1990 NBA Finals
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| Dates | June 5–14 | ||||||||||
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| MVP |
Isiah Thomas (Detroit Pistons) |
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| Television | CBS (U.S.) | ||||||||||
| Announcers | and Hubie Brown | ||||||||||
| Radio network |
ABC Radio Network (national) WCXI (Detroit) |
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| Announcers |
Fred Manfra, Dick Vitale, Earl Monroe (ABC) George Blaha, Fred McLeod, John MacLeod (DET) |
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| Hall of Famers |
Trail Blazers: Dražen Petrović (2002) Clyde Drexler (2004) Pistons: Isiah Thomas (2000) Joe Dumars (2006) Dennis Rodman (2011) Coaches: Chuck Daly (1994) Officials: Earl Strom (1995) Dick Bavetta (2015) Darell Garretson (2016) |
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| Eastern Finals | Pistons defeat Bulls, 4–3 | ||||||||||
| Western Finals | Blazers defeat Suns, 4–2 | ||||||||||
| Game 1: | Hugh Evans, Ed T. Rush, Dick Bavetta |
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| Game 2: | Darell Garretson, Jack Madden, Hue Hollins |
| Game 3: | Jake O'Donnell, Jess Kersey, Joe Crawford |
| Game 4: | Hugh Evans, Mike Mathis, Earl Strom |
| Game 5: | Darell Garretson, Jack Madden, Ed T. Rush |
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.
The 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. Along the way, Portland built a core that would turn the team into title contenders, adding Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter and Jerome Kersey through the draft while signing or trading for players such as Buck Williams and Kevin Duckworth. The addition of Williams cost Portland once-promising center Sam Bowie, whose career had been curtailed by a series of leg injuries after being drafted second overall in the 1984 NBA draft. Early in the 1988–89 season, the Blazers fired head coach Mike Schuler and replaced him with assistant Rick Adelman, who would go on to win over 1,000 regular season games in 23 NBA seasons.
Entering the 1989–90 season with modest expectations, the Trail Blazers surprised the NBA by posting a 59–23 record, good enough for the third seed in the Western Conference. In the playoffs, they swept the Dallas Mavericks in the first round, defeated the San Antonio Spurs in seven games during the second round, and eliminated the Phoenix Suns in six games of the conference finals.
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