The Celtics are 0-3 on the road, but moving to the 2nd round nonetheless. With the best record in the NBA and home-court throughout, they could theoretically go 0-12 on the road and still win the title. Has any team come close to something like this? What is the fewest number of road victories an eventually champion has had in one playoff run?|||In regular season: in 1977, the Portland Trailblazers had only a 49-33 record, including just 14-27 on the road, but in the playoffs, they kept upsetting higher-seeded teams and won the Finals versus the highly-rated Philadelphia 76ers after the Sixers already had won the first 2 games of the series at home.
Just for playoffs: I remember the 1988 Lakers basically had to keep winning at home to repeat as champs, as they were losing most of their games on the road. They went the full 7 games in their West semifinals and West Finals, as well as NBA Finals.
They had 1 road win in the 1st round versus Spurs, 1 road win in the 2nd round versus Jazz, NO road wins in West Finals versus Dallas, and 1 road win in Finals versus Detroit.
They went 3-7 on the road and something like 12-2 at home.
Some champion teams have 3 road wins in just one playoff series.|||do some research|||new york knicks????|||this year probably HEAT but all time im not sure
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