1964-65 NBA SEASON

'The 1964-65 NBA Season' was the 19th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Boston Celtics winning their 7th straight NBA Championship, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals.

Contents

Season recap

Preseason

Regular Season

Playoffs

East

West

Finals

Notable Occurrences

Final standings

Eastern Division

Western Division

1964-65 NBA Stats Leaders

NBA awards

See also

Season recap

Preseason

The season marked real change for the league. NBA Commissioner Maurice Podoloff, who had been there since the BAA in 1946, retired. Walter Kennedy took over his position. Bob Cousy, the Boston Celtic passing /dribbling great, had retired also. The Syracuse Nationals were now gone also. Their star, Dolph Schayes, now coached the Philadelphia 76ers. The old Philadelphia Warriors had moved to San Francisco the year before, creating a vacancy that had to be refilled. The Syracuse franchise ended their own rich history by moving to replace the Warriors.
The new arrangement had thrown the Cincinnati Royals into the East Division to cover for the departed Warriors. Meanwhile, Chicago Zephyrs's team had left town and become the new Baltimore Bullets. The Bullets remained in the West, curiously, while Cincinnati was still in the East.

Regular Season

Red Auerbach's loaded Boston Celtics won 62 of 80 games in the nine team league. The balanced Celts had seven ten-point scorers plus the defense and