The 1962 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 1961-62 season, and was the conclusion of the 1962 NBA Playoffs. The best-of-seven series was played between the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers and the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics. This was the Celtics' 6th straight trip to the Finals, and they won the best-of-seven series in Game 7, 110-107 in overtime. It was the second (and last) time in NBA history that Game 7 of an NBA Finals had gone into overtime (the only other one being in 1957).

Series summary

Boston Celtics defeated Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3

Team rosters

Records

During the series, Lakers forward Elgin Baylor scored a Finals record 61 points in Game 5. Celtics center Bill Russell set a still-standing record for rebounds in a 7-game series with 189, and tied his own record for rebounds in a single game with 40 in Game 7.^[2]

The missed shot

In the last 5 seconds of regulation in Game 7, L.A. Laker Frank Selvy missed an open 12-footer from the baseline that would have won the series. Instead, the game went into OT the Celtics won the game and the series. For the Lakers, it would start the pattern of not winning the big games in the NBA Finals, something that lasted until 1972 when the Lakers finally won their first title in Los Angeles. The Lakers would not defeat the Celtics in the NBA Finals until 1985; they came up short against Boston in 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1984 and 2008. Besides 1985, The Lakers would beat the Celtics in the NBA Finals again in 1987 and 2010.

References

External links

• NBA History

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