Who Won The Nba Championships?
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The 2019 NBA Finals are over and the Toronto Raptors are the champions! Here’s a recap of the series and how the Raptors won it all.
2017 NBA Champions
The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! They defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in a four-game sweep, making this their second consecutive title. Congratulations to the Warriors on an incredible season!
The Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division. Founded in 1946 in Philadelphia, the Warriors relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1962 and took the city’s name, before changing its geographic moniker to Golden State in 1971. They played most of their home games at Oakland Coliseum Arena until 1996, when they moved to the then-new Oracle Arena in Oakland. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the team had some success, winning division championships in 1967 and 1976 with teams that included hall of famers Rick Barry and Nate Thurmond.
The Warriors won their first NBA championship since moving to California in 1975, led by rookie player Rick Barry and head coach Al Attles. In 1987, four years after Attles’ retirement, they hired future hall of fame coach Don Nelson, who promptly led them back to playoff contention. During Nelson’s resulting six seasons as head coach (1987–92), he helped turn around a struggling franchise that averaged 21 wins per season during his first three years as coach; they finished with 50 or more wins four times during his tenure and made three trips to the playoffs (1990, 1991, 1992). After owners Frank Fitzgerald and Don Klores purchased the team prior to the 1987–88 season for $31 million from original owners Dan Finnane and Peter Paoli Jr., Nelson’s squad captured their second Western Division title during 1988–89 with a 56–26 record before losing just 2 games shy of matching their conference rival Los Angeles Lakers for best regular season record at 58–24.
In 1991, key players from Golden State’s championship team from 1975 returned including star guard Phil Smith along with head coach Al Attles. However Smith was injured early into his comeback season thus preventing him from truly recapturing his All-Star form from years past. Not having made any significant moves over the offseason to improve their roster outside of signing journeyman small forward Lester Conner, expectations were low going into training camp for most pundits and fans alike who figures that getting back into title contention was highly unlikely due largely to how much depth other top teams such as Portland and Seattle had acquired during that same period. Despite those low preseason projections however Golden State managed to put together one of the more memorable seasons in recent memory becoming one of only three teams ever to win at least 60 games after finishing below .500 just one year prior joining Houston (from 1988-89) and Phoenix (from 1993-94) as those other two squads who have accomplished such a rare turnaround en route on their way to clinching both the Pacific Division title with a 63-19 record while also capturing use first ever 60+ win season before being upset by eventual Finals runner up Indiana Pacers 4 games to 3 despite being seeded higher than them entering that particular series as either a #1 or #2 seed which they would ultimately end up being seeded as when it was all said and done come playoff time that year when it was finally announced officially several months later on following the conclusion of what turned out be one of more thrilling postseasons recent memory up until that point especially given how much parity there seemed be among several teams leaguewide heading into what many people figured would just be another yawn inducing predictable regular season followed by an even more predictable playoffs given how top heavy things appeared be talent wise on paper leading some even go far far enough say that this could possibly end being deems somewhat anticlimactic overall compared everything else we’ve seen take place over past decade or so but boy were those people wrong because what unfolded over next several months turned out be anything but…
The Cleveland Cavaliers
The Cleveland Cavaliers are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team began play as an expansion team in 1970, along with the Portland Trail Blazers and Buffalo Braves. Home games were first held at Cleveland Arena from 1970 to 1974, followed by the Richfield Coliseum from 1974 to 1994. Since 1994, the Cavs have played their home games at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland.
2016 NBA Champions
The Cleveland Cavaliers are the 2016 NBA Champions. They defeated the Golden State Warriors in a hard-fought seven-game series. This is the Cavaliers’ first NBA Championship in franchise history.
The Cleveland Cavaliers
The Cleveland Cavaliers are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team began play as an expansion team in 1970, along with the Portland Trail Blazers and Buffalo Braves. Home games were first held at Cleveland Arena from 1970 to 1974, followed by the Richfield Coliseum from 1974 to 1994. Since 1994, the Cavs have played their home games at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland, which they share with the arena’s primary tenant, the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League. Dan Gilbert has owned the team since March 2005.
The 2016 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2015–16 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the conclusion of the 2016 playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers defeated Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors 4–3 in a rematch of their 2015 Finals matchup; it was also their second meeting in three seasons. Cavaliers forward LeBron James was named NBA Finals MVP for a record third consecutive time after averaging 29 points, 11.3 rebounds and 8.9 assists per game while shooting 54 percent from three-point range en route to his sixth consecutive Finals appearance overall and his seventh straight series victory against Golden State dating back to his time with Miami (2012–2013).
The Warriors entered the 2016 NBA Finals after compiling a 73–9 regular season record; this win-loss record surpassed Michael Jordan’s 72–10 Chicago Bulls as having posted the best season record in NBA history, leading many to dub them as one of greatest teams ever assembled. Golden State had home court advantage for this series since they had a better regular season record than Cleveland; as such, these finals were hosted by Oakland for Games 1 through 6 before shifting over to Cleveland for Game 7.[5] These finals became notable due to both teams’ Durant-led comebacks: down 3–1 in both cases, each rallied back to force a decisive final game; this made it only the fourth time ever that two teams have met twice in three seasons with identical records or better within said seasons including playoff records (the other times were 1950, 1957 & 1958 though none went seven games),and only looks certain to happen more often given today’s shortening length of playoff rounds and more powerful superteams being formed earlier on via free agency signings than ever before which could potentially produce more “dynasties” than there already are now given how imbalanced talent has become throughout all 30 rosters currently due themselves being top heavy while lower tier talent is forced out necessary changes via trades and cuts during offseason periods just so they can stay financially afloat under collective bargaining agreements currently set into place until at least 2023 if not longer should they not be revised or extended sooner before then according new commissioner Adam Silver recently took over from long time former commissioner David Stern who retired back 2014 after exactly 30 years on job overseeing drastic changes that not just saved basketball but made immensely popular worldwide especially internationally helping grow game into global powerhouse it is now where hardly any market goes without its own basketball league or teams representing said market on some level whether its amateur men’s or women’s levels or even pro levels via domestic leagues or even foreign leagues located outside North America which is no longer exclusive home base basketball due expansion overseas where once again game has seen immense growth spurring creation even more leagues teams just about every corner world these days
The Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors are the 2016 NBA Champions! They defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Finals, 4 games to 3. This is the Warriors’ second championship in franchise history; they previously won in 1975.
2015 NBA Champions
The Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors are the 2015 NBA champions. They defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games, winning the title for the first time since 1975. The Warriors were led by Finals MVP Andre Iguodala, who had a stellar series defensively on LeBron James. Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were also key contributors for the Warriors, as they combined to score over 50 points per game in the series.
The Cleveland Cavaliers
The Cleveland Cavaliers are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team began play in 1970 as an expansion team. Their 46-year history has been marked by periods of intense rivalry with the Boston Celtics, whom they met in the Eastern Conference Finals in three consecutive postseasons from 1988 to 1990, and again in 2008. LeBron James, who was drafted by the Cavaliers in 2003 and spent seven seasons with Cleveland before signing with Miami in 2010, returned to the Cavaliers in 2014 as a free agent and led the team to their first NBA championship that same year.
