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The 1987 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1986-87 NBA season. The match took place between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. The Lakers won 4–2, beating the Celtics in the Finals. The key moment of the series was Magic Johnson's junior sky hook in Game 4. This was the tenth time that the Celtics and Lakers met in the NBA Finals (more than any other Finals matchup) and would also mark the Celtics' last appearance until the two teams met again in 2008. This was the first NBA Championship Series conducted entirely in the month of June. The last time there were no NBA Championship Series games in the month of May was in the 1970-1971 season, when the finals (a four-game sweep that year) ended on April 30. It is also the first NBA Finals series to be conducted on a Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday rotation, which was in use until 1990 and revived since the 2004 NBA Finals; in between the NBA Finals were conducted on a Sunday-Wednesday-Friday rotation. ==Background== The Celtics finished the season with a 59-23 record, topping the Eastern Conference, despite finishing with a sub-par road record and an outstanding 39-2 at home. The Celtics lost backup swingman Scott Wedman to an ankle injury early in the season, but returned to play even better than the previous season. While Bill Walton's frequent foot injuries returned and Kevin McHale played on a broken foot late in the season, but had better stats than the previous season. In the playoffs, the Celtics swept Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, and defeated the Milwaukee Bucks and Detroit Pistons in a pair of seven-game series. The Lakers returned to the NBA Finals and were rewarded with homecourt advantage, besting the Celtics by accumulating a 65-17 record. During the season head coach Pat Riley made an offensive adjustment by assigning guard Magic Johnson as the focal point of the offense, while acquiring Mychal Thompson from the San Antonio Spurs before the trade deadline in a successful effort to lessen center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's minutes heading into the post-season. The Lakers swept the Denver Nuggets, then beat the Golden State Warriors in five, before earning another playoff sweep against the Seattle SuperSonics in the conference finals. The first two games would be played in Los Angeles, the next three games in Boston, and the final two games were scheduled to be played in Los Angeles. The Lakers defeated the Celtics four games to two. Game 4 of this series is widely regarded as one of the most exciting in NBA Finals history as it came down to a flurry of activity and multiple lead changes in the final seconds. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1987 NBA Finals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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