The 1952 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the
1952 NBA Playoffs
The 1952 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1951–52 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Minneapolis Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion New York ...
, which concluded the
National Basketball Association
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(NBA)'s
1951–52 season. The Western Division champion
Minneapolis Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers franchise has a long and storied history, predating the formation of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Founded in 1947, the Lakers are one of the NBA's most famous and successful franchises. As of summer 2012, th ...
faced the Eastern Division champion
New York Knicks in a best-of-seven series with Minneapolis having home-court advantage.
Minneapolis won game one and the teams thereafter alternated victories, Minneapolis winning the decisive game by a 17-point margin at home on Friday, April 25.
All but Game 7 were played in the teams' secondary arenas: the Lakers played at the
Saint Paul Auditorium, while the
Barnum circus bumped the Knicks from Madison Square Garden to the
69th Regiment Armory
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The 69th Regiment Armory is a historic National Guard armory building located at 68 Lexington Avenue between East 25th and 26th Streets in the Rose Hill section of Manhattan, New York City. The building began construction in 1904 an ...
.
The seven games were played in fourteen days, beginning Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13, in Minneapolis/St. Paul and returning to Minneapolis/St. Paul for games five and seven on the following Saturday and Friday. Meanwhile, three Wednesday or Friday games were played in New York City. The entire postseason tournament spanned 39 days in which Minneapolis played 13 games and New York 14.
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Series summary
''Lakers win series 4–3''
Team rosters
Minneapolis Lakers
New York Knicks
References
External links
1952 Finals
at NBA.com
at Basketball-Reference.com
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Rose Hill, Manhattan