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Spurs Celebrate 5th Championship
San Antonio
dominates in
series win
over Miami
(AP) - Tim Duncan, Manu
G in obiliand Tony P arker, the
w in n in g e s t
trio
in
NBA
postseason history, shared hugs.
Players w rapped them selves in
flags from around world, a reminder
that the San Antonio Spurs look
far beyond the border to build
cham pions, as confetti fell from
above.
Painfully denied 12 months ago
by the Miami Heat, this victory
party was worth the wait.
"It makes last year OK," Duncan
said.
The Spurs finished off a dom i­
nant run to their fifth NBA cham ­
pionship Sunday night, ending
the Heat's two-year title reign with
a 104-87 victory that w rapped up
the series in five games.
"We had a great first quarter, denying the Heat's quest for a
but from that point on they were third straight cham pionship. A
the better team, and that's why year after the Spurs suffered their
they're the cham pions in 2014," only loss in six finals appearances
said LeBron Jam es, who led the - a heartbreaking seven-gam e de-
Heat with 31 points and 10 re­ feat - they turned the rem atch into
bounds.
no match at all.
San Antonio erased an early
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Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard had
22 points and 10 rebounds for the
Spurs, who added this title to the
ones they won in 1999,2003/05 and
'07. They nearly had another last
year, but couldn't hold off the Heat,
"I've sajd m any tjm es, a day
didn’t go by where I didn't think
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ju st in geheral, for the group to
h av e the fo rtitu d e th a t th e y
showed to get back to this spot, I
think speaks volum es about how
they're constituted and what kind
o f fiber they have."
Not to m ention tons o f talent,
and perhaps the best coaching in
the game.
"They played exquisite basket­
ball 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.
The Spurs won four titles in
nine years, but hadn't been back
on to p sin c e 2 0 0 7 , m a k in g
Foreigner's "Feels Like the First
Time" an appropriate song choice
after the final buzzer.
Duncan and Popovich have
been here for all o f them, and it
was the fourth for Parker and
Ginobili, who with Duncan are
once again the reigning the Big
Three in the NBA.
Chris Bosh finished with 13
points and Dwyane W ade ju st 11
on 4-of-12 shooting for the Heat.
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