Who Was In The 2012 Nba Finals?

The 2012 NBA Finals were between the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Heat won the series in five games.

The Miami Heat

Lebron James

Lebron James was born on December 30, 1984, in Akron, Ohio. He played shooting guard and small forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2003 until 2010, when he became a free agent and joined the Miami Heat. He helped lead the Heat to an NBA championship in 2012. In 2013, he was named NBA Most Valuable Player.

Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Wade spent the majority of his 16-year career playing for the Heat, winning three NBA championships. He is a 13-time NBA All-Star and eight-time member of the All-NBA Team. He is one of the NBA’s all-time Greatest Players according to LeBron James. In 2010, Wade was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year.

Chris Bosh

When the Miami Heat joined forces with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in 2010, they did so with the intention of winning an NBA championship. And that’s exactly what they did, led by All-Star power forward Chris Bosh. A championship-caliber player himself, Bosh was the perfect compliment to James and Wade, giving the Heat a “Big Three” that was unmatched in the NBA.

Bosh was born in Dallas, Texas, and played his high school basketball at Lincoln High School. He then went on to play one year of college basketball at Georgia Tech before declare himself eligible for the 2003 NBA Draft. Bosh was drafted 4th overall by the Toronto Raptors, and he would go on to spend the first seven years of his career in Toronto.

In Miami, Bosh quickly established himself as one of the best power forwards in the league. He was named an All-Star in each of his first three seasons with the Heat, and he helped lead them to back-to-back NBA Championships in 2012 and 2013. A key part of Miami’s success, Bosh was named to the All-NBA Second Team in 2013 and 2014.

Unfortunately, Bosh’s time with the Heat came to an abrupt end in 2016 when he was diagnosed with blood clots for a second time. He missed the final two months of that season as well as all of the playoffs, and he hasn’t played since. The Heat eventually parted ways with Bosh via amnestied waived him in 2017 after he failed a physical.

The Oklahoma City Thunder

Kevin Durant

The Oklahoma City Thunder are an American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Thunder compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Northwest Division. The team plays its home games at Chesapeake Energy Arena.

The Thunder were formed in 1967 as the Seattle SuperSonics, an expansion team that joined the NBA for the 1968–69 season. The SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008 after a settlement was reached between the management of the SuperSonics and businessmen Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon, who purchased the SuperSonics and Long John Pemberton’s Seattle Group for $350 million. In Seattle, the SuperSonics qualified for the NBA playoffs 22 times, won their division six times, advanced to three NBA Finals, and won the 1979 NBA Championship. In Oklahoma City, the Thunder qualified for their first playoff berth during the 2009–10 season. They also won their first division title as well as their first Western Conference championship that same season. They reached the Finals for a second time in 2012, but lost to Miami 4 games to 1.

TheThunder’s former head coach was Scott Brooks, who was replaced by Billy Donovan in 2015.

Russell Westbrook

Russell Westbrook is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a nine-time NBA All-Star and earned NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player honors in 2015. He is also a two-time Olympic gold medalist and won an NBA championship in 2012 with the Thunder.

Westbrook played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, where he was named a Consensus Second Team All-American his junior year. He was selected with the fourth overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft by the Seattle SuperSonics, who then relocated to Oklahoma City six days later. Westbrook has represented the United States national team twice, winning gold medals in the 2010 FIBA World Championship and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

James Harden

James Edward Harden Jr. (born August 26, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Arizona State, where he was named a consensus All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009. Harden was selected with the third overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. In 2012, he helped lead Oklahoma City to the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Miami Heat in five games.

The San Antonio Spurs

The San Antonio Spurs were in the 2012 NBA Finals. They beat the Miami Heat in seven games. Kawhi Leonard was the Finals MVP.

Tim Duncan

During his time with the Spurs, Tim Duncan has won five NBA championships, been named the NBA Finals MVP two times, and been selected to the All-Star team 14 times. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest players in NBA history.

Tony Parker

Tony Parker is a French professional basketball player who has played for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 2001. He is a six-time NBA All-Star and was named the NBA Finals MVP in 2007. He has also played for the French national team, with whom he won a gold medal at the FIBA EuroBasket 2013.

Manu Ginobili

Manu Ginobili is a shooting guard who plays for the San Antonio Spurs. He was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, and he started playing professional basketball in 1998. Ginobili has played in four NBA Finals with the Spurs, winning three championships. He was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2008, and he has been selected to four All-Star teams.