The history of Tar Heels meeting in the NBA Finals
Posted Jul 9, 2021
Rick Fox’s Los Angeles Lakers won the first of their three-straight NBA titles, beating the Indiana Pacers and Sam Perkins. The next year, Fox and the Lakers repeated, this time beating George Lynch and the Philadelphia 76ers. Fox and the Lakers teams from that era have a third entry on this list. In 2004, they lost to Rasheed Wallace and the Detroit Pistons.
(Tar Heel Blog)
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