who has won the most basketball championships?
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Boston Celtics center Bill Russell holds the record for the most NBA championships won with 11 titles during his 13-year playing career. He won his first championship with the Boston Celtics in his rookie year.
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NBA Finals: A History The Finals have been a best-of-seven game series since the league changed its named to the National Basketball Association for the 1951 season. A team must win 4 out of 7 games in order to become champion.
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Michael Jordan has won the award a record six times. Shaquille O'Neal is the only player other than Michael Jordan to have won the award three times consecutively.
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The Boston Celtics have retired 21 numbers in their history, which again makes sense because Boston has more NBA championships (17) than any other team.
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The Celtics won eight NBA championships in a row from 1959 to 1966. Their streak is the longest consecutive title run of any professional team in U.S. sports history. The 1996 Bulls have been considered one of the best teams in NBA history.
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Kentucky has the most NCAA tournament appearances (58) and NCAA tournament wins (129). UCLA has the most NCAA men's basketball national championships with 11, including a stretch of seven titles in a row between 1967 and 1973.
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He won the last two championships in 1968 and 1969 as player-coach. Russell's teammate, Sam Jones, won ten championships from 1959 to 1969, the second most in NBA history.
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Boston Celtics center Bill Russell holds the record for the most NBA championships won with 11 titles during his 13-year playing career.
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Boston is the only city that has won a championship in each of the four sports since 2000. Not surprisingly, Boston has the most overall championships in that time. Washington, D.C.
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It's Robert Horry. Winning 7 total rings with the LA Lakers, San Antonio Spurs and the Houston Rockets.
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As of 2016, 46 NCAA tournaments have been held. In that span eleven teams — Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Princeton, North Carolina, Virginia, Cornell, Duke, Maryland, Loyola University (Maryland), Denver and Yale — have won the national title, with Syracuse leading with ten titles (plus one vacated by the NCAA).
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Phil Jackson, (13 NBA championships): Jackson won 11 titles as the coach of both the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers after being a part of two championship teams as a player for the New York Knicks (although he missed the entire 1969-70 season, the year he won his first ring, with a back injury).
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Leading the way with the most appearances in the Final Four is the University of North Carolina with 20. Following their first trip in 1946, the Tar Heels won their first national championship in their second appearance in 1957.
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The Celtics, who appear to be a contender despite significant injuries, have won 17 championships throughout their franchise history. The Los Angeles Lakers come in second place with 16. The Celtics and Lakers stand alone at the top of the NBA.