How Lakers can be first team in NBA history to blow a 3-0 series lead in embarrassing collapse
With just two losses, Los Angeles would make NBA history in all the wrong ways.
How Lakers can be first team in NBA history to blow a 3-0 series lead in embarrassing collapse originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers are inching closer to making NBA history.
For the Rockets, the possibility would be a positive thing — a massive success for Ime Udoka, his players and the franchise. But for the Lakers, it would be borderline embarrassing. After taking a 3-0 series lead in the teams' first-round matchup, which has included absences for Kevin Durant, Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, the Lakers have allowed the Rockets to stay alive and force a Game 6.
Should Houston pull out a third-straight win on Friday night, the series will come down to a decisive Game 7 on Sunday. Despite Reaves' return to the floor in Game 5 and Durant's continued absence for Houston, a loss on Friday would put the Lakers on the cusp of blowing a 3-0 series lead — and if Los Angeles falls in both Game 6 and Game 7, it would make new league history. Here's what to know about the history of blown 3-0 series leads in the NBA Playoffs all-time.
MORE: The full history of blown 3-1 leads in the NBA Playoffs How many NBA teams have come back from down 3-0 leads? Zero, zilch, nada. The NBA has been around for 80 seasons now, and since 2003, every playoff round has been best-of-seven.
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