1992–93 NBA season
The 1992–93 NBA season was the 47th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Chicago Bulls winning their third-straight NBA Championship, beating the Phoenix Suns 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals.
Notable occurrences
- The 1993 NBA All-Star Game was played at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, with the West defeating the East 135–132 in overtime. Much to delight of the local fans, Karl Malone and John Stockton of the Utah Jazz were named co-MVPs of the game.
- The Phoenix Suns played their first season at America West Arena.
- The San Antonio Spurs played their final season in the HemisFair Arena.
- The Charlotte Hornets became the first of the four late-1980s expansion franchises to win a playoff series on Alonzo Mourning's 20-foot jumper at the buzzer in Game 4 of their first round playoff series against the Boston Celtics.
- Michael Jordan scored his 20,000th career point and tied Wilt Chamberlain's record of seven scoring titles.
- In Game 3 of the NBA Finals, the Suns defeated the Bulls in triple overtime, 129–121. This marked the second time a Finals game lasted three overtimes, along with Game 5 of the 1976 Finals, which also involved the Suns. Coincidentally, in the 1976 game, Paul Westphal played for the Suns, and in the 1993 game, he coached the Suns.
- Michael Jordan scored 40 or more points in 4 consecutive games of the NBA Finals, setting a record, and averaged an NBA Finals record 41.0 points per game for the series.
- The Chicago Bulls defeated the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Finals to become the first team in almost 30 years to win three consecutive championships.
- New Jersey Nets guard Dražen Petrović was killed in an automobile accident in Munich, Germany on June 7. Almost two months later, on July 27, Boston Celtics guard Reggie Lewis died of a heart attack during practice. Both were later honored by their respective teams by retiring their numbers, and Petrovic would be eventually inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- The Dallas Mavericks became the third team to lose 70 games in a season, after the 1972–73 Philadelphia 76ers and the 1986–87 Los Angeles Clippers, they finished 11–71. They would later be joined by the 1997–98 Denver Nuggets, the 2009–10 New Jersey Nets and the 2015-16 Philadelphia 76ers.
- During the regular season, three backboards were broken. Two were done by Orlando's Shaquille O'Neal, once against Phoenix where he dunked the ball so hard the entire goal collapsed and once against New Jersey when he pulled the entire backboard off of the goal. The other was by New Jersey's Chris Morris, who dunked with such force during a game against Chicago that the backboard glass shattered.[1] This led the league to provide stronger shatterproof backboards. However, every team is still required to have a spare backboard in their home arenas just in case.
Standings
By division
- Eastern Conference
- Western Conference
By conference
Notes
- z – Clinched home court advantage for the entire playoffs
- c – Clinched home court advantage for the conference playoffs
- y – Clinched division title
- x – Clinched playoff spot
Playoffs
.jpg) A ticket for Game 4 of the 1993 Western Conference Finals between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Phoenix Suns. Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in its conference, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. The division champions are marked by an asterisk. Home court advantage does not necessarily belong to the higher-seeded team, but instead the team with the better regular season record; teams enjoying the home advantage are shown in italics.
| First Round
| | | Conference Semifinals
| | | Conference Finals
| | | NBA Finals
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1
| Phoenix
| 3
| | | | 8
| L.A. Lakers
| 2
| | | | 1
| Phoenix
| 4
| | |
| | | 5
| San Antonio
| 2
| | | 4
| Portland
| 1
| | | | | 5
| San Antonio
| 3
| | | | 1
| Phoenix
| 4
| | | Western Conference
| | | 3
| Seattle
| 3
| | | 3
| Seattle
| 3
| | | | | | 6
| Utah
| 2
| | | | 3
| Seattle
| 4
| | |
| | | 2
| Houston
| 3
| | | 2
| Houston
| 3
| | | | | 7
| L.A. Clippers
| 2
| | | | W1
| Phoenix
| 2
| | |
| | | E2
| Chicago
| 4
| | | 1
| New York
| 3
| | | | | | | 8
| Indiana
| 1
| | | | 1
| New York
| 4
| | |
| | | 5
| Charlotte
| 1
| | | 4
| Boston
| 1
| | | | | 5
| Charlotte
| 3
| | | | 1
| New York
| 2
| | | Eastern Conference
| | | 2
| Chicago
| 4
| | | 3
| Cleveland
| 3
| | | | | | 6
| New Jersey
| 2
| | | | 3
| Cleveland
| 0
| | |
| | | 2
| Chicago
| 4
| | | 2
| Chicago
| 3
| | | | | 7
| Atlanta
| 0
| | | |
Statistics leaders
NBA awards
Yearly awards
Note: All information on this page was obtained from the History section at NBA.com
Player of the week
The following players were named NBA Player of the Week.
Player of the month
The following players were named NBA Player of the Month.
Rookie of the month
The following players were named NBA Rookie of the Month.
Coach of the month
The following coaches were named NBA Coach of the Month.
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