NBA Finals Winners and Losers by IvixorB

Though he's not likely to make the Hall of Fame, this all-time great role player won seven championships with three different franchises from 1994 to 2008. No player since the 1960s Celtics has won as many titles.

Seven men have won NBA (or BAA) titles as a player and as a head coach for the same franchise (two of them held both roles simultaneously). Name three.

This often-injured Brazilian player continued a long streak of bad luck by losing to the Warriors with the Cavaliers in the 2015 NBA Finals, and to the Cavaliers with the Warriors in 2016.

After winning his first title, Michael Jordan only lost a single playoff series. Which team beat the Bulls in the 1995 Eastern Conference Semifinals before going on to lose to the Rockets in the Finals?

In the first year it was awarded, the Finals MVP went, for the first and so far only time, to a player on the losing team. Which player was it?

As of 2016, which former Celtic and 1981 Finals MVP is the only eligible Finals MVP not to have made the Basketball Hall of Fame?

Despite his impressive stats - he holds the single-game Finals scoring record and averaged 27 PPG in the playoffs over his career - this 1959 Rookie of the Year lost in eight of eight Finals over 12 seasons, giving him the record for most Finals appearances without a championship.

This player sealed the 1997 Finals for the Bulls with a go-ahead jumper in the last seconds of Game 6, later joking that he'd "been carrying [Michael Jordan] all year, so what's one more time?"

Name the player seen here, a seven-time champion with the Lakers whose dominant play forced several rule changes, including the invention of the goaltending rule.

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The oldest franchise in the NBA, the Sacramento Kings also own the longest Finals drought in the league, having last appeared there in a win over the Knicks in 1951. What was the team called at the time (city and team name required)?

Who is the only player to have won Finals MVP with two different teams? One was in 1971, and the other in 1985.

The Lakers are the only team to have been swept in the Finals as the defending champions - once in 1983 and again in 1989. Name either of the teams they lost to.