Name a team that has won the NBA championship: rare answers

“Name a team that has won the NBA championship” has 21 accepted answers here, and 6 of them (29%) are rare enough for the two deepest tiers. Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls are the Surface answers almost everyone gives.

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Accepted answers: 21
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 6 (29%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 7 answers
First letters: 14 different; D is the most common (3)

🦑 Midnight Zone: 6 answers (29%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 6 answers (29%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 6 answers (29%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 3 answers (14%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

This list has no Abyssal tier, so the Midnight Zone is as deep as it goes: Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards and Baltimore Bullets, worth 85 points each.

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards, Baltimore Bullets

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Dallas Mavericks, Sacramento Kings, Philadelphia 76ers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Atlanta Hawks: St. Louis Hawks
Washington Wizards: Washington Bullets
Sacramento Kings: Rochester Royals
Philadelphia 76ers: Syracuse Nationals, Sixers
Oklahoma City Thunder: Seattle SuperSonics, Seattle Sonics, OKC Thunder
Golden State Warriors: Philadelphia Warriors
Los Angeles Lakers: Minneapolis Lakers

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

Prompts that share answers with this one

Name an NBA team, past or present (21 shared, such as Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Portland Trail Blazers)