"Finals" . . "NBA Finals" . . "Won Finals" . "previous year" . "NBA Championship" . "1987 Finals" . . "the following year" . . "1987" . . . . "over 20 years" . "1987 NBA Finals" . "dispatching the Celtics in six games" . "Lakers enter as the defending NBA champions" . . "sixth time in the 1980s" . . . . "1986-87 NBA Eastern Conference Champions" . . . . "NBA Champions" . "1987 NBA Finals" .