Who Won the 2008 NBA Championship?
The Boston Celtics won the 2008 NBA Championship.
The Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers won the 2008 NBA Championship, defeating the Boston Celtics in six games. This was the Lakers’ first championship since 2002, and their 15th overall. Kobe Bryant was named the Finals MVP.
The Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 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 (NHL)’s Boston Bruins. The Celtics are one of the most successful teams in NBA history; as of 2019, they have won the most championships of any NBA franchise with seventeen, accounting for 24.6 percent of all NBA championships since the league’s founding in 1947.
The 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 2008 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2007–08 National Basketball Association (NBA) season, and the conclusion of the season’s playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeated the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers four games to two in a best-of-seven series, making this Boston’s record 17th NBA championship overall (their first since 1986 and first as an aging “Big Three”). This was also Los Angeles’ NBA Finals appearance without Shaquille O’Neal, their leader during their threepeat from 2000 to 2002. Ray Allen led all scorers with 26 points per game during the series, and was named Finals MVP for becoming only the second player ever, after Michael Jordan in 1992, to win a Finals MVP award with two different teams.
The 2008 NBA Finals were televised on ABC under a contract that spanned 30 years and $2.4 billion dollars.
The Detroit Pistons
The Detroit Pistons were the 2008 NBA Champions. They defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in six games, becoming the first team since the 1990–91 Chicago Bulls to win an NBA Championship by sweeping the first two rounds of the playoffs and then winning each of the next four games by double digits.
