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With the defending champion Warriors losing to the Los Angeles Lakers, the 2023 playoffs marked the fourth straight year where the defending champion was eliminated before the conference finals. The Warriors lost a playoff series to a Western Conference opponent for the first time in the Steve Kerr era (since 2014–15).
The 2023 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2022–23 season and conclusion to the season's playoffs. The best-of-seven playoffs was played between the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat and the Western Conference champion Denver Nuggets. The series started on June 1, and concluded on June 12.
Things to know about the 2023 NBA Finals between the Heat and Nuggets: The full schedule ... The Nuggets finished the regular season with the top record in the Western Conference and the NBA’s ...
The finals were a best-of-3 series from 1949 to 1950, a best-of-5 series from 1951 to 1956, and a best-of-7 series since 1957. The conference finals are currently played in a best-of-7 series like the NBA playoffs and Finals. The two series are played in late May each year after the first and second rounds of the Playoffs and before the Finals.
The 2023 playoffs also marked the first time two teams seeded 7th or lower won a playoff series in a single postseason, and the first time two teams seeded 7th or lower reach the conference finals. The 1956–57 St. Louis Hawks , 1958–59 Minneapolis Lakers and the 1980–81 Houston Rockets are the only teams with losing records (34–38, 33 ...
The Minnesota Timberwolves beat Denver 98-90 on Sunday night to advance to the Western Conference finals. They'll have homecourt advantage in the best-of-7 series with the fifth-seeded Dallas ...
The Timberwolves are into the Western Conference finals for the second time in franchise history after their 98-90 win over the Nuggets on Sunday night in Denver. They'll have homecourt advantage ...
In 2021, the tournament rights were split between TNT and ESPN, with TNT airing all Eastern Conference games, and ESPN all Western Conference games, coinciding with which conference finals each network was airing that year. In 2022 and 2023, TNT aired both 7–8 games, and ESPN aired both 9–10 games, but the rights for the final seed game was ...