2008 NBA Championship Recap:The most storied
rivalry in basketball will be renewed as the Boston Celtics and
Los Angeles Lakers meet in Boston in the NBA Finals beginning
Thursday night (June 5) in Boston. The Celtics opened as a
3-point favorite with a 193 ½ point total for Game-1 by oddsmakers at
Skytower Sportsbook.
This will be Boston Celtics first NBA Finals appearance since
1987 when they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers, 4-2. In that
series over 20 years ago the battle was between Ervin Magic
Johnson and Larry Bird. The 2008 version of Celtics vs. Lakers
is not short of super-stars either with the likes of Kobe Bryant
and Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. |
Los Angeles Lakers vs. Boston Celtics |
The 2008 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers vs. the
Boston Celtics promises to be a series to remember and it is
from the old school, an instant classic.
In a match up that Lakers fans could only dream of, Kobe Bryant
and company will be taking on the Boston Celtics in the NBA
finals in which will be the 12 time the two teams have met in
the NBA's West vs. East battle!
These two teams have met a total of 10 times in the championship
game with Boston pulling out eight wins to the Lakers two. The
Lakers will attempt to close the gap starting this thursday when
the finals get underway, as Phil Jackson will be going for a
record breaking 10th NBA title as a coach. Ironically he is tied
right now for the most in NBA history with Red Auerbach who
Coached the Celtic to 9 world championships.
The finals will be played in a 2-3-2 format.
L.A. Lakers vs. Boston
Game 1 — Thursday, June 5: Lakers at Celtics, 9 p.m.
Game 2— Sunday, June 8: Lakers at Celtics, 9 p.m.
Game 3— Tuesday, June 10: Celtics at Lakers, 9 p.m.
Game 4— Thursday, June 12: Celtics at Lakers, 9 p.m.
Game 5— Sunday, June 15: Celtics at Lakers, 9 p.m., if necessary
Game 6— Tuesday, June 17: Lakers at Celtics, 9 p.m., if
necessary
Game 7— Thursday, June 19: Lakers at Celtics, 9 p.m., if
necessary
2008 Boston Celtics Beat the LA Lakers
| The Boston Celtics have won the
NBA Championship for the 17th time. Boston Celtics returned to glory
like the great teams before them. The cigars were lit. The green
party rocked. The team was bigger than just its big three. Kevin
Garnett, one of Boston’s Big-3 won his first NBA title and ring and
the scene of the Celtics' title No. 17 left enduring images on a
city and its fans.
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2007 San Antonio
Spurs vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers Recap
The NBA Finals are the most exciting games in all of pro
basketball and this year it's the
San Antonio Spurs vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers. Who will bring
home the title? Can LeBron lift the Cavs over San Antonio or
will Tim Duncan and the Spurs end King James' postseason reign?
The Spurs, are veteran group led by two-time league MVP and
three-time Finals MVP Tim Duncan as well as head coach Gregg
Popovich, in his 12th year with San Antonio compiling a .676
winning percentage and garnering the 2003 NBA Coach of the Year
Award in the process.
The Cavs, are a group of upstarts led by the magnificent LeBron
James and the young coach Mike Brown, once a Popovich assistant,
who has guided Cleveland to a 100-64 mark in his two seasons at
the helm.
2007 NBA Finals Championship Results
| The San
Antonio Spurs go for their fourth NBA title in nine years, a
feat that would qualify them as a NBA dynasty. The San
Antonio Spurs defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 83-82 to win
their fourth NBA Championship. The Spurs swept the series
4-0. Tim Duncan had
24 points, 13 rebounds and five big blocked shots to lead
the San Antonio Spurs to an 85-76 victory over the Cleveland
Cavaliers in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. |
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In Game two, the Spurs
dominated for most of the game, leading by as many as 29 points late in the
third quarter before the Cavaliers made a run in the fourth. But it was too
late for Cleveland and San Antonio came away with a 103-92 victory.
The Spurs took a commanding
3-0 lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers after a 75-72 victory in Game 3.
The rest was history, With an
83-82 escape that broomed away LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers and
completed its first-ever Finals sweep, San Antonio joins an elite group of
teams in NBA history that have won four titles in less than a decade,
slotting in alongside the 1990s Chicago Bulls (six titles in eight seasons),
the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers (five titles and three more trips to the Finals
in that decade), the old Boston Celtics (nine championships in the '60s and
11 in 13 seasons from 1957-69) and the original Lakers in Minneapolis (five
in six seasons from 1949-54). The Spurs are thus one of only four franchises
since the NBA's inception in 1947 to win a championship four times, leaving
them behind only the Celtics (16), Lakers (14) and Bulls (six). |
