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The 2010 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2009–10 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs, held from June 3 to 17, 2010. A best-of-seven playoff series, it was contested between the Western Conference champion and defending champion Los Angeles Lakers , Lakers, and the Eastern ...
With a Game 7 win, the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Celtics, who defeated them in the 2008 NBA Finals, to win their 16th NBA Championship. The Lakers also became the third team under the 2-3-2 format to come back from a 3–2 deficit to win the final two games at home (the other two teams being their 1988 team and the 1994 Houston Rockets .
Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder/ Seattle SuperSonics: Rockets, 2–1 1993*, 1997, 2020: 3 Indiana Pacers vs. New York Knicks: Pacers, 2–1 1994, 1995, 2024: 3 Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat: Heat, 2–1 2012, 2022, 2023: 2 Los Angeles/ Minneapolis Lakers vs. New York Knicks: Tie, 1–1 1952, 1970: 2 Los Angeles Lakers vs. Phoenix Suns ...
The 1949–50 Minneapolis Lakers, who won the NBA Finals, are not counted in the Eastern versus Western champions record above as they played in the Central Division. The first parentheses in the Western champions and Eastern champions columns indicate the teams' playoff seed.
This time, the Lakers won the series 4 games to 3 for their 16th NBA title and handed Boston its first Game 7 loss in an NBA Finals in team history. Kobe Bryant won his second consecutive NBA Finals MVP as well as his fifth and final NBA Championship. After the Finals, Bryant underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in July. [4]
Game 7 was the third most-watched game in NBA history, with 28.2 million viewers (No. 1 being Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals, No. 2 being Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals). [141] Game 7 was watched by an average audience of 1.1 million viewers on TSN, making it the largest Canadian audience ever recorded for an NBA game. [ 142 ]
Pat Riley became the first head coach to appear in an NBA Finals game seven with two different teams (Lakers in 1984 and 1988, Knicks in 1994). 2005 [66] San Antonio Spurs: Detroit Pistons: 81–74: SBC Center, San Antonio: Detroit was attempting to repeat as champions, having defeated the Lakers in the prior season's NBA Finals. 2010 [67] Los ...
They beat their own record for most three-pointers made by one team in a single game in NBA history two times with 26 and 27. [182] [183] The Rockets clinched a division title and a playoff berth for a seventh straight appearance. [184] After defeating the Utah Jazz in five games, Houston faced Golden State for the fourth time in five years.