The NBA Finals

The Finals, as they are known today, have been played every year since 1947, and no matter who you’re rooting for, if you watch at all, you can’t help but fall in love with the game of basketball.

This best of seven series has birthed the great dynasties in basketball, as well as some of the games greatest matchups and rivalries through the course of its history. It’s as if the series is a script written for greatness.

The Minneapolis Lakers, in a bit of historical foreshadowing, won 5 of the first 6 championships. That took the basketball public up to the late fifties, when, as if scripted, the Lakers passed the torch to the Boston Celtics, who took it and ran with it.

Titles have changed hands over the years, but whether its Steve Nash and the Suns one year or the advent of the Jordan dynasty in Chicago, the Finals are the rare showing of talent, skill, and all out competitiveness that you don’t want to miss.