1951–52 New York Knicks season
sports season
The 1951–52 New York Knickerbockers season was the sixth season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Knickerbockers finished third in the Eastern Division with a 37–29 record, and advanced to the NBA Playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.
In the first round of the Eastern Division playoffs, the Knickerbockers defeated the Boston Celtics in a best-of-three series, two games to one, to move on to the Eastern Division finals. New York won 3–1 in a best-of-five series with the Syracuse Nationals to reach its second straight NBA Finals. In the Finals, the Knickerbockers lost to the Minneapolis Lakers in seven games. The Knickerbockers became the first NBA team to erase a 3–0 deficit in a best-of-seven series and force a deciding game 7.
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