2012 NBA Finals
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| Dates | June 12–21 | ||||||||||
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| MVP |
LeBron James (Miami Heat) |
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| Television |
ABC (U.S.) TSN (Canada) |
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| Announcers | Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy | ||||||||||
| Radio network | ESPN Radio | ||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Durham, Jack Ramsay and Hubie Brown | ||||||||||
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| Eastern Finals | Heat defeated Celtics, 4–3 | ||||||||||
| Western Finals | Thunder defeated Spurs, 4–2 | ||||||||||
| Game 1: | Monty McCutchen, Ed Malloy, Derrick Stafford |
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| Game 2: | Dan Crawford, Tony Brothers, Tom Washington |
| Game 3: | Joe Crawford, James Capers, Ken Mauer |
| Game 4: | Scott Foster, Mike Callahan, Bill Kennedy |
| Game 5: | Dan Crawford, Monty McCutchen, Derrick Stafford |
The 2012 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2011–12 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat defeated the Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to 1 to win their second NBA title. Heat forward LeBron James was named the Finals MVP.
This marked the fourth time in franchise history that the Oklahoma City Thunder appeared in the NBA Finals, and the first time since the Seattle SuperSonics relocated from Seattle, Washington to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2008. The franchise had previously appeared as the SuperSonics in 1996. It also marked the Miami Heat's third appearance in the NBA Finals. The Heat previously appeared in 2006 and 2011, both times against the Dallas Mavericks.
It was the first NBA Finals in 13 seasons that was not held in either the states of California or Texas; the 3 teams that won the previous 12 Western Conference titles the Dallas Mavericks, the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs were eliminated by this season's Western Conference champion, the Oklahoma City Thunder, in that order.
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