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The 2020 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2019–20 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs.In this best-of-seven playoff series, the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat, 4–2, winning their first NBA championship in ten years and their record-tying 17th title overall in ...
The 2020 NBA playoffs were the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2019–20 season.The playoffs were originally scheduled to begin on April 18. However, the league suspended the season on March 11, 2020, hours after the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization and after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the viru
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 ...
The Lakers won the series in six games, winning the championship for the first time since the 2010 season. They became the first team since the 2007–08 Boston Celtics to miss the playoffs one season and win a championship the following season. The Lakers also tied the Celtics for the highest-ever number of NBA championship wins with 17.
Four of the Boilermakers’ starters were holdovers from last season’s roster, as was Gillis, the team’s sixth man and a player in his fifth year on Purdue’s campus.
He played 18 seasons in the NBA and was a four-time NBA champion and Finals MVP in 2007 with the San Antonio Spurs. [11] On June 28, 2019, Darren Collison announced his retirement from the NBA. He played for five franchises during his 10-year NBA career. [12] On August 29, 2019, Zaza Pachulia announced his retirement from the NBA. He played for ...
The 2020 NBA Finals did not end until October 11, 2020. [10] Although the start of the 2020–21 NBA season was delayed, [11] it still began 71 days after the prior Finals, as opposed to the usual 100 days or more. [1] The season was condensed with many back-to-back games. [10]
David Thompson wears a national championship ring as members of the N.C. State men’s basketball 1974 national championship team are honored during a halftime ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024 ...