List of NBA champions

have won the most championships of any NBA team. Shown are the championship banners hanging in their home arena, TD Garden. The most recent champions are the Oklahoma City Thunder, who won their first championship since relocating from Seattle in 2008, and their first since 1979 as the Seattle SuperSonics. The Boston Celtics have won the most championships of any team in the league at 18. , the Eastern champions have a 41–38 advantage in NBA titles over the Western champions. The 1949–50 Minneapolis Lakers, who won the NBA Finals, are counted in the Eastern versus Western champions record as they played that sole season in the Central Division before returning to the Western Division. • The first parentheses in the Western champions and Eastern champions columns indicate the teams' playoff seed. The second parentheses indicate the number of times that teams have appeared in an NBA Finals as well as each respective team's NBA Finals record to date. ==Records by franchise==

Eight consecutive • Boston Celtics (–) Three consecutive • Minneapolis Lakers (–) • Chicago Bulls (–) • Chicago Bulls (–) • Los Angeles Lakers (–) Two consecutive • Minneapolis Lakers (, ) • Boston Celtics (, ) • Los Angeles Lakers (, ) • Detroit Pistons (, ) • Houston Rockets (, ) • Los Angeles Lakers (, ) • Miami Heat (, ) • Golden State Warriors (, ) ==Frequent matchups==