NBA champions
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NBA Finals
NBA champions
Order by the year the Finals were won. You place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
44
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
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How the NBA Finals champions timeline game works
Here every card is an NBA Finals result, written as the winner over the loser, with the Finals MVP printed underneath. You're ordering the series by the year the title was won. One Finals already sits on the timeline with its year showing. Place each new matchup in a gap before, between or after those already down. Right calls reveal the year; wrong ones still put the series in its real spot but cost you one of three lives.
Dynasties make this deck tricky, because the same franchise wins several titles close together and the matchups start to blur. The MVP line is the strongest clue you get, so think about where that player's career stood. Rematches are the real trap: two teams who met in more than one Finals look identical until you check the name underneath.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 163 times. An average run places 11.2 cards, and 79% of all placements land in the right spot. Only 8 runs have ever placed every card.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Celtics over Suns missed 68% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Celtics over Rockets missed 57% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Knicks over Lakers missed 48% of the time, usually by about 2 places
The safest card is Raptors over Warriors, placed right every time it has come up.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 44 cards you might be dealt, with 16 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Knicks over Lakers Willis Reed, Finals MVP
- Bucks over Bullets Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Celtics over Bucks John Havlicek
- Warriors over Bullets Rick Barry
- Trail Blazers over 76ers Bill Walton
- Bullets over SuperSonics Wes Unseld
- Lakers over 76ers Magic Johnson
- 76ers over Lakers Moses Malone
- Celtics over Lakers Larry Bird
- Lakers over Pistons James Worthy
- Pistons over Lakers Joe Dumars
- Bulls over Lakers Michael Jordan
- Bulls over Trail Blazers Michael Jordan
- Rockets over Knicks Hakeem Olajuwon
- Bulls over SuperSonics Michael Jordan
- Bulls over Jazz Michael Jordan
- Lakers over Pacers Shaquille O'Neal
- Lakers over Nets Shaquille O'Neal
- Spurs over Pistons Tim Duncan
- Heat over Mavericks Dwyane Wade
- Lakers over Magic Kobe Bryant
- Heat over Thunder LeBron James
- Heat over Spurs LeBron James
- Warriors over Cavaliers Andre Iguodala
- Cavaliers over Warriors LeBron James
- Lakers over Heat LeBron James
- Bucks over Suns Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Nuggets over Heat Nikola Jokić
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