List of NBA champions

The National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals is the championship series to the NBA and the end of its postseason. All Finals have been played in a best-of-seven format, and are contested between the winners of the Eastern Conference and the Western Convention (formerly Divisions earlier 1970), except in 1950 when the Eastern Division winner confronted the winner between the Western and Central Division champions. From 1946 through 1949, once the league was known as the Basketball Association of America (BAA), the playoffs were a three-stage tournament where the two semifinal winners played in the finals. [1][2][3] The group of this series receives the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy.
The current home-and-away format at the NBA Finals is 2–2–1–1–1 (the group with the better regular-season record plays in their home court in Games 1, 2, 5, and 7), which has been used at 1947–1948, 1950–1952, 1957–1970, 1972–1974, 1976–1977, 1979–1984, and 2014–present. It was previously in a 2–3–2 format (the team with the better regular season record plays in their home court in Games 1, 2, 6, and 7) during 1949, 1953–1955, and 1985–2013,[4][5][6][7][8][9] at a 1–1–1–1–1–1–1 format throughout 1956 and 1971,[10][11] and at a 1–2–2–1–1 format throughout 1975 and 1978. [12][13]
The Eastern Conference/Division directs the Western Conference/Division in string won (39–34). The defunct Central Division, when the then existing Eastern Division was upgraded as a convention in existence throughout the 1949 — 50 NBA year when the NBA was divided into three branches and separate from the Central Division made in 1970, won one tournament. The Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics alone possess almost half of those titles, having won a joint 33 of 73 championships. The defending champions are as of 2019.

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