I've heard someone saying something like that during the Knicks/Boston game, that no team in NBA history ever came back after being 0-3? Yes, it's hard, but no team ever made it? I was watching hockey today and the announcer said it happened 4 times in hockey...
Games with low scoring involved, such as Hockey, luck is a huge factor. Games with so much scoring involved, like basketball, luck is often negated. In Hockey, one fluke shot could be the deciding factor. In basketball, unless the game is close, a fluke shot will almost never make much difference if you're playing against a good team. In a game of 7, every game matters, you could take or lose a home court advantage with just one loss. When the sport is low scoring, such as Hockey, the window of opportunity to take a win is much bigger than basketball.
^ I think you're over-analyzing, haha. To the OP: I don't think a team has ever done it, in any fashion.
The hockey analysis was dead on. As for the NBA, do you think that a team who couldn't win a game the first three times could pull off a sweep?
I think the most likely scenario for something like this would be if one team's best player was suspended/injured for at least most of the first three games and then came back at full strength for the last four. Teams have come back to force a Game 7 at least a couple times after falling behind 0-3 (e.g., Mavs/Blazers 2003). Once you're in that situation, it's pretty much a toss up, so it could certainly happen.
Baseball too - I may be wrong, but I think the Red Sox were the first team to do it that year they finally beat the Yankees.
I think it will eventually happen in the NBA when the team up 3-0 has an injury that changes everything.
It's probably tough because once a team goes down 0-3 they have checked out mentally. Also the teams that usually end up down 0-3 are severe underdogs.
i remember the commentators talking about it. They claimed it never happened in the NBA, but said it had happened in other sports, one mentioned was hockey.
Didn't the Red Sox come back and beat NYY in the early 2000s? That was the first year they broke Babe's curse I think.
Actually it was spot on. In Hockey, you may have heard about teams "riding a hot goaltender" Doesn't happen like that in the NBA, unless you count team chemistry.
Everyone covered hockey pretty well. I think for baseball its possible because the difference in quality of the teams is usually minimal. Only 4 teams per league and the win difference is usually < 15 games (in 162 games) in any series. Whereas in basketball, you have several more teams and the win difference in a series can be huge. The team likely to fall in a 0-3 hole is the 7/8 seed and they've proven over just 82 games that they're anywhere from 15-25 wins worse than their opponent. If I had to guess I'd assume first round upsets occur far less in basketball.
