Trophies: How it Looks When NBA Superstars Win Their First Title
Stephen Curry joins championship fraternity.
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Stephen Curry Wins First NBA Title - It took six full seasons before Stephen Curry could taste and savor his first NBA championship. His Golden State Warriors finished the Cleveland Cavaliers in six game of these NBA Finals to win the title. In doing so, Curry joins a laundry list of NBA superstars, who finally earned that coveted title. He and the following ballers will never forget their first time winning it all. —By Mark Lelinwalla(Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
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Magic Johnson - 1980 - Magic Johnson's dominant performance as a rookie in the 1980 NBA Finals will go down as one of the most clutch performance in Finals history. Starting at center, all Magic did was drop 42 points, grab 15 boards and dish out seven assists in the Los Angeles Lakers clinching Game 6 victory. He also won Finals MVP. Not bad for a first time.(Photo: Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
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Michael Jordan - 1991 - Michael Jordan finally overcame the roadblock of the Detroit Pistons, which beat him up and eliminated his Chicago Bulls from 1987-1990, to defeat his rival and go on to win his first of six NBA titles. MJ's first title came in his seventh season.(Photo: AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Tim Duncan and David Robinson - 1999 - It took a young stud named Tim Duncan — then only 23-years-old — to help veteran David Robinson finally win his first title in 1999 after 10 years in the league with the San Antonio Spurs. Robinson would go on to win one more ring with Duncan in 2003, but Duncan wound up winning three more titles.(Photo: Bernie Nunez REUTERS /Landov)
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Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal - 2000 - What made the Los Angeles Lakers 2000 NBA title so special was not only did it usher in a new century, but it brought about a new reign with Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant sitting on top of the league with the first of three titles from 2000-02. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO (Photo: AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
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Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce - 2008 - It took veteran All-Stars Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to come together on the Boston Celtics for each future Hall of Famer to finally win an NBA title in 2008. (Photo: Bill Greene/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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Dwyane Wade - 2006 - Can you say sitting on top of the world? That's how it must have felt for a then 24-year-old Dwyane Wade to lead the Miami Heat to a 2006 NBA Finals win for his first championship. D. Wade also claimed the Finals MVP. (Photo: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
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