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The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics four games to three, winning Game 7 on the 17th of June, 2010, by a score of 83-79. It was the Lakers' 16th franchise championship and their fifth Finals win in eleven seasons.
Kobe Bryant was named the Finals MVP for the second consecutive year. He averaged 28.6 points per game across the series and scored 23 points in Game 7, including 10 in the fourth quarter, despite shooting just 6 for 24 from the field in the deciding game.
The 2010 NBA Finals was the 12th Finals meeting between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. The Celtics had won nine of the previous eleven matchups. The 2010 series was the most recent Finals meeting between the two franchises as of the 2023-24 NBA season.
Kendrick Perkins, the Celtics starting center, suffered a serious knee injury in the first quarter of Game 6. He was later found to have torn both his PCL and MCL and was ruled out for Game 7, significantly weakening Boston's defense and rebounding ahead of the deciding game.
Ray Allen hit eight of 11 three-point attempts in Game 2, breaking a Finals record for three-pointers made in a single game previously held by Kenny Smith of the Houston Rockets, who set it during Game 1 of the 1995 NBA Finals.
Game 7 drew an average of 28.2 million viewers in the United States, the highest audience for any NBA Finals game since 35.9 million watched the Chicago Bulls defeat the Utah Jazz in the 1997 Finals. The average across all seven games was 18.1 million, a series high for its era.