The Massachusetts franchise became champion again after 16 years and surpassed the Los Angeles Lakers as the winningest team in history. Find out how the historical table of titles is.
Ending a drought that dated back to 2008the Boston Celtics They won on Monday by a resounding 106-88 to the Dallas Mavericks of Luka Doncic and they finalized the Finals of the NBA by an aggregate of 4-1.
The franchise of Boston add up like this 18 rings and breaks the tie he maintained with Los Angeles Lakers to once again be the most successful in the history of the North American basketball league. He MVP of the Finals was Jaylen Brownabove Jayson Tatum.
Despite being humiliated on Friday in dallas by 38 points ahead, the Celtics They jumped onto the field determined to take advantage of their second chance and celebrate with their 19,000 fans. Thus, they dominated the game from end to end and won 106-88.
Doncic could not dominate the game like in his exhibition on Friday and Kyrie Irving fell to 15 points on another frustrating night in Bostonwhere he remains enemy number one since his controversial march of the Celtics in 2019.
The green cast was the best team of the entire season and crowned it with the championship, since in the regular phase they finished as number one by harvesting 64 wins and 18 losses in the Eastern Conferencewhile in the Playoffs achievement 16 wins and just 3 falls.
The Celtics They showed that they were a more complete, mature and ready team to take this great leap, after losing the Final two years ago against the Golden State Warriors and being eliminated before the Miami Heat of Jimmy Butler Last season.
The 18th crown of Bostonin 23 Finals played, restores the pride of a franchise that, after dominating the NBA for decades, he had barely hung a champion flag since the last title of the legendary Larry Bird in 1986.
In the entire campaign, Boston finished with 81 wins and 21 losses and thus became one of the 11 teams in the history of the NBA in winning at least 80 percent of the total games of the season.
The historical ranking of NBA champions:
- Boston Celtics (18 titles)
- Los Angeles Lakers (17)
- Golden State Warriors (7)
- Chicago Bulls (6)
- San Antonio Spurs (5)
- Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers and Miami Heat (3)
- Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks and New York Knicks (2)
- Portland Trail Blazers, Dallas Mavericks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Sacramento Kings, Seattle Supersonics (today Oklahoma City Thunder), Atlanta Hawks, Washington Bullets (today Wizards) and Baltimore Bullets (defunct) (1).
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