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The 1989 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 1988–89 season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.The series was a rematch of the previous year's championship round between the Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons and the two-time defending NBA champion and Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers.
The 1989 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1988–89 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons defeating the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals. Joe Dumars was named NBA Finals MVP.
They cruised through the playoffs and faced the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals for a second straight year. Dumars was voted the 1989 Finals MVP, after averaging 27.3 points per game during the Pistons four-game sweep of the Lakers.
Finals MVP was on losing team † Only defunct team to win championship Year Western champion Coach ... 1989: Los Angeles Lakers (1) (23, 11–12) Pat Riley: 0–4:
The temptation is to say Jokić is already one of two MVP winners (Magic being the other in the 1989 Finals) in the media voting era who’s been swept out of the playoffs in the same season, as ...
November 4, 1988 – April 23, 1989 April 27 – June 2, 1989 (Playoffs) June 6–13, 1989 (Finals) Number of teams: 25: TV partner(s) CBS, TBS: Draft; Top draft pick: Danny Manning: Picked by: Los Angeles Clippers: Regular season; Top seed: Detroit Pistons: Season MVP: Magic Johnson (L.A. Lakers) Top scorer: Michael Jordan : Playoffs; Eastern ...
Toggle Winners of major team competitions 1988-1989 subsection. 1.1 Men. 2 Player awards ... 2.2 NBA Finals MVP. 2.3 Slam Dunk Contest. 2.4 Three-point Shootout. 3 ...
In the 1988–89 NBA season, Johnson's 22.5 points, 12.8 assists, and 7.9 rebounds per game [48] earned him his second MVP award, [101] and the Lakers reached the 1989 NBA Finals, in which they again faced the Pistons. However, after Johnson went down with a hamstring injury in Game 2, the Lakers were no match for the Pistons, who swept them 4–0.