Golden State Warriors reach a 116-year-old basketball record in Game 6 / News - Basketnews.com

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The Golden State Warriors NBA title was marked with a special achievement that hadn't been reached before.

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During Game 6 of the NBA Finals, the Warriors went from trailing 22-16 with 2:32 remaining in the first quarter to leading 37-22 in the second. The Boston Celtics did not score a point until the 9:59 mark of the second quarter.

The 21-0 run by the Warriors was the largest in NBA Finals history. The previous record belonged to the Warriors themselves who went on a 20-0 run in the 2019 NBA Finals against the Toronto Raptors.

The story gets even more interesting. According to Reddit user u//TringlePringle and his research, the 21-0 run is the joint-largest scoring run in a championship series in the history of professional basketball, at least in the United States of America, and the only other team to achieve it did so in 1905-06.

That year, the championship series of the Philadelphia League was played between the De Neri Downtowners and the Manayunk Yunkers. De Neri led the series 1-0 in a best-of-three series, having won the first game 24-18.

Game 2 of the series started with a 21-0 run by the De Neri team in the first half. The scoring drought by the Yunkers was stopped with a free throw but the score was still 28-4 at halftime. The Downtowners went on to take Game 2 and the series and won the 1905-06 Philadelphia League.

De Neri's star Joe Fogarty went on to become the first player in the history of the sport to score 10,000+ points, and his 10,194 career points stood as an all-time record from his retirement in 1920 until George Mikan topped it late in the 1952-53 NBA season.

The period of 33 years between Fogarty's retirement and the time his record was broken is the same length of time from current record-holder Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's retirement to the present day.

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