We all know Pistons won in 1990. And Bulls won 6 in 90s decade. So East Teams won 7/10 championship in 10 seasons at that decade. (Rockets winning 2 and Spurs winning 1)
But who were the western conference champions and how they got it?
SUMMARY (90s WCF)
1990: Blazers Beat Suns (4 - 2)
Drexler Blazers convincingly beat Chambers/Kevin Johnson lead Suns (who upset Showtime Lakers). (Blazers lost against Bad Boy pistons in Finals though.)
1991: Lakers Beat Blazers (4 - 2)
Last run of Magic Johnson Showtime Lakers (without KAJ) beating Drexler’s Blazers to reclaim WCF title.
1992: Blazers beat Jazz ( 4-2)
Drexler Blazers won the west again. Beating Stockton Malone Jazz.
1993: Suns Beat Supersonics (4-3)
Barkley joined suns to create a strong team with Kevin Johnson and others. Beating a very good supersonics team in a very close 4-3 series.
1994: Rockets Beat Jazz (4-1)
Mj retired the first time. So the nba was wide open. Hakeem carried Rockets hard. And they beat Stockton Malone Jazz 4-1. They ended up winning a championship.
1995: Rockets Beat Spurs (4-2)
Rockets again won the west beating David Robinson Spurs. And even winning another championship for back to back. Drexler joined Hakeem on this team.
1996: Sonics Beat Jazz (4-3)
Sonics finally after being upset multiple times previous seasons. Managed to edge Stockton Malone Jazz 4-3.
1997: Jazz Beat Rockets ( 4-2)
Stockton and Malone got their revenge against Rockets back in 1994. Beating them 4 - 2.
1998: Utah Beat Lakers (4-0)
Stockton and Malone won another wcf. Since Kobe Shaq Duo of Lakers were just too young and early thar year.
1999: Spurs Beats Portland (4-0)
David Robinson finally got help in Tim Duncan. Actually Timmy leap frog him as Spurs best player. And they swept Portland in WCF while dominating Knicks in Finals for their first championship of the dynasty to come. (MJ and Bulls were done this season)
NOTES
1991-1993 and 1996-1998 Western Conference Champions lost to MJ’s Bulls as we all know.
1990-1992, it is actually Drexler who were carrying Blazers to 3 straight conference finals. Winning 2. He can’t win a championship though until he joined Hakeem in 1994-1995.
Supersonics were considered a very strong team back then. But they were just getting upset except in 1996 where they ran into 72-10 Bulls. Lol
Stockton and Malone Jazz actually can’t reach Finals until later in 97 and 98. As they always lose to Either Blazers, Rockets, or Suoersonics in early to mid 90s.