The 1959 NBA World Championship Series was the championship series of the 1958–59 National Basketball Association season, and was the conclusion of the 1959 NBA Playoffs. The best-of-seven series was played between the Western Division champion Minneapolis Lakers and the Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics. It was Boston's third trip to the NBA Finals and Minneapolis's sixth. The Boston Celtics swept the Lakers 4–0. That was the start of the skein of the Celtics' eight consecutive championships, from 1959–1966. To date, this is the most recent time that an NBA team from Minnesota appeared in an NBA Finals, as well as the first of two times in NBA history that a team with a losing record made the NBA Finals (the other was in 1981). Series summary Celtics win series 4–0 Team rosters Boston Celtics 6 Russell 14 Cousy 15 Heinsohn 16 Swain 17 Conley 18 Loscutoff 21 Sharman 23 Ramsey 24 S. Jones 25 K. Jones 29 Tsioropoulos Head coach: Auerbach Minneapolis Lakers 14 Foust 16 Garmaker 19 Mikkelsen 21 Leonard 22 Baylor 23 Ellis 30 Hamilton 32 Krebs 33 Hundley 50 Fleming Coach Kundla External links NBA History Finals National Basketball Association Finals NBA NBA April 1959 sports events in the United States Basketball competitions in Minneapolis Basketball competitions in Boston 1950s in Boston 1950s in Minneapolis NBA Finals NBA Finals