Winners
The winning team of the NBA Finals receives the O'Brien Trophy, and has since the Portland Trail Blazers won it in 1977. They were awarded it in conjunction with the original Walter A. Brown Trophy. Each successive champion was awarded a version of this new trophy to keep, and the original, cup-shaped Walter A. Brown Trophy to hold until the next championship. This state of affairs pertained until 1983. The Boston Celtics were the first winner of only this trophy, receiving it in 1984 after defeating the Los Angeles Lakers four games to three. The Los Angeles Lakers have won the trophy ten times; the Chicago Bulls have won it six times and the San Antonio Spurs have won it four times. The Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics have each won it three times and the Houston Rockets and Miami Heat have each won it twice, The Heat is the current team holding it, having won the 2012 NBA Finals.
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“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)