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2021 NBA Finals

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The 2021 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2020–21 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs. In this best-of-seven playoff series, the Eastern Conference champion Milwaukee Bucks overcame a two-games-to-none series deficit to defeat the Western Conference champion Phoenix Suns in six games, winning their first NBA championship since 1971 and ending a half-century long championship drought for not just the Bucks, but the city of Milwaukee in general. Holding home-court advantage, the Suns led the series 2–0 before the Bucks won the next four games, becoming the fifth team in NBA history to win the championship after losing the first two games. Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo was named NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). With the COVID-19 pandemic altering the NBA's schedule for the second consecutive year, the start date of the series was pushed from its usual time in late May or early June to July 6, the second-latest start in Finals' history. This was the first NBA Finals since 2010 to have neither LeBron James nor Stephen Curry as one of the players competing, the first since 1998 to not feature a team from California, Texas, or Florida, as well as the first Finals since 1984 to not feature a teammate of Shaquille O'Neal.