Who Won The 2001 Nba Finals?
The Los Angeles Lakers won the 2001 NBA Finals, defeating the Philadelphia 76ers four games to one.
The Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers won the 2001 NBA Finals, defeating the Philadelphia 76ers four games to one. It was the Lakers’ first championship since 1988 and their eleventh overall.
The Philadelphia 76ers
The 2001 NBA Finals was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)’s 2000–01 season. The Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers took on the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia 76ers for the championship, with the Lakers holding home court advantage in a best-of-seven format. The series was played under a special 2–3–2 rotation due to its late start so as not to interfere with coverage of the September 11 attacks. It also marked the first time in NBA history that two black head coaches faced each other in the Finals; first-year Sixers coach Larry Brown vs. second-year Lakers coach Phil Jackson.
The Lakers avenged their previous year’s defeat to the Indiana Pacers and won their 12th NBA Championship by sweeping the Sixers 4 games to 0, winning Game 4 in Philadelphia by a score of 108–96. Shaquille O’Neal was named franchise MVP and Finals MVP, becoming only the sixth player in history to win both distinctions in a season (after Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas and Michael Jordan).
