List of NBA champions
This is a list of franchises that have won the championship series of the NBA (Basketball Association of America (BAA) from 1946-49). All series are in best-of-seven format and has been consistently contested between the winners of the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference (Divisions pre-1970), except in 1950 in which the Eastern Division champion faced the winner between the Western and Central Division champions.
The home-and-away format was in a 2-2-1-1-1 format (that is, the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in Games 1, 2, 5 and 7) until 1985 (except 1953-55, 1975 and 1978, the latter two in a 1-2-2-1-1 format) when it was changed into a 2-3-2 format (the team with the better regular season record plays on their home court in Games 1-2 and 6-7), although all other playoff series are still in a 2-2-1-1-1 format.[1]
Winning teams since 1984 win the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy, from 1978 to 1983 the Walter A. Brown Trophy, and prior to 1978 they get to keep the Brown Trophy for a year until the next champion is determined. Since 1969, outstanding players in the Finals win the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award a smaller version of the O'Brien Trophy, with two designs: prior to 2005 it was identical with the championship trophy, only that it was colored black; from 2005 onwards, it was a gold-plated miniature version of the O'Brien Trophy.
Key
Winning team of the NBA Finals.
Bold text | Winning team of the NBA Finals. |
* | Tied the best regular season standing for that season. |
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BAA champions
Year | Western Champion | Result | Eastern Champion | Reference |
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1947 | Chicago Stags | 1–4 | Philadelphia Warriors | [2] |
1948 | Baltimore Bullets | 4–2 | Philadelphia Warriors | [3] |
1949 | Minneapolis Lakers | 4–2 | Washington Capitols | [4] |
NBA champions
Template:Fnb Due to the NBA's realignment into three divisions, the team with the best regular season record after the Divisional Finals advance automatically to the Finals while the other two teams face off in another series to determine the other finalist.
See also
References
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