Miami Heat will play the Denver Nuggets in the NBA finals. The Heat defeated the Celtics in Game 7 in Boston (103-84) Miami is aiming for a fourth title, after those in 2006, 2012 and 2013.
Denver, nicknamed "Mile High City", rises to 1,500 m. It is the seventh time in NBA history that a team has been seeded No. 8 in the finals. In 1999, the New York Knicks, also eighth in the East, had already reached the finals, but then fell to the San Antonio Spurs.