Inside The Numbers: Led By Cleveland And Oklahoma City, It Was The Season Of The Streak In The Nba

It was the year of the long winning streak in the NBA.

There were five instances of teams winning 11 or more games in a row - three by Cleveland, two by Oklahoma City, and it's probably no coincidence that those two teams are the ones that earned No. 1 seeds in the Eastern and Western Conference playoff brackets.

It was the first time since 2017-18 that there were five separate winning streaks of 11 or more games in a season - there were a record 10 in the league that season.

Cleveland, which had winning streaks of 16, 15 and 12 games, became the second team in NBA history to have three streaks that long in the same season. The other was the 2006-07 Dallas Mavericks.

There was a flip side as well, those being losing streaks. Washington had two 16-game slides, the first NBA team have two of those in the same season since Charlotte had runs of 0-16 and 0-23 in the 2011-12 season.