1965 NBA Playoffs
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The 1965 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1964-1965 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers, four games to one in the NBA Finals.
The Celtics won their seventh consecutive, and eighth overall, NBA championship, and handed the Lakers their fourth straight Finals defeat in the process. The Lakers-Celtics rivalry was dominated by Boston in the 1960s, but then, the Celtics dominated the entire league in that decade.
The 1965 playoffs marked the first postseason appearance for the Baltimore Bullets, who had begun play in the 1961-62 season as the Chicago Packers. Their first-round defeat of the St. Louis Hawks was their first playoff series win, obviously.
| Division Semifinals | Division Finals | NBA Finals | |||||||||||
| 1 | L.A. Lakers | 4 | |||||||||||
| Western Division | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Baltimore | 2 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Baltimore | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2 | St. Louis | 1 | |||||||||||
| W1 | L.A. Lakers | 1 | |||||||||||
| E1 | Boston | 4 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Boston | 4 | |||||||||||
| Eastern Division | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Philadelphia | 3 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Philadelphia | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Cincinnati | 1 | |||||||||||
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