Los Angeles Lakers Win NBA Championship | HuffPost Sports

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The Los Angeles Lakers have won their 17th NBA championship.

The Western Conference champions beat the Miami Heat 106-93 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, securing their first championship win since 2010.

The Lakers clinched the title after a down-to-the-wire battle at Fridays Game 5, when the Heat staved off elimination in a last-minute win. It comes after a tumultuous 74th NBA season that started almost a year ago. The league was brought to a standstill by the COVID-19 pandemic in March, but restarted in late July in an isolated bubble at Orlandos Walt Disney World.

This historic 2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers! pic.twitter.com/LVmDZ3BB6s

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This historic 2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers! pic.twitter.com/LVmDZ3BB6s
Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) October 12, 2020

LeBron James won his 4th Finals MVP award, making him the first player in NBA history to do so with three different teams.

This season, for James and the Lakers, had it all. And it ended in the only fashion that they deemed would be acceptable, with them back atop the basketball world.

Its the Lakers first time as NBA champions since Kobe Bryants fifth and final title a decade ago. James had 28 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists.

Anthony Davis had 19 points and 15 rebounds for the Lakers, who dealt with the enormous anguish that followed the death of the iconic Bryant in January and all the challenges that came with leaving home for three months to play at Walt Disney World.

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With that, the leagues bubble chapter, put together after a 4 1/2-month suspension of play that started March 11 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is over. So, too, is a season that saw the league and China get into political sparring, the death on Jan. 1 of commissioner emeritus David Stern the man who did so much to make the league what it is and then the shock on Jan. 26 that came with the news that Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others died in a helicopter crash.

The Lakers said they were playing the rest of the season in his memory.

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