🏀On April 25, 1965 the Boston Celtics score 42 points on a record 21 field goals in the final quarter of Game 5 to post a 129-96 rout of the Los Angeles Lakers and win their unprecedented seventh consecutive NBA championship. This was the Celtics ninth-straight trip to the finals and their eighth title in their nine trips. The Lakers made it to their third Finals in four seasons after beating Baltimore in six games, though it came at a cost as Elgin Baylor suffered a knee injury that would side