1999–2000 NBA season

The NBA 1999/2000 season was the 54th season of the National Basketball Association. At the regular season total of 29 teams took part. Each team completed 82 games. The eight best each conference qualified for the NBA playoffs. On 19 June, the season ended with the NBA Finals.

The Los Angeles Lakers won the 2000 NBA Finals against the Indiana Pacers 4-2 and took the twelfth time in the long history of the team to the NBA Championship.

Season notes

The 1999/2000 season was the first in which prevented the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers their home games at Staples Center. The Atlanta Hawks (Philips Arena), Denver Nuggets (Pepsi Center ), Indiana Pacers ( Conseco Fieldhouse ) and the Miami Heat ( American Airlines Arena) each played their first games in the new home halls.

The NBA All- Star Game was held in Oakland ( California ), home of the Golden State Warriors. The Western Conference won with 137:126. Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs, and Shaquille O'Neal of the LA Lakers shared the MVP award.

Michael Jordan took over on January 19, the post of President of Basketball Operations for the Washington Wizards.

The Los Angeles Lakers had in the meantime a series of 19 consecutive games won ( February 4 to March 13 ). This was until then the third longest winning streak in the NBA history.

Sean Elliott of the San Antonio Spurs, who received a kidney transplant eight months previously, returned on March 14 in the game against the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA back. He was the first professional athlete who managed a comeback after such an operation. Kevin Johnson also came back during the season out of retirement. After Jason Kidd broke the ankle, the Phoenix Suns replacement on the point guard position needed. Johnson played six regular season games and nine playoff games. In the Western Conference semifinal series, the LA Lakers eliminated the Suns and Johnson returned to retirement.

After 16 years, ended the career of Charles Barkley. In October Barkley announced to resign after the season. In the game against the Philadelphia 76ers on December 8, he tore the quadriceps tendon in his left knee and missed the rest of the season. Only for the last game of the season Barkley returned to the NBA hardwood and made in six minutes application time in his last NBA game two points.

End figures

W = Wins, L = Losses, PCT = percentage share of victory, P = behind Division leaders

In parentheses are the rankings in the seedings of the respective Conference playoffs are listed.

Leading the Player Statistics

Play-offs

The first play-off round was played in best- of-five format. All other rounds were best- of-seven series.

Play-off Notes

• The five -year-old Toronto Raptors gave her this season NBA play-offs debut. They lost in the first round against the New York Knicks, however, 3-0.
• The Indiana Pacers moved for the first time in the club's history in the NBA Finals one. Before they reached three times the final series of the Eastern Conference, but they could never win.

NBA Finals 2000

• Shaquille O'Neal of the Lakers was elected Finals MVP.
• It was the first championship for Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, both of which are traded for future Hall of Famers. It was also the first title of the Lakers since their Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul- Jabbar era.
• After an ankle injury in the first quarter of Game 2 Kobe Bryant was sidelined the rest of this section and the entire third game.