Who Won the NBA Championship in 2000?
The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA Championship in 2000. Shaquille O’Neal was named the Finals MVP.
Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA Championship in 2000. This was the franchises first NBA Championship since 1988. Shaquille O’Neal was named Finals MVP.
San Antonio Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. The Spurs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league’s Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home games at the AT&T Center in San Antonio.
The Spurs are one of four former American Basketball Association teams to remain intact in the NBA after the 1976 ABA–NBA merger and are the only former ABA team to have won an NBA championship. The franchise has won five NBA championships, which are tied for fifth-most in both franchise history and history of the four major U.S. professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA). The Spurs have made 22 appearances in the NBA Finals, tied for seventh-most among all teams, and have an NBA-best .737 winning percentage in those appearances; their five Finals wins are second behind only the Golden State Warriors’ six losses during that span.
The Spurs share a fierce rivalry with the Houston Rockets, dating back to when both teams were based in Texas (San Antonio in the ABA and Houston in the rival Continental Basketball Association). Since 1976, they have faced each other eight times in playoff action: they met four times while each team was still based solely within Texas (1981 Conference Finals, 1995 First Round), and again beginning with San Antonio’s first trip to Houston following their move to the Western Conference during the Conferences realignment prior to the start of the 1981–82 season (1981 Conference Semifinals), followed by three more meetings over a span of 19 seasons from 1997–98 to 2015–16). Despite their close proximityand common background—and despite also sharing a common former head coach and general manager in Gregg Popovich—the two franchises have rarely been conference opponents outside of their time as members of opposite divisions within a single conference; they met once before as members of different conferences but belonging to opposite divisions when they played one another during back-to-back nights at home sites on January 8 and 9, 2009.
In addition to their rivalry with Houston, the Spurs also maintain rivalries with other teams; their chief intra-division rivals being Dallas Mavericks and Memphis Grizzlies; however neither matchup carries same weight or importance as when those teams were playoff contenders throughout most of 1990s up until early 2000s or when Dallas was a perennial powerhouse throughout most of 2000s.
Indiana Pacers
The Indiana Pacers won the NBA Championship in 2000.
New York Knicks
The New York Knicks won the NBA Championship in 2000. They defeated the Indiana Pacers in the Finals to win their first title since 1973. The Knicks were led by head coach Jeff Van Gundy and starred players such as Allan Houston, Latrell Sprewell, and Patrick Ewing.
