1989 NBA Finals

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The 1989 NBA Finals were the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 1988–89 season and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The series was a rematch of the previous year's championship round between the Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons and the two-time defending NBA champion and Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers. This Finals series joined the 1983 NBA Finals as the only two championship series of the 1980s not won by either the Los Angeles Lakers or the Boston Celtics. Every finals series of the decade featured at least one of these two franchises, with the teams facing each other in 1984, 1985, and 1987. The Detroit Pistons' four-game victory marked the second time the Lakers were swept in the finals series during the decade, following their 4–0 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983. During the season, the Lakers won the Western Conference, with Magic Johnson earning his second MVP award. The team swept its first three playoff series against Pacific Division rivals Portland, Seattle, and Phoenix, which resulted in a rematch with the Detroit Pistons in the Finals. The Pistons dominated the Eastern Conference, winning 63 regular season games. After sweeping the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks, the Detroit Pistons defeated the Chicago Bulls in six games, earning a second consecutive trip to the NBA Finals. In the previous season, the Lakers had defeated them in a tough seven-game series. The Pistons won the series in a four-game sweep of the injury-riddled Lakers, capturing the first championship in franchise history and becoming the last of the NBA's "Original Eight" charter teams to win a championship. It marked the first time that a team (the Lakers) had swept the first three rounds of the playoffs, only to be defeated in the Finals. As of 2026,...