Keidel: NBA Finals, With Legacies In Limbo

By Jason Keidel
Perhaps you’ve heard the historical parallels, rare as they are.
We see comets more often than two pro sports teams meeting in the finals in three consecutive seasons. In baseball, the Yankees and (NY) Giants played each other from 1921 through ’23, back when you needed five wins to bag the Fall Classic. In football, two currently forlorn franchises — the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns — played for the NFL championship between 1952 and 1954. And in the