Out of the last 100 NBA playoff Game 7s, the road team has won 22 of them, dating back to a Knicks win over the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the 1973 Eastern Conference Finals.
So it’s not impossible for the Washington Wizards to manage an upset in Game 7 of the conference semifinals series with the Boston Celtics on Monday night. In fact, our Basketball Power Index gives them a 32 percent chance to win, which is better than history would indicate.
The Wizards are trying to end the second-longest Conference Finals drought in the NBA (only the Clippers have gone longer) and advance to that round for the first time since 1979.