10 Revenge Championships in NBA History

2017 Finals: Golden State Warriors 4-1 Cleveland Cavaliers

LeBron James (L) Kevin Durant (R)

2016 Finals: Cleveland Cavaliers 4-3 Golden State Warriors

After gloriously blowing a 3-1 lead in the Finals in 2016, the Warriors took things up a notch and taught the rest of the NBA a valuable lesson. Life isn't fair. Smarting from their loss at the hands of the Cavs, the Warriors recruited Kevin Durant to form the granddaddy of all superteams. That didn't stop anyone from taking shots, however.

Throughout the season, we had LeBron trolling Golden State, be it wearing the Ultimate Warrior shirt or the Curry and Klay tombstones and of course a poster of *that block* on Iguodala outside the visitors' locker room.

Both teams crushed the competition to get to the Finals and set up a record third consecutive Finals meeting. The Warriors won the first two games convincingly and Golden State nicked Game 3 with KD hitting the shot of his life over James.

A Cavs win in Game 4 led to talk about the Warriors blowing a 3-0 lead in the Finals, but they handled their business in Game 5 to wrap up the series. Kevin Durant won Finals MVP, which in many people's eyes vindicated his decision to go to Golden State. All in all, revenge was pretty sweet for the Warriors after all the jabs they took over the course of the season.