It’s a fact: No team has accomplished as much in the NBA Finals as the Boston Celtics. Los Angeles Lakers fans will disagree, but the Celtics have the most championships of any franchise in one city, they’ve won a far better percentage of Finals than the Lakers have, and Boston owns LA in their head-to-head Finals meetings.
As we brace for a Finals showdown with the Dallas Mavericks, we offer up this historical review of how all 17 championship banners made it to the TD Garden rafters, as well as how others didn’t.