# S4 E17: NBA Playoff Trivia — 3-1 Comebacks, Championship Droughts & the Rasheed Wallace Debate | Generations Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/generations-talking-bout-my-sports-6576448/s4-e17-nba-playoff-trivia-3-1-comebacks-championship-droughts-the-rasheed-wallace-debate-generations Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/generations-talking-bout-my-sports-6576448/s4-e17-nba-playoff-trivia-3-1-comebacks-championship-droughts-the-rasheed-wallace-debate-generations.md Podcast: [Generations (Talking 'bout My Sports...)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/generations-talking-bout-my-sports-6576448) Published: 2026-05-09T19:28:48+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mysportsgeneration/episodes/S4-E17-NBA-Playoff-Trivia--3-1-Comebacks--Championship-Droughts--the-Rasheed-Wallace-Debate--Generations-e3j4o86 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/e57de50c/podcast/play/119742150/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-9%2F423823391-44100-2-35cbc9c8a2897.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/generations-talking-bout-my-sports-6576448/episodes/s4-e17-nba-playoff-trivia-3-1-comebacks-championship-droughts-the-rasheed-wallace-debate-generations Duration seconds: 3575 ## Resource NBA Playoff Trivia — 3-1 Comebacks, Championship Droughts & the Rasheed Wallace Debate | Generations New Episode — Premiering Today Jonathan, Steve, and Mark are back together for a full playoff breakdown — and Jonathan has been doing homework. This week it's all hoops, all trivia, and one genuinely heated debate about a Portland Trail Blazers documentary that has Steve and Jonathan on opposite sides of history. 🏀 THE 3-1 COMEBACK QUIZ Since the NBA/ABA merger in 1976, only 13 teams have ever come back from a 3-1 deficit. Two of them just happened in the first round. Can you name all 13 before Jonathan gives the clues? The full list spans from the 1979 Washington Bullets to the 2025 Sixers and Magic, and includes the only team to do it twice in the same year (the Nuggets in 2020), the only Finals comeback in league history (the 2016 Cavaliers, which Steve will not let Jonathan forget), and Doc Rivers making history as the first coach to blow 3-1 leads in back-to-back playoff years. Mark's moment: the 1997 Knicks-Heat Eastern Semifinals, the PJ Brown-Charlie Ward brawl, and a New York Post back page that Mark may or may not have saved for 30 years. 📊 THE CHAMPIONSHIP TRIVIA Which seven franchises have never appeared in an NBA Finals post-merger? Which teams have the most championships? Which franchise won a title in one city and another title decades later in a completely different one? The full rankings from Lakers (17 appearances, 11 titles) down to the Wizards (two Finals appearances, one title, both against Seattle), with stops at the Celtics, Bulls, Spurs, Heat, Pistons, Warriors, Cavaliers, Rockets, Mavericks, Sixers, and Thunder along the way. Also covered: seven franchises that have appeared in the Finals but never won, from the Knicks to the Jazz to the Sun… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/generations-talking-bout-my-sports-6576448/episodes/s4-e17-nba-playoff-trivia-3-1-comebacks-championship-droughts-the-rasheed-wallace-debate-generations/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/generations-talking-bout-my-sports-6576448/s4-e17-nba-playoff-trivia-3-1-comebacks-championship-droughts-the-rasheed-wallace-debate-generations.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.