The 2010 NBA Finals was the National Basketball Association’s championship series for the 2009–10 season. The best-of-seven playoff was contested between the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers and the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics. The Lakers defeated the Celtics, four games to three, to win the franchise’s 16th NBA championship. This was the first NBA Finals to go the full seven games since 2005 and only the fourth since the NBA Finals returned to a 2–3–2 format in 1985. The Celtics won nine of their previous 11 Finals meetings against the Lakers.
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The 2010 NBA Finals was the National Basketball Association’s championship series for the 2009–10 season. The best-of-seven playoff was contested between the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers and the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics. The Lakers defeated the Celtics, four games to three, to win the franchise’s 16th NBA championship. This was the first NBA Finals to go the full seven games since 2005 and only the fourth since the NBA Finals returned to a 2–3–2 format in 1985. The Celtics won nine of their previous 11 Finals meetings against the Lakers, winning in 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1984, and 2008, while the Lakers won in 1985 and 1987. The NBA Finals were scheduled in the Major League Baseball World Series 2-3-2 seven game format, with the Lakers possessing home-court advantage as a reward for finishing with better regular season record. The 64th edition of the championship series was played between June 3 and June 17, was broadcast on ABC, and was watched by an average of 18. 1 million people. The series was split, with each team winning on the opponent’s court by only a point: The Celtics finished the regular season as the Atlantic Division champion with a 50–32 record. The Lakers reached the Finals by defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Utah Jazz, and the Phoenix Suns in the best-or-seven Western Conference Semifinals. The Boston Celtics became the first team in NBA history to reach the Finals after beating the team with the best record in the league, the Orlando Magic, after the Rockets did it in their championship season of 1995.
On February 1, Kobe Bryant moved past Jerry West into 14th place on the career scoring list on the NBA’s scoring list. He moved past Trevor Trevor Rambis on the list on February 1. He is now the 14th player to reach 14,000 points in the NBA. On March 1, the Minnesota Timberwolves announced that they would be signing Kobe Bryant to a five-year, $60 million contract. The contract is set to begin in the summer of 2013. The deal is the first time that the Lakers have signed a player to a long-term contract with more than one season left to play. The signing of Kobe Bryant is expected to cost the Lakers around $1.5 million. The team has also signed free agent Ron Artest, who was released from his contract with the Los Angeles Clippers in March 2013. This is the second year in a row that the team has signed a free agent to play for the Lakers; the first year was in 2007. The Los Angeles team has won the NBA title three times, in 1985, 1987, and 1988. The last time they won the title was in 1987. This will be the Lakers’ 15th championship, and their 16th championship overall. They won the previous season’s NBA Finals against the OrlandoMagic for the franchise’s 15th title.
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