Who Won The 1985 Nba Finals?
The 1985 NBA Finals was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)’s 1984–85 season, and the culmination of the season’s playoffs. The Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics four games to two.
The Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers won the 1985 NBA Finals, beating the Boston Celtics four games to two. This was the Lakers’ first championship since moving to Los Angeles from Minneapolis in 1960. Earvin “Magic” Johnson was named the Finals MVP.
The Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics won the 1985 NBA Finals, four games to two, over the Los Angeles Lakers. This was the Celtics’ 16th NBA championship. The action in the 1985 Finals is remembered more for what happened off the court than on it.
The Houston Rockets
The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The Rockets 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 Toyota Center, located in downtown Houston. The Rockets have won two NBA championships and four Western Conference titles. The team was established as the San Diego Rockets, an expansion team originally based in San Diego, in 1967. In 1971, the Rockets moved to Houston.
The 1985 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1984–85 NBA season. It pitted the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics against the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers for the title, with Boston having home court advantage because of a better regular season record.
The Celtics won by a margin of four games to two to win their 16th NBA championship, making this their sixth championship in eight years and ninth overall appearance in an NBA Finals since 1957 (when they won their first title). For what would be a record 20th time (and fourth straight), Boston’s Larry Bird was named Finals MVP; he averaged 27 points per game over the course of the series. This win would start a streak of five straight wins by teams from Massachusetts (Boston’s other three wins being in 19867 & 2008; and CSNNE’s rival network ESPN having won 2015). All games were played at Boston Garden.
In terms of closures and cancellations due to COVID-19 pandemic, this was one of several sports events that were affected by it. As such, no spectators were present at any games during these Finals which took place between June 4 and June 19 (a span of 15 days), making it one had longest gaps between playoff games for an NBA champion – something that still stands to this day as no other champion has taken longer than 13 days to win an NBA title since 1985 and none has taken longer than 11 days since 2003 when league resumed using 2-2-1-1-1 format for playoffs following 3-year hiatus due to labor dispute.
