2nd Seed Teams That Made the NBA Finals

Summary of how many teams won and lost the NBA Championship after entering the playoffs as the 2 seed, and a full list with all of them one by one with details of year, rival and result of the Finals.

How many 2 seeds have reached the NBA Finals?
39 teams that arrived to the Playoffs as the 2nd seed reached the Finals and 5 times both finalists were the number 2 seeds of that season. A total of 34 Finals have had at least one seed 2 on them.

And how many 2 seeds won the NBA Championship?
Of those 39 teams, 16 won the title (41.0%), while the other 23 lost the Finals.

Summary - 2nd Seeded Teams

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.

2 Seeds that reached the Finals - One by one