1988–89 NBA season

The 1988–89 NBA season was the 43rd season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Detroit Pistons winning the NBA Championship, sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals.

Notable occurrences

The Miami Heat and the Charlotte Hornets enter the NBA as the league's 24th and 25th franchises.
Because of this the Sacramento Kings move to the Pacific Division.
The 1989 NBA All-Star Game was played at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, with the West defeating the East 143-134. Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz takes home the game's MVP award.
The Detroit Pistons play their first game at The Palace of Auburn Hills.
The Milwaukee Bucks play their first game at the Bradley Center.
The Sacramento Kings play their first game at ARCO Arena.
TNT begins airing NBA games. They share the cable broadcast rights with sister network TBS.
Michael Jordan records ten triple-doubles in eleven games near the end of the season, but still loses the MVP award to Magic Johnson.
Prior to the season, the first-year Hornets announce that they choose teal as their primary color, which caused a buzz. In the next decade, expansion teams in the other professional sports leagues (most notably the San Jose Sharks of the NHL, the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball, and the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL) further popularized the use of the color.

C - NBA Champions

Note: All information on this page were obtained on the History section on NBA.com