Who Played In The Nba Finals Last Year?
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- The NBA Finals are the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association.
- The Eastern Conference champions play the Western Conference champions to determine the league champion.
- The Golden State Warriors won the 2017 NBA Finals, defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games.
- Kevin Durant was named the Finals MVP.
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 NBA Finals are the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association.
The NBA Finals are the annual 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 winners of the Finals are awarded the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy, which replaced the Walter A. Brown Trophy in 1983.
The series was initially known as the NBA World Championship Series from 1947 to 1982 and as the NBA Finals from 1983 to 1985. It was then renamed the NBA Championship Series from 1986 to 1987, before finally settling on NBA Finals in 1988. Prior to 1947, the playoffs were instituted a three-stage tournament where Eastern and Western divisional winners played each other in the first two rounds, with the winners of those series meeting in a final playoff.
The Cavaliers won the 2016 NBA Finals, their first championship in franchise history, which also ended a 52-year title drought for all teams from Cleveland. The Warriors were defending champions, having won the 2015 NBA Finals.These two teams met again in 2017, with Golden State winning in five games and becoming champions for a second consecutive year.
The Eastern Conference champions play the Western Conference champions to determine the league champion.
The Eastern Conference and the Western Conference are two of the three divisions in the NBA. The Eastern Conference is made up of teams from the Atlantic and Central divisions, while the Western Conference is made up of teams from the Southwest and Northwest divisions. Each conference has three rounds of playoff series, which are best-of-seven games. The winners of each conference’s playoff championship face each other in the NBA Finals to determine the league champion.
The Golden State Warriors won the 2017 NBA Finals, defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games.
The Golden State Warriors won the 2017 NBA Finals, defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games. This was the third consecutive year that these two teams had met in the Finals, with the Warriors winning in 2015 and the Cavaliers winning in 2016.
Kevin Durant was named the Finals MVP.
The Finals MVP trophy is named after former Boston Celtic and Los Angeles Laker Jerry West. Kevin Durant became just the sixth player in NBA history to win the award with multiple teams, joining LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Moses Malone and Shaquille O’Neal. Andre Iguodala was the last player to win the award without being a part of the winning team, doing so in 2015.
