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1957 NBA Finals Game 7 · Apr 13, 1957

Boston and St. Louis pushed the Finals to a winner-take-all double-overtime finish in the early years of the shot-clock era.

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Season1956–57→Series matchupCeltics vs Hawks→

Game lineups

Starting fives

Verified starters

Home starting five
Boston Celtics
StarterAPAndy Phillip
StarterARArnie Risen
StarterBRBill Russell
StarterBSBill Sharman
StarterBCBob Cousy
Away starting five
St. Louis Hawks
StarterAHAlex Hannum
StarterBPBob Pettit
StarterCSCharlie Share
StarterCHCliff Hagan
StarterEMEd Macauley

The five starters come from each team’s saved NBA box-score order. Exact positions are omitted because this archive does not reliably provide them.

Before the game

Spoiler-free context

Boston's first Finals trip reached a winner-take-all game against the St. Louis team that had traded Bill Russell's draft rights to the Celtics. The young center already looked transformational, but the franchise had never won a championship.

  • The series was tied 3–3, with the first title in either franchise's history at stake.
  • Boston was building around rookies Russell and Tom Heinsohn while St. Louis leaned on reigning MVP Bob Pettit.

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