What NBA Teams Are In The Finals?
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The NBA Finals are the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion.
The Eastern Conference Finals
The Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat are in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Celtics are the favorites to win, but the Heat have proved they can compete with the best teams in the NBA. This should be a great series.
The Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as one of the league’s original eight teams. The Celtics play their home games at TD Garden, which they share with the National Hockey League’s Boston Bruins. According to Forbes, the Celtics are the seventh most valuable basketball franchise in the United States, and joint-tenth in the world, with an estimated value of $3.1 billion.
The Miami Heat
The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team based in Miami. The Heat compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Southeast Division. They play their home games at the American Airlines Arena, and are one of the league’s eight original teams.
The Western Conference Finals
The Western Conference Finals are set and it will be the Golden State Warriors taking on the Portland Trail Blazers. This is a rematch of last year’s Western Conference Finals where the Warriors won in four games. The Warriors are the favorites to win again, but the Trail Blazers will be looking to take them down.
The Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, an arena shared with the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball Association, and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA,[8][9] and have won 16 NBA championships,[10] their last being in 2010.
The Denver Nuggets
The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Northwest Division. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA), but changed its name to Rockets before the first season. It changed its name again to the Nuggets in 1974. After the name change, the Nuggets played for the final ABA Championship title in 1976, losing to the New York Nets.
