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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.
LeBron James (and technically James Jones, too) just did something nobody has done in 50 years. With the Cleveland Cavaliers' Eastern Conference Finals win over the Atlanta Hawks, LeBron James clinched a bid to the NBA Finals for the fifth straight year. It's been a long time since anybody has done that. Yes, only 10 players in NBA history have been to the NBA Finals in five straight seasons. Eight of them played on the Boston Celtics in the 1960s, and of those, seven are in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a player. The other two players are LeBron James and James Jones.