The NBA Finals is the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western conference winners play with a best-of-seven game set to ascertain the league champion. The champions of the Finals are given the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy, which replaced the Walter A. Brown Trophy in 1983. The series was initially Called the BAA Finals before the 1949–50 season when the Basketball Association of America (BAA) merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) to form […]