Can you name the NBA Championship winners?

Year	Team Name	Runner Up
1947		Chicago Stags
1948		Philadelphia Warriors
1949		Washington Capitols
1950		Syracuse Nationals
1951		New York Knicks
1952		New York Knicks
1953		New York Knicks
1954		Syracuse Nationals
1955		Fort Wayne Pistons
1956		Fort Wayne Pistons
1957		St. Louis Hawks
1958		Boston Celtics
1959		Minneapolis Lakers
1960		St. Louis Hawks
1961		St. Louis Hawks
1962		Los Angeles Lakers
1963		Los Angeles Lakers
1964		San Francisco Warriors
1965		Los Angeles Lakers
1966		Los Angeles Lakers
1967		San Francisco Warriors
1968		Los Angeles Lakers

Year	Team Name	Runner Up
1969		Los Angeles Lakers
1970		Los Angeles Lakers
1971		Baltimore Bullets
1972		New York Knicks
1973		Los Angeles Lakers
1974		Milwaukee Bucks
1975		Washington Bullets
1976		Phoenix Suns
1977		Philadelphia 76ers
1978		Seattle SuperSonics
1979		Washington Bullets
1980		Philadelphia 76ers
1981		Houston Rockets
1982		Philadelphia 76ers
1983		Los Angeles Lakers
1984		Los Angeles Lakers
1985		Boston Celtics
1986		Houston Rockets
1987		Boston Celtics
1988		Detroit Pistons
1989		Los Angeles Lakers
1990		Portland Trail Blazers

Year	Team Name	Runner Up
1991		Los Angeles Lakers
1992		Portland Trail Blazers
1993		Phoenix Suns
1994		New York Knicks
1995		Orlando Magic
1996		Seattle SuperSonics
1997		Utah Jazz
1998		Utah Jazz
1999		New York Knicks
2000		Indiana Pacers
2001		Philadelphia 76ers
2002		New Jersey Nets
2003		New Jersey Nets
2004		Los Angeles Lakers
2005		Detroit Pistons
2006		Dallas Mavericks
2007		Cleveland Cavaliers
2008		Los Angeles Lakers
2009		Orlando Magic
2010		Boston Celtics
2011		Miami Heat

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NBA Champions Quiz

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Published: June 18th, 2008
Category: Sports
Plays: 84,873

Tags: NBA Quizzes, championship, winner, team, champion

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	drhaase:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 17:26 GMT	2 points
	1971 stumped me for a while

	kevin:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 06:01 GMT	6 points
	58/62 lakers and celtics make it easier than it should be

	Loppy:	Jan 20th, 2009 at 22:50 GMT	4 points
	1971 Milwaukee Bucks was the best

	leakbrewergator:	Jan 29th, 2009 at 21:21 GMT	2 points
	61/62. The Baltimore Bullets are the bain of my existence!

	BelowZero:	Feb 19th, 2009 at 18:23 GMT	3 points
	lol you can get about half by just copying and pasting a certain 2 teams

	sub:	Mar 11th, 2009 at 14:07 GMT	4 points
	61/62 ... 1951 is nearly impossible to guess.

	let_it_go:	Mar 11th, 2009 at 18:30 GMT	2 points
	54/62 ... i have no sense of bball history pre-80s, so everything else was a guess. fun quiz.

	drhaase:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 02:19 GMT	2 points
	its unbelievable how two teams have just dominated this league

	littlekeed:	Apr 20th, 2009 at 04:20 GMT	2 points
	51 Royals is easy when you grew up in Rochester

	mister_pianoman:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 16:03 GMT	-3 points
	51 Royals is easy when you think about the Big O

	Nitram_Odarp:	May 29th, 2009 at 02:37 GMT	3 points
	@mister_pianoman: The Big O didn't come into the league until 10 years later.

	mininimi:	Jun 15th, 2009 at 02:41 GMT	2 points
	jeez update quickly, the lakers won almost two minutes ago, gosh. WOOOOOOOOOOOO YEAH, sorry had to let that out

	GeoExpert:	Jun 15th, 2009 at 17:48 GMT	1 point
	Now, if they can update this they can update "Final 4 Cities"

	JohnJF:	Jun 15th, 2009 at 23:54 GMT	4 points
	63/63. I now can look at the stats, acquired mostly before 2009 was added, and feel like some kind of genius.

	IWANTMY2DOLLARS:	Jun 16th, 2009 at 02:38 GMT	1 point
	The second tier of number answered correctly shouldn't consist of such a broad range (54-62).

	Haunter:	Jun 16th, 2009 at 06:48 GMT	1 point
	YES 63-63 no cheats! (unless copy and paste is cheating). Of course, I only really feel happy about getting the teams that aren't already on here as runners-up.

	zalagreensbury:	Jun 16th, 2009 at 08:34 GMT	1 point
	woot, go lakers...in other related news, I've just been kicked out of new york.

	isestrex:	Jul 13th, 2009 at 00:43 GMT	2 points
	I'm glad I got from '80 to present with little effort. As for the rest... I guess I'll have to study.

	G_MoNeY:	Aug 5th, 2009 at 21:40 GMT	1 point
	It is funny because from 1949-1956 Lakers dominated (5 championships) , from 1957-69 the Celtics dominated(11 championships) then in the 70s it was mixed and in the 80s Lakers (5 championships) had most of them, from 1990-1998 the Bulls dominated (6 championships) from 1999-2009 it has been Lakers and Spurs. ( 4 each)

	G_MoNeY:	Aug 5th, 2009 at 21:41 GMT	1 point
	Got 1978 with 4 seconds left!! 63/63

	omnipotent1:	Aug 23rd, 2009 at 21:05 GMT	3 points
	I just noticed while doing this quiz that on six seperate occasions two teams have met two years in a row with one team winning one year then the other winning the next year.

	kenechi:	Nov 14th, 2009 at 22:32 GMT	2 points
	haha! i just kept guessing celtics and lakers on the ones i didnt know!

	mattrollins:	Jan 26th, 2010 at 21:05 GMT	4 points
	No!!! 62/63... I forgot the Royals, and I'm FROM Rochester. Come on!

	HPUFan:	Aug 31st, 2010 at 04:59 GMT	2 points
	Got all 64, although I had to take a few guesses on some of them.

	ikspuls:	Sep 11th, 2010 at 21:25 GMT	2 points
	yeah i did the copy and paste strategy with the celtics would have got 3 more but i thought st louis and fort wayne were in the eastern conference as well oh well

	ajeliminator:	Nov 18th, 2010 at 04:10 GMT	1 point
	I love basketball! I got 64/64! I'm from Torrance,CA. Rochester Royals is the first one I got.

	nolandavis07:	Nov 29th, 2010 at 20:23 GMT	2 points
	64/64, although '47, '48, '51, '55, and '56 were lucky guesses.

	Ole_Quizzard:	Dec 25th, 2010 at 15:14 GMT	1 point
	got all 64 correct. i've read articles about past nba champions many times in the past. hehe

	ajeliminator:	Feb 27th, 2011 at 05:23 GMT	0 points
	Very good quiz!! But you should really except Sixers, as you did Blazers and Sonics. I like doing this quiz. It keeps the ole' noggin going. :)

	GotYouLookinq:	Jun 8th, 2011 at 00:41 GMT	1 point
	64/64... i used to be able to do this no effort, that was a while ago...

	gammsIam249:	Jun 13th, 2011 at 04:41 GMT	2 points
	mavs!

	teh_DR:	Jun 13th, 2011 at 06:07 GMT	1 point
	LOL Heat! LeBron and Wade still acting like childs in their post-game interviews. The only who was humble enough to admit the Mavs were better was Bosh! The softest guy of the three showed the most heart. Lebron can say whatever he wants about "people wanting to see him fail". Well now, he's just acting like an immature teenager, making his image look worse (if it wasn't enough already) and then coming up with the excuse "well, it's just haters hating on me".

	biv10:	Jun 13th, 2011 at 06:07 GMT	1 point
	64/64. i'm an nba junkie though.

	biv10:	Jun 13th, 2011 at 06:09 GMT	1 point
	65/65 my bad. guess i need some sleep

	Saints09:	Jun 13th, 2011 at 13:52 GMT	2 points
	HAHA heat lost

	mb625:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 21:59 GMT	0 points
	Interesting to find that from 1984 to 2005 only 5 different teams won the title. From 1969 up to '83 almost twice as many teams (9) won the title over a 14 year span.

	hujkiol188:	Jan 18th, 2012 at 20:04 GMT	1 point
	Go Cavs