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The Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks four games to one in the 2024 NBA Finals which concluded on June 17. This victory marked the franchise's first championship since 2008 and secured their eighteenth overall title surpassing the Los Angeles Lakers for the most championships in league history.
Jaylen Brown earned the Finals Most Valuable Player award after averaging twenty point eight points five point four rebounds and five assists per game during the series. He received seven of the eleven votes cast by media members while his teammate Jayson Tatum received the remaining four.
Head coach Joe Mazzulla led the Celtics to a sixty-four win eighteen loss regular season record which was the best in the entire league. The team set an offensive rating of 123.2 the highest ever recorded in NBA history and outscored opponents by an average of 11.3 points per game.
Game Five averaged 12.2 million viewers bringing the overall average rating to 5.8 and total audience to 11.31 million. ABC televised the Finals for the twenty-second consecutive year featuring play-by-play announcer Mike Breen alongside analysts Doris Burke and JJ Redick.
Al Horford Kristaps Porziņģis and Neemias Queta became the first Dominican Latvian and Portuguese-born players respectively to win a championship. Al Horford also set a record for most playoff games without an NBA championship before winning one playing 186 games prior to this series.