Here are some facts and figures in NBA Finals history.

• The team with the home-court advantage in the NBA Finals has taken the best-of-seven series 46 times and lost 17 for a winning clip of .730.
  
  In 20 of the last 26 Finals, the “home advantageous” unit has emerged triumphant. The only exceptions during the stretch are the 1985 Los Angeles Lakers (4-2 over the Boston Celtics), 1993 Chicago Bulls (4-2 over the Phoenix Suns), 1995 Houston Rockets (4-0 over the Orlando Magic), 1998 Chicago Bulls (4-2 over the Utah Jazz, 2004 Detroit Pistons (4-1 over the LA Lakers) and 2006 Miami Heat (4-2 over the Dallas Mavericks).
  
  
• The 2-3-2 (home-road-home) format has been employed 29 times during the NBA Finals in the league’s 63 previous seasons – 1949, 1953, 1954, 1055 and from 1985 to 2009.
  
  Under the aforementioned scheme, there have been only seven 3-0 sweeps in the three middle games – three by the home squad (1955 Fort Wayne Pistons, 2004 Detroit Pistons and 2006 Miami Heat) and four by the road squad (1953 Minneapolis Lakers, 1990 Detroit Pistons, 1991 Chicago Bulls and 2001 LA Lakers).
  
  
• Only three teams have rallied from a 0-2 deficit to win a best-of-seven championship series. They are the 1969 Boston Celtics (4-3 over the LA Lakers), 1977 Portland Trail Blazers (4-2 over the Philadelphia 76ers) and Miami Heat (4-2 over the Dallas Mavericks). None of the three teams enjoyed home-court advantage.
  
  
• No team in NBA Finals history has ever overcome a deficit of 3-1 or 3-0 to capture the championship series.
  
  
• Only once in a title series has a team won three consecutive games after being down three games to none.
  
  During the 1951 NBA Finals, the title-bound Rochester Royals (the predecessors of the Sacramento Kings) moved ahead, 3-0, against the New York Knicks. The Knicks, though, took the fourth, fifth and sixth games to force a decisive Game 7 in Rochester, where the Royals nailed the crown.
  
  
• In 1955, in the inaugural season of the 24-second shot clock rule, the Syracuse Nationals defeated the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Pistons in a seven-game series that saw the home team win each contest.
  
  It marked the first and only time that has happened in NBA Finals history. Syracuse took the first two and last two games while Fort Wayne grabbed the three middle contests.