1st Seed Teams That Made the NBA Finals

Summary of how many teams won and lost the NBA Championship after entering the playoffs as the 1 seed, and a full list with all of them one by one with details of year, rival and result of the Finals.

How many 1 seeds have reached the NBA Finals?
89 teams that arrived to the Playoffs as the 1st seed reached the Finals and 27 times both finalists were the number 1 seeds of that season. A total of 62 Finals have had at least one seed 1 on them.

And how many 1 seeds won the NBA Championship?
Of those 89 teams, 50 won the title (56.8%), while the other 38 lost the Finals.

Summary - 1st Seeded Teams

* includes current NBA Finals with champion TBD.

Notes: in multiple years between 1954 and 1972 the Playoffs only had seeds 1, 2 and 3. Seeds are Conference seeds since 1973 and Division seeds previous to that.

1 Seeds that reached the Finals - One by one