 Rebs: Larry Bird 16 Asts: Larry Bird 9 |
Pts: Dan Roundfield 19 Rebs: Tree Rollins 14 Asts: Johnny Davis 14 | |
Series tied, 1–1 |
April 24
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Atlanta Hawks 79, Boston Celtics 98 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 23–32, 22–27, 17–19, 17–20 | ||
Pts: Tree Rollins 18 Rebs: Dan Roundfield 10 Asts: three players 3 each |
Pts: Larry Bird 26 Rebs: Robert Parish 11 Asts: Larry Bird 9 | |
Boston wins series, 2–1 |
- In the decisive Game 3, Hawks center Tree Rollins and Celtics guard Danny Ainge started a melee on the Boston Garden floor in which Rollins bit Ainge's finger.
Boston won 5–1 in the regular-season series |
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This was the seventh playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning five of the first six meetings.
Boston leads 5–1 in all-time playoff series |
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(4) New Jersey Nets vs. (5) New York Knicks
April 20
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New York Knicks 118, New Jersey Nets 107 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 35–27, 23–23, 31–26, 29–31 | ||
Pts: Bernard King 40 Rebs: Marvin Webster 11 Asts: Rory Sparrow 7 |
Pts: Albert King 17 Rebs: Buck Williams 13 Asts: Cook, Birdsong 6 each | |
New York leads series, 1–0 |
Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey
Attendance: 15,672 Referees: Jake Madden, Jess Kersey, Joe Crawford |
April 21
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New Jersey Nets 99, New York Knicks 105 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 23–32, 16–30, 31–18, 29–25 | ||
Pts: Albert King 25 Rebs: Buck Williams 10 Asts: Foots Walker 6 |
Pts: Truck Robinson 22 Rebs: Truck Robinson 13 Asts: Paul Westphal 7 | |
New York wins series, 2–0 |
New Jersey won 4–2 in the regular-season series | ||||||
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This was the first playoff meeting between the Nets and the Knicks.[2]
Western Conference first round
(3) Phoenix Suns vs. (6) Denver Nuggets
April 19
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Denver Nuggets 108, Phoenix Suns 121 | ||
Scoring by quarter: 32–23, 24–39, 21–28, 31–31 | ||
Pts: Kiki VanDeWeghe 32 Rebs: T. R. Dunn 12 Asts: English, Evans 4 each |
Pts: Dennis Johnson 28 Rebs: Dennis Johnson 12 Asts: Dennis Johnson 8 | |
Phoenix leads series, 1–0 |
April 21
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