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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 Capitals won the 2015-16 Presidents' Trophy but lost in the conference semifinals for the fifth time in eight years. The Caps were swept by the Red Wings in the 1998 Stanley Cup Final, their only such appearance. Washington has not reached the conference final since.