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The Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers have won the 2020 NBA Championship. This is their first title in a decade, and they did it in style. Led by Finals MVP LeBron James, the Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in six games. It was a dominant performance by the Lakers, who now have 17 NBA titles to their name.

Won the 2020 NBA Championship

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division. They play their home games at Staples Center, an arena shared with the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball Association, and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA, and have won 16 NBA championships, their last being in 2010.

As of 2020, the Lakers are ranked fourth in the NBA by franchise value at $3.7 billion, and first in Forbes’ annual list of most valuable sports teams with a value of $4 billion.

The Miami Heat

Won the Eastern Conference Finals

The Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals, 4–1. The Heat advanced to the NBA Finals for the fourth consecutive year, where they faced the San Antonio Spurs.

The Milwaukee Bucks

Won the Central Division

The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and play at the Fiserv Forum. Former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl was the long-time owner of the team, but on April 16, 2014, a group led by billionaire hedge fund managers Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry agreed to purchase a majority interest in the Bucks from Kohl, pending approval from the NBA Board of Governors. The sale was approved by the board on April 30, and completed on May 15.[8]

The Bucks have won one league title (1971), two conference titles (1971 and 1974), and 13 division titles (1971–74, 1976, 1980–86, 2001). They have featured such noted players as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson, Bob Lanier, Glenn Robinson, Ray Allen, Sam Cassell, Junior Bridgeman, Sidney Moncrief, Jon McGlocklin, Alex English,[9] Marques Johnson,[10] Terry Cummings,[11] Micheal Redd,[12][13] Ervin Johnson,[14] Desmond Mason,[15] Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson,[16][17] Rookie of the Year Award winners Don Smith[18] and Randy Breuer,[19][20][21][22] All-Star Game MVPs Bob Lanier[23] and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.[24][25] Jim Price[26][27]); Aminu Timberlake[28], Robert Traylor[29], Jamal Wilkes[30]; Michael Cooper; Steve Novak; head coach Larry Costello; and head coach Don Nelson. In total they have sent 29 players to the NBA All-Star Game so far.

In 1968 former NBA player personnel director Al Bianchi approached then-NBA commissioner Walter Kennedy about expanding professional basketball into Milwaukee; Kennedy was receptive to the idea but nothing came of it until Bianchi approached him again early in 1968 about purchasing a franchise for $6 million to be added to the league in time for that year’s NBA expansion draft. At his insistence upon vanilla ice cream being included among his stipulations for landing a team there – a demand that initially seemed eccentric until it became public that new Seattle SuperSonics owner Sam Schulman had made similar demands when he had secured an NBA franchise for his city five years earlier – $1 million was also deposited into an escrow account set up to give him good faith capital for both connecting with prospective investors willing to back him financially in taking out a bank loan to complete his purchase of an expansion franchise should he succeed as well as help defray start-up costs once he got one.[31][32][33]:4 On March 18 Kennedy awarded Milwaukee an expansion franchise for $6 million ($39 million today).[34]:23