the last time the rockets were in the finals was 1959.
the last time the rockets were in the finals was 1959.
when is the last time the rockets were in the finals?
1959
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houston's playoff run began by drawing the defending nba champion los angeles lakers and magic johnson in the first round. the rockets upset los angeles, two games to one, with the rockets winning both games in los angeles. the western conference semifinals matchup featured the rockets against the spurs and multi-year scoring champion george gervin in a texas shootout. the rockets would win the series in seven games behind strong contributions from murphy and reid, including murphy's career playoff high of 42 points in the climactic game 7. this set up an unlikely conference finals matchup with kansas city, being that both teams finished the regular season with identical losing records, together compiling just 80 total victories of 164 games played. the kings, led by otis birdsong, scott wedman, and phil ford fell to the rockets in five games, and the rockets would break into the nba finals for the first time, the first of four in franchise history. it would be the only time two conference finalists in the playoffs both had losing records, and the second and last time to date a team with a losing record made it all the way to the finals round (the first being the 1959 minneapolis lakers).
1981 nba finals