The 1955 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1954-55 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Syracuse Nationals defeating the Western Conference champion Fort Wayne Pistons 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals.
This was the only title for the Nationals under that moniker; the franchise won its next title in 1967 as the Philadelphia 76ers.
For the Pistons, this was their first trip to the NBA Finals in franchise history; they returned the next year, but didn't win their first title until 1989 as the Detroit Pistons.
After experimenting with a round robin playoff format in 1954, the NBA moved to a system in which the top team in each conference earned a first-round bye, giving them the right to start out in the division finals. It remained in place until 1967, when it changed to an eight-team format in which all teams played the first round.
| Division Semifinals | Division Finals | NBA Finals | |||||||||||
| 1 | Fort Wayne | 3 | |||||||||||
| Western Division | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Minneapolis | 1 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Rochester | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Minneapolis | 2 | |||||||||||
| W1 | Fort Wayne | 3 | |||||||||||
| E1 | Syracuse | 4 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Syracuse | 3 | |||||||||||
| Eastern Division | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Boston | 1 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Boston | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2 | New York | 1 | |||||||||||
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