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Every NBA champion since 1947 and the teams with the most titles in history

April 8, 2025 7 Min Read
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The battle is on for the NBA Championship with groups competing so as to add to the storied historical past of the affiliation.

The competitors to turn into the 2025 NBA champions is extra intense than ever, with the Boston Celtics aiming to repeat for the Larry O’Brien Trophy. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown led the Celtics to a win over the Dallas Mavericks within the 2024 Finals.

Beneath is a full run down of each NBA champion in historical past, for the reason that very first title was competed for again in 1947.

Picture by Maddie Malhotra/Getty Photographs

No group has been capable of repeat as winners since 2017 and 2018 when the Golden State Warriors‘ dynasty was on the peak. The mid-2010s noticed the Warriors win 4 occasions in 5 years, whereas LeBron James gained championships in three separate years with the Miami Warmth and Cleveland Cavaliers – earlier than including one other in 2020 with the LA Lakers.

  • 2024: Boston Celtics
  • 2023: Denver Nuggets
  • 2022: Golden State Warriors
  • 2021: Milwaukee Bucks
  • 2020: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2019: Toronto Raptors
  • 2018: Golden State Warriors
  • 2017: Golden State Warriors
  • 2016: Cleveland Cavaliers
  • 2015: Golden State Warriors
  • 2014: San Antonio Spurs
  • 2013: Miami Warmth
  • 2012: Miami Warmth
  • 2011: Dallas Mavericks
  • 2010: Los Angeles Lakers
Photo credit should read AFP/AFP via Getty Images
Picture credit score ought to learn AFP/AFP through Getty Photographs

The 200s turned with a stretch of dominance from the LA Lakers, who’re nonetheless the final NBA group to three-peat the championship, successful a trio of titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002, earlier than closing the last decade out with title success, led via all of it by the good Kobe Bryant. Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs additionally established themselves as a power, with three titles.

  • 2009: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2008: Boston Celtics
  • 2007: San Antonio Spurs
  • 2006: Miami Warmth
  • 2005: San Antonio Spurs
  • 2004: Detroit Pistons
  • 2003: San Antonio Spurs
  • 2002: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2001: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 2000: Los Angeles Lakers
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Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images
Picture by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Photographs

The Nineteen Nineties are revered as the wonderful years of basketball, powered by Michael Jordan’s astronomical rise to cultural fame. Jordan powered the Chicago Bulls to 6 NBA titles, taking a break to go away and play skilled baseball in-between, with the Houston Rockets additionally successful again to again titles.

  • 1999: San Antonio Spurs
  • 1998: Chicago Bulls
  • 1997: Chicago Bulls
  • 1996: Chicago Bulls
  • 1995: Houston Rockets
  • 1994: Houston Rockets
  • 1993: Chicago Bulls
  • 1992: Chicago Bulls
  • 1991: Chicago Bulls
  • 1990: Detroit Pistons
Photo by Ken Levine/Allsport/Getty Images
Picture by Ken Levine/Allsport/Getty Photographs

The Eighties are greatest remembered for the ‘Showtime Lakers’ led by the teaching of Pat Riley, and the play of Magic Johnson, James Worthy and co. The Boston Celtics have been their primary opponents, successful three titles in the course of the decade, with 5 for the Lakers.

  • 1989: Detroit Pistons
  • 1988: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 1987: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 1986: Boston Celtics
  • 1985: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 1984: Boston Celtics
  • 1983: Philadelphia 76ers
  • 1982: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 1981: Boston Celtics
  • 1980: Los Angeles Lakers

The Nineteen Seventies noticed eight totally different groups win titles together with the now defunct Seattle SuperSonics. This decade additionally featured the Portland Path Blazers’ solely ever title, and the final time the New York Knicks triumphed, again in 1973.

  • 1979: Seattle SuperSonics
  • 1978: Washington Bullets
  • 1977: Portland Path Blazers
  • 1976: Boston Celtics
  • 1975: Golden State Warriors
  • 1974: Boston Celtics
  • 1973: New York Knicks
  • 1972: Los Angeles Lakers
  • 1971: Milwaukee Bucks
  • 1970: New York Knicks
Boston Celtics' player Bill Russell hooks a shot during the NBA championship's final game in 1960 against the Saint Louis Hawks.
Boston Celtics’ participant Invoice Russell hooks a shot in the course of the NBA championship’s closing recreation in 1960 towards the Saint Louis Hawks.

The Nineteen Sixties have been dominated by the Boston Celtics, who gained eight titles in a row together with 1959. The Philadelphia 76ers broke their historic run in 1967, earlier than the Celtics bounced again with two extra.

  • 1969: Boston Celtics
  • 1968: Boston Celtics
  • 1967: Philadelphia 76ers
  • 1966: Boston Celtics
  • 1965: Boston Celtics
  • 1964: Boston Celtics
  • 1963: Boston Celtics
  • 1962: Boston Celtics
  • 1961: Boston Celtics
  • 1960: Boston Celtics
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The adolescence of the affiliation noticed the Philadelphia Warriors win the inaugural title. The early Fifties additionally noticed wins from many extra groups who’re not recognisable. The Minneapolis Lakers are the franchise we all know as we speak because the LA Lakers, relocated to the town forward of 1960-61.

  • 1959: Boston Celtics
  • 1958: St Louis Hawks
  • 1957: Boston Celtics
  • 1956: Philadelphia Warriors
  • 1955: Syracuse Nationals
  • 1954: Syracuse Nationals
  • 1953: Minneapolis Lakers
  • 1952: Minneapolis Lakers
  • 1951: Rochester Royals
  • 1950: Minneapolis Lakers
  • 1949: Minneapolis Lakers
  • 1948: Baltimore Bullets
  • 1947: Philadelphia Warriors

Essentially the most profitable group in NBA historical past are the Boston Celtics, whereas the LA Lakers comply with simply behind, counting their early titles because the Minneapolis Lakers. The Golden State Warriors’ latest dynasty has made them the third most winningest franchise in historical past, overtaking the Chicago Bulls, who’re but to return shut since Michael Jordan retired.

  • Boston Celtics – 18
  • Los Angeles Lakers – 17
  • Golden State Warriors -7
  • Chicago Bulls – 6
  • San Antonio Spurs – 5

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