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Additionally, both teams in the Finals featured newly built arenas, as the Lakers' Crypto.com Arena and the Pacers' Gainbridge Fieldhouse opened at the beginning of the 1999–2000 NBA season. This was the second time a Finals game was played on a Monday night since the NBA switched to the Wednesday-Friday-Sunday rotation in 1991.
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.
Kobe Bean Bryant (/ ˈ k oʊ b i / KOH-bee; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard , he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Kobe Bryant in 2006. Kobe Bryant was a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for his entire 20-year career. Selected 13th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA draft, Bryant was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac a month later.
The 2000 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1999–2000 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers four games to two.
March 6, 2000: Los Angeles Lakers: Los Angeles Clippers: 123–103 45 24 35 0 0 13 22 [42] Kobe Bryant * (4) February 2, 2009: Los Angeles Lakers: New York Knicks: 126–117 37 19 31 3 6 20 20 [43] LeBron James ^ March 3, 2014: Miami Heat: Charlotte Bobcats: 124–107 41 22 33 8 10 9 12 [44] [45] James Harden ^ January 23, 2019: Houston Rockets ...
The 1999–2000 NBA season was the 54th season of the National Basketball Association. The season began on November 2, 1999, and ended with the Los Angeles Lakers winning the NBA championship, beating the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2 in the 2000 NBA Finals .
Cedric Maxwell is the only Finals MVP winner eligible for the Hall of Fame who has not been voted in. [14] On February 14, 2009, during the 2009 NBA All-Star Weekend in Phoenix , then-NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that the award would be renamed the "Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award" in honor of 11-time NBA champion ...