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Dates | May 30 – June 13 | ||||||||||
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MVP | Kawhi Leonard | ||||||||||
Television | Canada: English: Sportsnet/Citytv (Games 1, 3, and 5) TSN/CTV 2 (Games 2, 4, and 6) French: RDS United States: English: ABC Spanish: ESPN Deportes | ||||||||||
Announcers | Canada:
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Radio network | ESPN Radio (English (United States)) Golden State Warriors Radio Network (Golden State) Sportsnet 590 The FAN (Toronto) TSN Radio 1050 (Toronto) | ||||||||||
Announcers | Marc Kestecher and Hubie Brown (ESPN Radio) Tim Roye, Jim Barnett and Tom Tolbert (Golden State) Eric Smith and Paul Jones (Toronto) | ||||||||||
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Eastern Finals | Raptors defeated Bucks, 4–2 | ||||||||||
Western Finals | Warriors defeated Trail Blazers, 4–0 | ||||||||||
The 2019 NBA Finals was a championship series in the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2018–19 season. Both teams played in a "best-of-seven" series (one team has to win at least four games). This series began on May 30th and ended on June 13th, with the Raptors winning 4-2.[1] The Toronto Raptors won against the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors. Kawhi Leonard was named the Finals MVP for the second time in his career, after 2014. Both teams had won their conference finals (the Raptors play in the Eastern Conference and the Warriors play in the Western Conference), meaning that they had to face off. This was the first time the Raptors won an NBA Finals and also the first time a Canadian team, and a team outside the United States overall, had won the Finals.[2][3]
The Warriors played in the NBA Finals again. It was their fifth straight time playing in the Finals, and their last until 2022. This was the first time that the Raptors had ever played in the NBA Finals, just 23 years after they joined the league in 1996.
This was the first Finals since 2010 not to include LeBron James who played in the last eight Finals. Of which, he made four each with the Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers.