SPURS WIN 5TH NBA CHAMPIONSHIP

Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobli, and Tony Parker all embraced as they became the winningest trio in NBA playoffs history with a 104-87 win over the Miami Heat to become NBA champions. The Spurs 5th championship comes just 1 year after the Heat denied them that feat.”We wanted to redeem ourselves. I’m just glad we were able to do that,” Parker said.

Lebron James was the highest scorer of the game with 31 points in the loss. “We had a great first quarter, but from that point on they were the better team, and that’s why they’re the champions in 2014,” said James. Kawhi Leonard led the Spurs with 22 points and 10 rebounds becoming the Finals MVP and joins Tim Duncan (’99, ’03, ’05) and Tony Parker (’07) as the only Spurs to win a finals MVP.”I’ve said many times, a day didn’t go by where I didn’t think about Game 6,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said of the turning point in last year’s finals. “So I think, just in general, for the group to have the fortitude that they showed to get back to this spot, I think speaks volumes about how they’re constituted and what kind of fiber they have.”

San Antonio reversed a 16-point deficit and turned it into a 17-point win, a +33 swing which is one of the biggest i’ve ever seen!”They played exquisite basketball this series and in particular these last three games and they are the better team. There’s no other way to say it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

Finals FG percentage all-time.