Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat will face-off in NBA Finals, the first team to reach four wins will be crowned as 2019-20 NBA Champions. NBA confirmed tv schedule for the Finals, abc will broadcast all games. first Game will be on September 30th,Wednesday at 9:00PM ET/6:00PM PT.
Heat and Lakers never met in Finals before, but they are familiar with one other, Heat President Pat Riley coached show time Lakers to four NBA Championships and he played for Lakers for 5 seasons from 1970 to 75.LeBron James played under coach Erik Spoelstra for four-seasons and won two NBA titles with them before going back to Cleveland.
ALL-NBA First team duo LeBron James & Anthony Davis led Lakers to reach finals for the First-time since 2010 season, when Kobe and Pau led Lakers to 16th Championship over archrivals Boston Celtics in the finals.
Lakers path to Finals
Lakers eliminated one of hottest teams in the bubble Portland Trail Blazers by 4-1 in the first-round matchup. In the second round, James Harden & Houston Rockets are victims of Lakers, with the same margin 4-1.Lakers silenced young Denver Nuggets in conference Finals with the same margin 4-1.
Heat Path to Finals
Heat led by Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo swept Indiana Pacers in the first-round before eliminating MVP Giaanis & Milwaukee Bucks in the second round by 4-1.They beat conference finals rivals Boston Celtics in 6 games.
Miami definitely exceeded expectations by reaching NBA finals this year, but they have big challenge ahead of them in the form of LeBron and Lakers. Both Lakers & Heat are well coached teams and their front-offices assembled a great team after missing out the playoffs last season. It will be a interesting series between two really good teams.
