Who Won the NBA Playoffs?
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The Cleveland Cavaliers are the NBA Champions for the 2015-16 season.
The Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors have won the 2019 NBA Finals, beating the Toronto Raptors in six games. It was a hard-fought series, but the Warriors were the better team. This is the Warriors’ third consecutive NBA Finals victory.
Their Regular Season Record
The Warriors have set the NBA record for the most wins in a regular season with 73, surpassing the previous record of 72 – 10 set by the 1995 – 96 Chicago Bulls. The Warriors also became the first team in NBA history to start the season with 24 straight wins, as well as recording 39 home wins and only losing three games at home throughout the entire regular season.
Their Playoff Record
The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. They are members of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Warriors compete in the NBA as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division. The Warriors play their home games at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, and are currently coached by Steve Kerr.
The Warriors won the 1947 BAA Finals, which was their first ever appearance in the NBA Finals. The team would go on to make nine more appearances in the NBA Finals, winning three championships in 1956, 1975, and 2015. With their recent win in 2018, they became just the ninth team to win four or more titles in NBA history. Their playoff record currently stands at 183-127 (.587), which is good for fourth all-time among teams with at least 20 appearances.
The Cleveland Cavaliers
Their Regular Season Record
The Cleveland Cavaliers finished the regular season with a record of 66-16, giving them the best record in the Eastern Conference and the second best record in the NBA behind only the Golden State Warriors. They won their first ever NBA Championship in 2016, and are looking to repeat in 2017. Although they lost to the Warriors in the Finals last year, they are still considered one of the best teams in the league and are favorites to win the title again this season.
Their Playoff Record
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.[9] 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 Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland.
The Cavaliers have won one NBA championship, in 2016. The franchise has also produced many successful players, including LeBron James, Brad Daugherty, Mark Price, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, and Anderson Varejão.
The Houston Rockets
Their Regular Season Record
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 four Western Conference titles and two NBA championships.
In 1975, the franchise was founded as the San Diego Rockets, an expansion team originally based in San Diego. In 1971, the Rockets moved to Houston due to soaring attendance and game revenue in San Diego. The Rockets won only 15 games in their debut season as a franchise teamed with rookie head coach Tom Nissalke and aged players such as Elvin Hayes and Sergeant Swish (aka Dennis Johnson). Led by head coach Bill Fitch, they improved to 37 wins the next year but missed the playoffs with a 36–46 record.
Their Playoff Record
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. Throughout their history, the Rockets have won two NBA championships and four Western Conference titles. Their most recent appearance and victory was in 1995. The team was founded in 1967 as the San Diego Rockets, an expansion team originally based in San Diego. In 1971, they became the first team untied to defeat an NBA champion when they defeated the New York Knicks in the Western Conference Finals.
In 1975, after four years of mediocrity, the Rockets drafted center Moses Malone with the number one overall pick. Malone went on to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player en route to leading Houston to their first NBA Finals appearance in 1981 against the Boston Celtics. The Rockets repeated as Midwest Division champions the next season but lost in the first round of 1982 playoffs to eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers despite having home court advantage. Despite not making it past the first round again until 1986, they did not miss playoffs for rest of 1980s behind star players such as Hakeem Olajuwon, Ralph Sampson and Vernon Maxwell.
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. They play their home games at the TD Garden, which they share with the National Hockey League (NHL)’s Boston Bruins.
Their Regular Season Record
The Boston Celtics went into the playoffs with a 56-26 record. They were the second seed in the Eastern Conference.
Their Playoff Record
The Boston Celtics hold the record for the most NBA championships, with seventeen wins. They have also made it to the playoffs a total of fifty-one times, which is also a record. In the past three years, they have made it to the Eastern Conference Finals twice and the NBA Finals once.
Who Won?
The answer to that question is the Golden State Warriors. They defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in four games to win their third NBA Championship in four years.
The Finals
The Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion. The winning team of the series receives the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy.
The Championship
The Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors played an exciting finals series, with the Warriors winning in six games.
It was a closely contested battle, with the Raptors winning the first game and the Warriors taking the next two. The Raptors then evened the series with a win in game four, but the Warriors won the next two games to take the championship.
The Warriors were led by their star players, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant, who both played extremely well throughout the playoffs. Curry averaged 26.5 points per game, while Durant averaged 28.8 points per game.
The Raptors were led by Kawhi Leonard, who averaged 27.6 points per game during the playoffs. Leonard was named Finals MVP after averaging 28.5 points per game in the series against the Warriors.
