Every year, it's one of the most commonly searched questions of the NBA Playoffs: How often does a team defy their own NBA odds and come back from an 0-2 playoff series deficit?
I was frustrated by the lack of comprehensive answers available, so I combed through 25 years of playoff box scores to make a complete and accurate modern list.'
The results – which I've assembled in the chart just below – are quite interesting.'
Many of us have committed to memory a handful of prominent examples of teams that went down 0-2, only to come back and win the series. However, what seems to happen quite a bit more often is that Team B falls behind 0-2, then evens the series with Team A at 2-2 – only to quickly lose the series in six games.'