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8 NBA Teams That Got Swept In The Finals. The NBA Finals usually feature two of the very best teams in the league unless thereâs some sort of cinderella run. As a result, the biggest games of the year are usually very competitive, leading to long, entertaining seriesâ. On a few occasions that simply hasnât been the case. One team, for a number of reasons, is completely outplayed in those games and is unable to even win one game. Here are the 8 NBA teams who were swept in the Finals.
The Pistons had dominated the Eastern Conference, winning 63 games during the regular season. After sweeping the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks, the Pistons beat the Chicago Bulls in six games, earning a second straight trip to the NBA Finals.In the season before, the Lakers had beaten them in a tough, seven-game series.ollowing the series, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced his retirement at 42, after 20 years with the NBA. Pistons' guard Joe Dumars was named MVP for the series. Before the Lakers won in 2009, the Pistons were the last Finals champion to have been the runner-up the previous season as they were in 1988.