2000 NBA Playoffs

The 2000 NBA playoffs was the postseason competition of the National Basketball Association's 1999-2000 season. The competition closed with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers crushing the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers 4 amusements to 2. Shaquille O'Neal was named NBA Finals MVP.

The San Antonio Spurs were the bosses going into the playoffs, yet following a season-finishing damage to fourth year star Tim Duncan, were wiped out by the Phoenix Suns in the first round, denoting the first run through since 1987 that a title-winning group did not rehash. They were additionally the principal shielding champion to be wiped out in the first round since the Philadelphia 76ers in 1984.

The Lakers' success was the main title for both O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, both considered future first-poll Hall of Famers, and the principal Lakers title since the 1988. A. C. Green, the main player left from the Lakers' Showtime time, was in the Lakers beginning lineup for this arrangement too.

For the Pacers, it was their first Eastern Conference title after four past appearances in the Eastern Conference Finals; be that as it may, after this season, the group was fundamentally adjusted with key players Dale Davis, Derrick McKey and Mark Jackson moving to different groups and Rik Smits resigning. Amusement 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals was the last diversion Patrick Ewing ever played as a Knick. The 2000 playoffs was the last including the Ewing-drove Knicks, and New York would not win another playoff arrangement until 2013.

The Trail Blazers vanquished the Timberwolves and the Jazz in the initial two adjusts before tumbling to the Lakers in the gathering last. The Trail Blazers would not win another playoff arrangement until 2014.

This current season's playoffs likewise denoted the introduction of the 5-year-old extension Toronto Raptors. For the third straight year, New York dispensed with Miami; it was their fourth successive postseason meeting.