The 2011–12 Oklahoma City Thunder advanced to which championship series against the Miami Heat?
The 2012 NBA Finals
2012 NBA Finals
The 2012 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2011–12 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.
 The Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat defeated the Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to 1 to win their second NBA title.
 Heat forward LeBron James was named the Finals MVP.
2011–12 Oklahoma City Thunder season
The 2011–12 Oklahoma City Thunder season was the 4th season of the franchise's existence in Oklahoma City as a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Thunder continued to build on recent success in previous years by making the NBA Playoffs, defeating and sweeping the defending NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks in the First Round, the Los Angeles Lakers in the Semifinals, and finally, the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals to advance to the NBA Finals.
 Despite winning Game 1 in the NBA Finals, the Thunder would then go on to lose the next four games and the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat.
2012–13 Oklahoma City Thunder season
The 2012–13 Oklahoma City Thunder season was the 5th season of the franchise in Oklahoma City and the 47th in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 After their trip to the NBA Finals, despite losing the Finals to the Miami Heat in five games, the Thunder improved on last season's output, winning 60 games, earning them the top seed in the Western Conference.
 The first round pitted the Thunder against the eight-seeded Houston Rockets, led by James Harden, a former Thunder player.
 Despite a season-ending injury to Russell Westbrook in game 2, the Thunder still managed to breeze past the Rockets in six games, to advance to the next round, where they faced the Memphis Grizzlies.
 The absence of Westbrook, however, affected the Thunder and they would end up losing to the Grizzlies in five games. 2013 NBA Summer League
The 2013 NBA Summer League is a pro basketball league run by the NBA just after the 2013 NBA draft.
 It gives newly drafted players a chance to test their skills against each other, and to give them a feel for professional basketball.
 All 30 NBA teams participated, along with the D-League Select.
 The Miami Heat were the only team to participate in both Summer Leagues.
 It ran from July 7–12 in Orlando and July 12–22 in Las Vegas.
 Jeremy Lamb of the Oklahoma City Thunder was named the Most Valuable Player of the Orlando Summer League.
 Jonas Valančiūnas of the Toronto Raptors went on to be named the Most Valuable Player of the Las Vegas Summer League.
 Ian Clark of the Golden State Warriors was named the Most Valuable Player of the Las Vegas Summer League Championship Game. 2011–12 NBA season
The 2011–12 NBA season, the 66th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA), began with the signing of a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the owners of the 30 NBA teams and the NBA's players.
 The previous CBA, which was ratified in 2005, expired at 12:01 AM EDT on July 1, 2011, resulting in a lockout.
 With the new deal in place, the regular season was shortened from the normal 82 games per team to 66, because of nearly two months of inactivity.
 The season began on December 25, 2011, and ended on April 26, 2012.
 The playoffs started on April 28 and ended on June 21 when the Miami Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of their series, 121–106, winning the Finals, 4–1 and to capture the franchise's second NBA title.
 LeBron James was named both the Regular Season MVP and the NBA Finals MVP. Latavious Williams
Latavious Williams (born March 29, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for Valencia Basket of the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague.
 After graduating from high school, he played with the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA Development League before being drafted by the Miami Heat with the 48th pick in the 2010 NBA draft.
 After the draft, his draft rights were immediately traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the NBA affiliate of the 66ers.
 However, the Thunder did not sign him to a contract and Williams returned to the D-League with the 66ers.
 On February 19, 2015, his draft rights were traded to the New Orleans Pelicans. List of Miami Heat seasons
The Miami Heat are a professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Heat were formed in 1988 as an expansion franchise along with the Charlotte Hornets; as of 2017, they are the only new franchise of the past generation to win any NBA titles.
 The Heat and the Orlando Magic are the two NBA franchises that are located in the state of Florida.
 Since entering the league, Miami has fielded squads that have made the playoffs 19 out of 28 seasons, captured 12 division titles, five conference titles and three NBA Championships.
 They defeated the Dallas Mavericks in the 2006 NBA Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2012 NBA Finals, and the San Antonio Spurs in the 2013 NBA Finals. Chesapeake Energy Arena
Chesapeake Energy Arena, originally known as the Ford Center from 2002 to 2010 and Oklahoma City Arena until 2011, is an arena located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
 It opened in 2002 and since 2008 has served as the home venue of the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Previously, Chesapeake Energy Arena was home to the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 2002 until the team folded in July 2009, and the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz of AF2 from 2004 to 2009 when the team moved to the Cox Convention Center.
 In addition to its use as a sports venue, Chesapeake Energy Arena hosts concerts, family and social events, conventions, ice shows, and civic events.
 The arena is owned by the city and operated by the SMG property management company and has 18,203 seats in the basketball configuration, 15,152 for hockey, and can seat up to 16,591 for concerts. Daniel Hamilton (basketball)
Daniel Hamilton (born August 8, 1995) is an American basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Thunder's NBA G League affiliate, the Oklahoma City Blue.
 He played college basketball for the Connecticut Huskies, and earned second-team all-conference honors in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) as a sophomore.
 After he decided to forgo his remaining two years of college eligibility, Hamilton was selected in the second round of the 2016 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.
 The draft right later was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder. 2010–11 Dallas Mavericks season
The 2010–11 Dallas Mavericks season was the 31st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Mavericks won the NBA Championship after defeating the Miami Heat in 6 games in the 2011 NBA Finals.
 The Mavs playoff run came with a 6-game first round series against the Portland Trail Blazers, a series in which the Mavericks blew a 23-point lead in Game 4, but still won the series.
 In the conference semi-finals, the Mavericks run was motivated with a sweep of the champions of the previous two seasons, the Los Angeles Lakers.
 The series against the Lakers also became the birth of the Mavericks Royal Blue-Out games in the AAC, with almost all fans wearing T-shirts that read "The Time is Now".
 In the Western Conference Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Mavericks won the last 3 games winning by 4th quarter comebacks, to win their second Western Conference Championship, and a trip to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2006, with a rematch against the Heat.
 Following a disappointing Game 1, the Mavericks pulled the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history in Game 2 to even the series at 1 game each.
 After a loss in Game 3, the Mavericks won the last two games in Dallas to take a 3–2 series lead heading to Game 6 in Miami.
 The Mavericks won their first NBA Championship in Game 6 to clinch the first major sports championship in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since the Dallas Stars in 1999, and the first title in Mavericks franchise history.
 The Mavericks are the third team to win an NBA title in the state of Texas, joining the Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs.
 The Mavericks are also the third team to win a major sports championship in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, joining the Dallas Cowboys' five Super Bowl titles and the Dallas Stars' only Stanley Cup, leaving the Texas Rangers as the only team to not win a major sports title in the area, as they have not won the World Series.
 The Mavericks championship parade was held on June 16, 2011 in downtown Dallas.