7 different champion teams were born in 7 years. Who can become a new champion in the NBA semi-finals?

With the Oklahoma City Thunder eliminated the Denver Nuggets 125-93 in the tiebreak, the NBA ushered in a new history: 7 different teams won the championship trophy for seven consecutive years.

The teams that have entered the semi-finals this season are the Thunder, Timberwolves, Knicks, and Pacers. The names of these four teams have not been associated with the NBA championship for a long time, and some teams have never won the championship. The Knicks are the team that has truly won the championship. The last time they won the championship was in the 1972-73 season, when the core of the team was Walter Fraser - the old man is now over 80 years old and is serving as a commentator for the Knicks' home court.

The Thunder have never won the championship since moving to Oklahoma City, but they temporarily inherit the history of the Seattle Supersonics, which won the championship in the 1978-79 season.

Pacers won the championship, but that was still what they did in the ABA league. Since the NBA and ABA merged, the Indiana people have never won the championship.

Timberwolves are the only team among the top four teams this season that has never had any contact with the champion. They started entering the NBA league in the 1989-90 season and reached the division finals at most.

Usually people regard 1980 as the dividing line for the modern NBA, because the league officially introduced the three-point line from 1979-1980. So we can say that this year a brand new champion team will be born in the modern NBA era.

As early as 1975-1980, the NBA once had an era when six different championships were born for six consecutive years. Now, a new history has been written. Under the existing labor-management agreement and competition intensity, it is becoming increasingly difficult for a team to be strong, and the league's championship pattern has become unprecedentedly open.

(text/Thai Fu)