Baltimore had dethroned the 1969–70 NBA champion New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference finals.
(The Bullets originally started out as the Chicago Packers, an expansion team that began play in 1961–62 before moving to Baltimore in 1963.)
The series was the second (and last) time in NBA history that the teams alternated home games, the other being in 1956.
The series was broadcast by ABC with Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman providing the commentary.
This was the last playoff series broadcast for both Schenkel and Twyman; they were replaced the next season as the lead announcing team by Keith Jackson and Bill Russell, who served two years before ABC lost the national television contract to CBS after the 1972–73 season.