1950 NBA Finals

1950 basketball championship series August 2023 NBA 1950 Syracuse Nationals Al Cervi 2 Minneapolis Lakers John Kundla 4 April 8−23 Lakers:George Mikan (1959)Jim Pollard (1978)Vern Mikkelsen (1995)Slater Martin (1982)Nationals:Dolph Schayes (1973)Alex Hannum (1998, coach)Al Cervi (1985)Coaches:John Kundla (1995)Al Cervi (1985, player)Officials:Pat Kennedy (1959)John Nucatola (1978) Nationals defeated Knickerbockers, 2–1 Not the Western final (see text). Central finalist Lakers defeated Western finalist Packers, 2–0 The 1950 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s inaugural 1949–50 season following the merger of the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The defending 1949 BAA champions and Central Division champions Minneapolis Lakers faced the Eastern Division champion Syracuse Nationals in a best-of-seven series with Syracuse having home-court advantage.Minneapolis Lakers capture NBA crown https://www.newspapers.com/article/journal-and-courier-minneapolis-lakers-c/149774452/ 21 June 2024 Journal and Courier Associated Press 24 April 1950 19 Newspapers.com In the event, six games were played in 16 days, beginning Saturday and Sunday, April 8 and 9, in Syracuse and incorporating two subsequent Sunday games in Minneapolis. Counting a Central Division tiebreaker played on Monday, March 20, the entire postseason tournament spanned five full weeks to Sunday, April 23. The NBA was arranged in three divisions (for its first season only) and the first two rounds of the 1950 NBA playoffs generated three Division champions. With the league's best regular season record, Syracuse had earned a place in the Finals by winning the Eastern Division title on the preceding Sunday, and had been five days idle while the Central and Western champions had played a best-of-three series mid-week. In Game 1, the Lakers won on a buzzer beating shot by sub Bob "Tiger" Harrison, the first known case of a buzzer beater in the Finals. 6 ft 8 in on In Dolph Schayes of Syracuse led his team out to the finals after a 16.8 ppg average during the regular season. George Mikan, however, averaged 27.4 ppg and led the league.June 2024 Mikan would lead the Lakers past Syracuse in six games. The championship was the Lakers third professional championship in a row after winning the NBL championship in 1948 and the BAA championship in 1949. While the NBA was considered a new league at the time, it later retconned the three preceding BAA seasons as part of its own history, and thus presents the 1950 Finals as its fourth championship series.Curtis Harris How the NBA's 75th anniversary sweeps away its early history https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/21/nba-history-nbl-baa/ 21 June 2024 The Washington Post 21 January 2022NBA Season Recaps: 1946-2019 http://www.nba.com/history/nba-season-recaps/index.html NBA Media Ventures, LLC NBA.com July 24, 2019 May 3, 2020 Series summary Game Date Home team Result Road team Game 1 April 8 Syracuse Nationals 66−68 (0−1) Minneapolis Lakers Game 2 April 9 Syracuse Nationals 91−85 (1−1) Minneapolis Lakers Game 3 April 14 Minneapolis Lakers 91−77 (2−1) Syracuse Nationals Game 4 April 16 Minneapolis Lakers 77−69 (3−1) Syracuse Nationals Game 5 April 20 Syracuse Nationals 83−76 (2−3) Minneapolis Lakers Game 6 April 23 Minneapolis Lakers 110−95 (4−2) Syracuse Nationals Lakers win series 4−2 Rosters Minneapolis Lakers Minneapolis Lakers 1949–50 15 Don Carlson GF 6 0 170 Minnesota 1919–03–22 18 Arnie Ferrin GF 6 2 180 Utah 1925-07-29 20 Bud Grant F 6 3 195 Minnesota 1927–05–20 16 Bob Harrison basketball G 6 1 190 Michigan 1927–08–12 11 William Hassett Billy Hassett G 5 11 180 Notre Dame 1921-10-21 13 Anthony Jaros GF 6 3 185 Minnesota 1920–02–22 22 Slater Martin G 5 10 170 Texas 1925–10–22 99 George Mikan C 6 10 245 DePaul 1924–06–18 19 Arild Mikkelsen F 6 7 230 Hamline 1928–10–21 17 James Pollard F 6 4 185 Stanford 1922–07–09 10 Herman Schaefer GF 6 0 175 Indiana 1918–11–20 John Kundla https://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/1950-nba-finals-lakers-vs-nationals.html Syracuse Nationals Syracuse Nationals 1949–50 15 Alfred Cervi G 5 11 170 East HS (NY) 1917–02–12 11 Leroy Chollet F 6 2 190 Canisius 1925–03–05 9 Raymond Corley G 6 0 180 Georgetown 1928–01–14 7 William Gabor G 5 11 170 Syracuse 1922–05–13 10 Alexander Hannum F 6 7 210 USC 1923–07–19 14 Andrew Levane G 6 2 190 St. John's 1920–04–11 5 John Macknowski GF 6 0 180 Seton Hall 1923–01–07 13 Edward Peterson Ed Peterson C 6 9 220 Cornell 1924–06–27 6 George Ratkovicz f 6 6 220 Lindblom Academy (IL) 1922-11-13 4 Adolph Schayes FC 6 8 220 NYU 1928–05–19 8 Paul Seymour basketball G 6 1 180 Toledo 1928-01-30 Alfred Cervi https://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/1950-nba-finals-lakers-vs-nationals.html Box scores #eee April 8 Boxscore Minneapolis Lakers 68 Syracuse Nationals 66 16–10 18–20 17–23 17–13 George Mikan 37 Dolph Schayes 19 State Fair Coliseum, Geddes, New York 7,552 Minneapolis leads series, 1–0 Bob Harrison hits the game-winning shot from 40 feet at the buzzer. April 9 Boxscore Minneapolis Lakers 85 Syracuse Nationals 91 17–16 14–28 22–23 32–24 George Mikan 32 George Ratkovicz 17 State Fair Coliseum, Geddes, New York 8,280 Series tied, 1–1 #eee April 14 Boxscore Syracuse Nationals 77 Minneapolis Lakers 91 15–21 24–21 16–24 22–25 Johnny Macknowski 25 Paul Seymour 5 George Mikan 28 George Mikan 8 St. Paul Auditorium, Saint Paul, Minnesota 10,288 Minneapolis leads series, 2–1 April 16 Boxscore Syracuse Nationals 69 Minneapolis Lakers 77 22–27 16–11 19–24 12–15 Schayes, Hannum 18 each Bill Gabor 6 George Mikan 28 Jim Pollard 4 St. Paul Auditorium, Saint Paul, Minnesota 10,512 Minneapolis leads series, 3–1 #eee April 20 Boxscore Minneapolis Lakers 76 Syracuse Nationals 83 16–14 8–24 19–23 33–22 George Mikan 28 Dolph Schayes 19 State Fair Coliseum, Geddes, New York 9,024 Minneapolis leads series, 3–2 April 23 Boxscore Syracuse Nationals 95 Minneapolis Lakers 110 18–25 21–26 17–30 39–29 Dolph Schayes 23 Johnny Macknowski 5 George Mikan 40 Jim Pollard 10 Minneapolis Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota 9,812 Jim Biersdorf, John Nucatola Minneapolis wins series, 4–2 References 25em "1949–50 NBA Season Summary". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2015-03-03.   Select "Previous Season" from the heading for 1948–49 BAA, and so on. Select "Finals" from League Playoffs for the daily schedule of the final series, and so on. External links 1950 Finals at NBA.com 1950 NBA Playoffs at Basketball-Reference.com Category:NBA Finals Finals NBA Finals NBA Finals NBA Finals NBA Finals Category:1950s in Minneapolis NBA Finals Category:History of Onondaga County, New York Category:Basketball competitions in Minneapolis Category:Basketball competitions in Syracuse, New York