NBA Finals
Championship Results
Boston Celtics, NBA champs once
again
The Boston Celtics won their 17th NBA
title in relentless fashion, trouncing the L.A. Lakers 131-92 to win the
NBA Finals in six games. It's the Celtics' first title in 22 years,
dating back to the Larry Bird era.
Boston's 39-point win surpassed the NBA
record for the biggest margin of victory in a championship clincher. The
1965 Celtics beat the Lakers by 33 to win the title that year.
These Celtics completed the greatest
one-year turnaround in NBA history. Last season they won just 24 games
and missed the playoffs. This season they won 66 regular-season games
and finished with a playoff-record 13 home wins.
Paul Pierce, who's spent his entire
career wearing Celtic green, was named MVP of the finals. He scored 17
in the clinching win, but averaged more than 21 points in the NBA
Finals.
The other two members of Boston's Big Three, Kevin Garnett and Ray
Allen, each scored 26. |