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The Boston Celtics have won the most championships of any NBA team. Shown are the championship banners hanging in their home arena, TD Garden. The NBA Finals is the championship series for the National Basketball Association (NBA) held at the conclusion of its postseason.
A total of 21 franchises have won the NBA Finals, with the Boston Celtics winning the most recent title in 2024. Boston holds the record for the most championships, having won the Finals 18 times. Boston also won the most consecutive titles, winning eight in a row from 1959 to 1966. The Los Angeles Lakers have the most NBA Finals appearances ...
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The first NBA Finals match-up between the two teams was in 1959 when on April 9, the Boston Celtics swept the Minneapolis Lakers 4–0 for the first sweep in the history of the NBA Finals. [14] This would mark the first Finals loss for the previously dominant Lakers, and the first of eight straight titles for Boston. [15]
The leading scorer in NBA history , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ranks third all-time in Finals points, fifth in rebounds and first in blocks while featuring in the third-most Finals games ever (56).
A series win gave the Celtics their 18th championship, one more than the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in NBA history. [6] Their last win was in the 2008 NBA Finals. This is the Celtics' third Finals appearance where they played a team from Texas, as they previously defeated the Houston Rockets in the 1981 and 1986 Finals. [7] [8]
The NBA Finals will end in six games. Out of the first 76 editions of the NBA Finals — the 77th title series starts Thursday night in Denver when the Nuggets play host to the Miami Heat — the ...