It’s difficult to be more dominant than the Los Angeles Lakers were on their way to the 2020 NBA Championship.
The Lakers entered the Western Conference playoffs as the No. 1 seed and played like it.
After spotting the Portland Trail Blazers Game 1 of the first round series they won the next four games by an average of 15 points per game.
Round two saw the Lakers draw the Houston Rockets, and again LA spotted their opponent a game with a Game 1 loss, just to come back and win the next four consecutive games to advance to the Western Conference Finals. This time the Lakers won every game by double digits en route to the “gentleman’s sweep.”
The Western Conference Finals brought the Lakers their biggest challenge of the playoffs to date, in the form of the Denver Nuggets but again they handled it in five games, this time taking Games 1 and 2, dropping Game 3 and then finishing it off with wins in Games 4 and 5.
Finally it was on to the Finals, LA’s first appearance in the NBA’s championship round in 10 years and they took on the franchise that Jason Kidd’s only championship as a player came against, the Miami Heat. The Lakers got out hot with a dominant Game 1 win and seized control winning Game 2. The middle games of the series were hard fought, with the Heat taking Games 3 and 5, but the Lakers muscled out Game 4 and then finished things off with a big win in Game 6 to clinch the 17th championship in franchise history.
