Where do the 2025 Pacers rank among the most random finals teams ever?

[Po pimp]

81 Rockets

If I’m not mistaken, they’re the only team to make the Finals with a losing record

 

[WhoShotCha]

In retrospect, given they made the ECF last season, it's really hard to categorize them as being "random". They ran it back with the same playoff rotation and they made it one step further this time around.

Surprising, sure, but not random.

This.

 

[Piff Huxtable]

I don't get the premise when the Mavs last year and the Heat the year before were more shocking

 

[Illin Degenerate]

27-8 over their last 35 games, 63.2 win pace or over a longer stretch 53-22 over their last 75 games, 57.9 win pace. for the overall season the pacers were 13th in srs and 12th in net rating, by those metrics they would probably be the worst team to win an nba title and with okc having arguable goat metrics this would be the biggest upset in finals history.

ppl will use whichever of the above data to say the result and competitiveness of the finals should have been expected. im inclined to look at the 58 and 63 win pace and say they have a legit shot to pull off the upset.

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

Idk how it’s random werent they in the ECF last season