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The 1990 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1989–90 NBA season. The series pitted the Detroit Pistons (the previous year's champions) against the Portland Trail Blazers. This was the first NBA Finals since 1979 not to involve either the Lakers or the Celtics. The Pistons became just the third franchise in NBA history to win back-to-back championships, joining the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. ==Background== The Portland Trail Blazers last made the NBA Finals when they won the NBA championship in 1977. In between finals appearances, the Blazers made the playoffs every year except 1982, but most of the time were eliminated in the first or second round. During this period the Blazers had excellent draft choices in Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter and Jerome Kersey in addition to game-changing deals such as trading for Buck Williams and Kevin Duckworth. They also made decision that did not pan out as well, such as the ill-fated decision to pick Sam Bowie in the 1984 NBA draft to be the franchise's future at center only to have Bowie, who had missed two full seasons at Kentucky due to injury, break both of his legs and lose almost four full seasons of his career (which eventually led to the Blazers trading Bowie for Williams). But things would soon change when original Blazer Rick Adelman took over the team in 1989. In the 1989–90 campaign, the Trail Blazers posted a 59–23 record, and defeated the Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs, and Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference playoffs. Portland won with gritty defense and rebounding, the aerial highlights of Clyde Drexler and Jerome Kersey, and the deadly outside shooting of Terry Porter and Dražen Petrović. The team was ultimately defeated by the defending champion Detroit Pistons, led by Bill Laimbeer, Joe Dumars, and Isiah Thomas (the Finals MVP after averaging 27.6 points per game, 7.0 assists per game, and 5.2 rebounds per game in the series.) 4–1. For the Pistons, the 1989–90 campaign was almost identical as the year before. While the Pistons would breeze by their first two opponents, sweeping the Indiana Pacers and defeating New York Knicks in five, they would play a grueling seven game Eastern Conference Finals against the Chicago Bulls. Facing each other for the third season in a row, the teams would give each other no road wins, with the Pistons winning the deciding Game 7 93–74. The Pistons won their second straight championship, and Dennis Rodman won Defensive Player of the Year honors. 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「1990 NBA Finals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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