2021-22 NBA G League Finals
Rio Grande Valley Vipers def. Delaware Blue Coats, 2-0
2021-22 NBA G League Finals result: Rio Grande Valley Vipers def. Delaware Blue Coats, 2-0.
Result
| Team | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | Rio Grande Valley Vipers | 2-0 |
| Runner-up | Delaware Blue Coats |
Finals MVP: Trevelin Queen
Rio Grande Valley's fourth title, completing a perfect 4-0 postseason. Game 1's 145 points is the most scored by a team in G League Finals history, with Queen's 44 points the second-most by an individual in a Finals game.
Games
| Game | Date | Result | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game 1 | April 12, 2022 | Rio Grande Valley Vipers 145–128 Delaware Blue Coats | Bert Ogden Arena, Edinburg, Texas |
| Game 2 | April 14, 2022 | Rio Grande Valley Vipers 131–114 Delaware Blue Coats | Chase Fieldhouse, Wilmington, Delaware |
Finals context
The 2021-22 season marked the league's return to something resembling normal operations following the pandemic-disrupted 2019-20 cancellation and the compressed, single-site 2020-21 bubble season, and Rio Grande Valley used the return to full form to capture a fourth franchise championship, extending its lead as the G League's all-time leader in both titles and Finals appearances. The Vipers completed a perfect 4-0 run through the entire postseason, sweeping Delaware in the Finals under head coach Mahmoud Abdelfattah, who was named the league's Coach of the Year that season, with general manager Travis Stockbridge simultaneously honored as Executive of the Year -- giving the Vipers organization a rare sweep of the league's top front-office and coaching honors in the same championship season. Game 1 of the Finals produced a genuinely historic offensive explosion: Rio Grande Valley's 145 points stand as the most ever scored by a team in a single G League Finals game, set in a 145-128 win over Delaware. Guard Trevelin Queen was the singular offensive force behind that outburst, scoring 44 points, the second-most points ever scored by an individual in a G League Finals game, and earning Finals MVP honors for his performance. The game was further notable for a rare statistical double: both Daishen Nix and Anthony Lamb recorded triple-doubles for Rio Grande Valley in the same contest, the first occasion in league history that two players on one team (or, more broadly, in one Finals game at all) had each posted a triple-double. Rio Grande Valley closed out the sweep in Game 2, capping a postseason in which the Vipers did not lose a single game across four rounds, an emphatic statement from an organization that had already established itself, across more than a decade of Houston Rockets-affiliated basketball, as the league's most consistently dominant program. The high-scoring, three-point-centric offensive identity that had defined Rio Grande Valley's championship teams dating back to the 2009-10 season under Chris Finch, and continued under Nick Nurse in 2012-13, reached something close to its logical extreme in this Game 1 scoring record, a fitting exclamation point on the Vipers' fourth title. For Delaware, the runner-up finish, painful as the Game 1 blowout must have been, proved to be only a temporary setback rather than a lasting one: the Blue Coats, the Philadelphia 76ers' G League affiliate, would return to the Finals the very next season, 2022-23, and finally break through for the franchise's first championship, sweeping none other than these same Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the process -- turning a lopsided defeat into the first chapter of an eventual reversal of fortune.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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