In Game Five of that series, as the 76ers went to victory and the NBA Finals, Philadelphia fans chanted " Boston is dead!

Nonetheless, their 12 – 1 playoff record is the second-best in league history after the 2000 – 2001 Lakers, who went 15 – 1 en route to the NBA Title, coincidentally beating the 76ers in the Finals ( after suffering their only defeat that postseason in Game 1 ).

In total, the 76ers went 56 – 26 to clinch their first Atlantic Division title since 1989 – 90, and were top seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs.

The Lakers scored the first five points of the overtime period, but the 76ers went on a 13 – 2 run to end the game, winning by a 107 – 101 score.

The 76ers went into the 2001 – 02 season with high expectations, but were able to produce only a 43 – 39 record, sixth in the Eastern Conference.

That team went on to become the Philadelphia 76ers.

The 76ers ' 12 – 1 record in the playoffs became the second-most-dominant playoff run in NBA history ( the 2001 Lakers went 15 – 1 in the extended four-round playoff set-up ).

He did, however, win an NBA championship ring, as the Lakers went on to beat the Philadelphia 76ers in that season's NBA Finals.

He went on to play for the NBA's Miami Heat, the Boston Celtics, the Philadelphia 76ers, the San Antonio Spurs and the CBA's Rockford Lightning, and also played abroad in France.

From there, Lawler went on to work in Philadelphia, where he broadcast games for the Flyers of the National Hockey League, the 76ers of the National Basketball Association, the Phillies of Major League Baseball, Big 5 college basketball, and Temple college football.

Randolph went undrafted in the 2005 NBA Draft, but on August 5, 2005, was signed to a free-agent contract with the Philadelphia 76ers.

" The Bullets won the Eastern Conference against the Atlantic Division Champion Philadelphia 76ers, and went on to beat the Western Conference Champion Seattle SuperSonics four games to three for the 1978 NBA title.

On April 17, 2002, shortly after calling a game between the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on TNT, both Albert and color analyst Mike Fratello were injured in a limo accident in Trenton, New Jersey.

The 76ers didn't quite fulfill Malone's prediction, as their run was actually " fo ', fi ', fo " (" four, five, four ")-- a loss to the Bucks in game four of the Eastern finals being the only blemish on their playoff run.

Because of a seemingly meaningless loss to the lowly Chicago Bulls in the regular season finale ( both the Sixers and the Lakers finished with identical 56 – 26 records, but Los Angeles was awarded a higher seed based on tiebreakers ), the 76ers had to open a series on the road for the first time in the 2001 playoffs.

In the second round, the Detroit Pistons ended Philadelphia's playoff run in a frustrating six-game series that saw the 76ers lose twice in overtime, and once on a last-second shot in regulation.

Former Washington Wizards coach Eddie Jordan was introduced as the 76ers ' new coach on June 1, 2009.

Hours after the 76ers ' last game at Orlando on April 14, the team fired Jordan after only one season.

Attributed to their lack of a true go-to-scorer, the 76ers lost hold of the top three seed and division championship that they held for most of the season, by going on the losing steak.

The 76ers also had an alternate logo with the ' 76 ' wordmark inside the silhouette of the Liberty Bell with ' Philadelphia ' on top.

Rose suffered a new injury when he tore his ACL during the 4th quarter of the first playoff game on April 28, 2012 against the Philadelphia 76ers and missed the rest of the series.

Just two nights later the Wolves would get their first win, beating the Philadelphia 76ers at home 125 – 118 on November 10.

Prior to a game against the Philadelphia 76ers on March 24, 2012, head coach Gregg Popovich decided to give Duncan a night off by listing him on the official scorecard as ' DNP-OLD ', poking fun at his 36-year old body.

That overtime loss on March 26 would prove to be the last game for the Syracuse Nationals, as investors Irv Kosloff and Ike Richman purchased the team from Danny Biasone moving the team to Philadelphia to become the 76ers, filling the void left by the Warriors.

Melchionni was a key reserve on what is, statistically speaking, the greatest 76ers team ever, the NBA Champions led by Wilt Chamberlain, Luke Jackson, Hal Greer, Wali Jones, and Chet Walker in 1967.

He once lost a bet on the Philadelphia 76ers, and he was forced to eat a corn dog when he lost.

In preseason play the Colonels defeated the Chicago Bulls 95-86 at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 1, 1975 ; lost to the New York Knicks in Landover, Maryland at the Capital Centre 107-102 on October 4, 1975 ; defeated the Detroit Pistons 114-113 on October 5, 1975 in Cincinnati ; defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 96-91 in Freedom Hall on October 10, 1975 ; lost an overtime game to the Detroit Pistons in Detroit on October 12, 1975, 115-107 ; defeated the Buffalo Braves 120-116 in Freedom Hall on October 14, 1975 ; defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 112-110 in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 17, 1975 ; and won another ABA vs. NBA exhibition on October 19, 1975 with a 121-111 victory over the Washington Bullets in Lexington, Kentucky.

** The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109 – 107 to win the National Basketball Association finals four games to two.

In the playoffs, the Magic beat the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the playoffs and then the defending champions, the Boston Celtics, in the Eastern Conference semifinals, behind assistant coach Patrick Ewing's guarantee that they would win Game 7 of that series.

In the 1981 Eastern Conference Finals, the 76ers opened a 3 – 1 series lead over the Celtics only to see Boston come back and win the series in seven games.

Malone was named League MVP, and when reporters asked how the playoffs would run, he answered, " four, four, four "— in other words, saying that the 76ers needed to win four games in each of the 3 rounds.

The media misinterpreted this and assumed Moses was predicting that the 76ers would sweep all three rounds to win the title, with the minimum 12 games.

Starting with the 1990 – 91 season, and ending with the 1995 – 96 season, the 76ers had the dubious distinction of seeing their win total decrease each year.

The Lakers only loss in the postseason comes in Game 1 of the Finals, which the 76ers win in overtime.

Brown is also the only NBA coach to take two different teams ( 76ers and Pistons ) to the NBA Finals against the same opponent ( Los Angeles Lakers in 2001 and 2004 ), lose the first time, and win the second.

Later, with the final game against the Warriors the players are looking forward to, Lamont tells the team that he received an offer for a 10-day contract from the Philadelphia 76ers and he was going to accept it. This means the Lions must try to win the tournament without their coach.

But Bill Russell's pass struck a wire that hung down from the ceiling and helped support the baskets, the turnover giving the 76ers and Wilt Chamberlain the ball and a chance to win the game — and the series.

Malone famously said " fo ', fo ', fo '"( four, four, four )— in other words, predicting that the 76ers would sweep all three rounds to win the title, with the minimum 12 games.

He notably drained a game-tying buzzer-beater against the Boston Celtics on January 12, 2006, sending the game into triple overtime which the 76ers would eventually win.

He is one of two men to win NBA and ABA championships as a coach ; coincidentally, the other, Alex Hannum, also coached a Chamberlain-led team ( the 1967 Philadelphia 76ers ) to an NBA championship.

* Julius Erving is remembered for playing for the Philadelphia 76ers, the New York Nets and even the Virginia Squires, but his first NBA game was actually for the Atlanta Hawks, for whom he played in an exhibition against the ABA's Kentucky Colonels, in a 112 – 99 win in Frankfort, Kentucky.

On November 24, 2010, Evans pulled down a career high 22 rebounds ( along with 12 points ) in the Toronto Raptors ' 106-90 win over the Philadelphia 76ers.

They beat the Suns and Supersonics in the playoffs and then defeated Julius Erving's 76ers to win the NBA championship, behind an incredible Game 6 performance by the rookie Magic Johnson, who scored 42 points, pulled 15 rebounds, and dished 7 assists, while starting at center for an injured Abdul-Jabbar.