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The 1999 NBA Finals was the championship round of the shortened 1998–99 NBA season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.The Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs took on the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks for the title, with the Spurs holding home court advantage. [1]
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. The second parentheses indicate the number of times that teams have ...
1999 NBA Finals: San Antonio Spurs over the New York Knicks 4-1. MVP: Tim Duncan. 1999 NBA Playoffs, 1998-99 NBA season, 1999 NBA draft; Eurobasket: Italy 64, Spain 56; Women WNBA Finals: Houston Comets over the New York Liberty 2-1. MVP: Cynthia Cooper. 1999 WNBA Playoffs, 1999 WNBA season, 1999 WNBA draft, 1999 WNBA All-Star Game; Eurobasket ...
The 1998–99 NBA season was the 53rd season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Due to a lockout, the season did not start until February 5, 1999, after a new six-year collective bargaining agreement was reached between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association.
The 1999 Knicks and the 2023 Miami Heat are the only eighth seeded teams (as of 2023) to advance past the conference semifinals. After losing to the Knicks, the Hawks did not return to the playoffs until 2008. This was the last NBA postseason to feature back–to–backs in the conference semifinals until 2012.
The 1999 National Championship team was recognized during halftime of the NCAA women’s basketball game against the Southern Jags, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind ...
The Spurs reached the 1999 NBA Finals and won their first NBA Championship with a 4–1 series victory over the New York Knicks. Kerr and Frank Saul were the only two players in NBA history to have won three championships with two different teams in consecutive seasons, [ 37 ] [ 38 ] until Patrick McCaw , whom Kerr later coached with the ...
The franchise has won NBA championships in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014. [10] As of the 2022–23 season, the Spurs had the highest winning percentage among active NBA franchises. [ 11 ] As of May 2017, the Spurs had the best winning percentage of any franchise in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada over ...