NBA Franchises with the Most Championships (All Time)
About This Dataset
NBA Franchises with the Most Championships (All Time)
NBA franchises ranked by total championship titles won since the Basketball Association of America merged into the NBA in 1949. The Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers are tied as the most decorated franchises in NBA history — the Celtics' dynasty of the 1950s and 1960s under Bill Russell and Red Auerbach, and the Lakers' sustained excellence across multiple eras in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and through the Showtime, Kobe-Shaq, and LeBron eras, have produced a combined rivalry that defines the history of professional basketball.
Analysis
Boston Celtics heads the table on 18, ahead of Los Angeles Lakers (17) and Golden State Warriors (7) in NBA Championships. 15 separates the highest figure (18) from the lowest (3) in NBA Championships. First and second are separated by 1, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Places 3 to 8 are close together, spanning 7 to 3 NBA Championships.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
🏆
Boston Celtics leads in NBA Championships with 18.
📊
Average NBA Championships: 8 · median: 6.
↔️
Gap: Boston Celtics is 6× larger than Philadelphia 76ers.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- NBA Championships
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
Related Charts
More statistics on similar topics