Pointing out a Factual Error on “Yahoo! Sports”

In researching the Golden State Warriors *nee Philadelphia Warriors) playoffs history on “Yahoo! Sports,” I saw a glaring factual error.

Their record of the then Philadelphia Warriors’ 1962 playoffs indicated a 7 game loss to the Boston Celtics in the “NBA FINALS.”

That is INCORRECT as it was an “Eastern Division” series. The Celtics/Philadelphia Warriors or Philadelphia 76ers (as in Boston vs Philadelphia, as in two eastern cities, as in one of the great NBA rivalries, as in that year Bill Russell vs Wilt Chamberlain) has never been a final.

It bothers me to see that, but nowhere near as much as when in 1991, broadcasting the NBA, the esteemed Dick Enberg (I like Enberg, certainly compared to today’s announcers) called a Boston/Philadelphia NBA series a final. Doesn’t or didn’t he have any sense of NBA history?!!!

Click here to see the Yahoo! Sports Page with the mistake (Hopefully they will correct it soon).

Not an “NBA Final”–it was an Eastern Division Series.