The Warriors have entered the finals for five consecutive years! The Western Conference champions have been different for 6 consecutive years, for the first time in half a century

The Western Conference Finals this season have come to an end. The Thunder easily defeated the Timberwolves with a big score of 4-1 and successfully won the Western Conference championship. This is also their second time to become the Western Conference champion after 13 years and successfully reached the finals. The Timberwolves stopped in the Western Conference Finals for two consecutive years, failed to win the Western Conference Championship and missed the finals.

It is worth mentioning that after the Thunder became the Western Conference champion, different teams have won the Western Conference championship for six consecutive seasons, namely the Lakers, Suns, Warriors, Nuggets, Mavericks, and Thunder. This is also the first time since the 72-73 season to the 77-78 season, the Western Conference champion has been different for six consecutive seasons after nearly half a season.

In other words, no Western Conference team has been able to break out of the Western Conference for two consecutive years and reach the Finals in the past six seasons. Not only that, the only teams that have reached the Western Conference Finals for two consecutive years in the past six years have been the Timberwolves. Unfortunately, they have not won the Western Conference Championship once. In addition, the Lakers, Nuggets and Mavericks have reached the Western Conference Finals twice during this period, and have also won the Western Conference Championship and reached the Finals. Both the Lakers and Nuggets have successfully won the championship, but only the Mavericks have failed to win the championship.

Interestingly, before that, the Warriors had monopolized the Western Conference championship, rushed out of the Western Conference for five consecutive years, reaching the finals, which is in sharp contrast to the situation in the past few seasons. In those seasons, no team in the Western Conference was the Warriors' opponent. Although the Thunder and the Rockets caused great trouble to the Warriors, unfortunately they were unable to pass this level, so the Warriors were the Western Conference champion for five consecutive years and had never lost to the Western Conference team in the playoffs.

Although the Warriors reached the finals again in 2022 and won the championship, there have been no dynasty teams in the West since the collapse of the Warriors' dynasty, so no team has been able to win the Western Conference championship for two consecutive years. The same situation happened in the East. James personally reached the finals for eight consecutive years, leading the Heat to the Eastern Conference champion for four consecutive years and leading the Cavaliers to the Eastern Conference champion for four consecutive years.

However, since James left the Eastern Conference, no team has been able to become the Eastern Conference champion for two consecutive years. The Eastern Conference champions in the past few years are the Raptors, Heat, Bucks, Celtics, Heat, and Celtics. Although the Heat and Celtics have been regular visitors in the Eastern Conference Finals in the past few seasons and have reached the finals twice, they have not won the Eastern Conference championship for two consecutive years.