Claim: The Houston Rockets are a team.

The 1995 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1994 -- 95 National Basketball Association -LRB- NBA -RRB- season . The series pitted the Orlando Magic against the Houston Rockets . The pre-series hype and build-up of the Finals was centered on the meeting of the two centers Shaquille O'Neal of the Magic and Hakeem Olajuwon of the Rockets . Going into the series the matchup was compared to the Bill Russell -- Wilt Chamberlain matchup of the 1960s .   The Rockets became the first team in NBA history to win the championship as a sixth seed . In addition , they became the first team in NBA history to beat four 50-win teams in a single postseason en route to the championship . The Rockets would win a playoff-record nine road games in the 1995 playoffs . It was the second NBA Finals sweep in the 2-3-2 Finals format -LRB- after the Detroit Pistons did so against the Los Angeles Lakers in 1989 -RRB- . The Rockets also became the first repeat NBA Champion in history to keep the title with a sweep . In addition , the Rockets became the first team in NBA history to win the title without having home-court advantage in any of the four playoff rounds since the playoffs was expanded to a 16 team format in 1984 . Coincidentally , this feat would also be achieved by the New Jersey Devils that same year , when they won the Stanley Cup over the Detroit Red Wings .   The Orlando Magic -LRB- making their first ever NBA Finals appearance -RRB- began the 1995 NBA Finals at home , hosting the defending champion Houston Rockets . With the Magic up by three points late in Game 1 , Nick Anderson missed four consecutive free throws in the closing seconds of the game , and Kenny Smith hit a three-pointer , tying the game and sending it to overtime as well as setting a new record with the most three-pointers in an NBA Finals game with seven . The more experienced Rockets went on to win in overtime and eventually swept the Magic , winning their second consecutive NBA Championship . In achieving this , they earned the distinction of being the only team to win both championships during Michael Jordan 's first retirement -LRB- although Jordan did return in the closing months of the 1994-95 season -RRB- , as well as the only one outside Chicago to win multiple championships in the 1990s .   The season-ending documentary Double Clutch by Hal Douglas , was released by NBA Entertainment to coincide with the Rockets ' championship season .